The energy efficient choice

Today’s advanced performance PVC windows and doors can deliver significant energy savings. As such they can play a positive role in making homes more sustainable by cutting carbon emissions, not to mention heating bills.

According to the latest research the average UK home produces six tonnes of carbon dioxide every year. Multiply that nationally and you get a total of 83 million tonnes.

The installation of advanced performance windows, for example a C rated window, will save 852kg of CO2 per year, per property – the equivalent of five double decker buses filled with gas - and over a 35 year period this rises to 29.8 tonnes. Fit an A rated window and the carbon saving becomes even higher, even positively adding heat to the property.

And there are also financial savings. Based on current energy prices fitting a minimum performance E rated window compared to an old single glazed window can more than halve the heat loss from a property.

Today's advanced performance windows can even positively add heat to your property through solar gain.

The PVC industry is at the forefront of the development of energy efficient window frames, with more PVC window fabricators registered as supplying C or above rated advanced energy efficient windows than manufacturers with the British Fenestrations Ratings Council than in any other material.   

And while glass remains the most important single factor in window energy efficiency, PVC remains far more thermally efficient than alternative materials.