Hi all, Had the glass replaced in my bathroom casement window by a professional window fitter who tells me that the installation is a success and that the "cosmetic" appearance does not effect the performance of the window and that the window itself is an top quality acoustic glass, silicone bonded with a swiss spacer. I'm not a professional but the glass clearly looks too small, I can clearly see the aluminum spacer (I'm sure this is not a swiss spacer), I can see black tape along the top edge and I'm convinced that it will not perform as well as properly installed glass with the swiss spacer technology. Can you guys let me know your opinion? If a professional window fitter can confirm on the spacer question that would be great! Cheers! Hard to tell in the photo - but that's tape running along the top edge
Don’t pay not measured correctly. Installer needs to try again. swiss technology or not it don’t matter if it’s the wrong size which it is
Doesn't look like Swiss spacer to me. Standard aluminium; Swiss spacers don't have the "dimples" along the length as far as I know. Some (not all) of the aluminium spacers have id marks engraved\stamped on them that are visible. Just looked for this to ensure I wasn't talking nonsense. https://en.swisspacer.com/sites/en....rlays_und_Musik_Englisch_Musik BK_LOW REZ.mp4
No idea whether Swiss or not but it don’t fit. I’m now on to replacing my third sealed unit here and trust me I would not do the job myself like that. It’s worse than amateurish
Hi, Had the glass replaced in my bathroom casement window by a professional window fitter who tells me that the installation is a success and that the "cosmetic" appearance does not effect the performance of the window and that the window itself is an top quality acoustic glass, silicone bonded with a swiss spacer. I'm not a professional but the glass clearly looks too small, I can clearly see the aluminum spacer (I'm sure this is not a swiss spacer), I can see black tape along the top edge and I'm convinced that it will not perform as well as properly installed glass with the swiss spacer technology. Can you guys let me know your opinion? If a professional window fitter can confirm on the spacer question that would be great!
I hope my glass fitter does a better job on my replacement today, mines not swiss, its bog standard spacer same as OP, could have done this myself but I never replaced one before.
My family business manufactures double glazed units. That unit is too small, that's not "acoustic glass", DGU's aren't bonded with silicone and that is an aluminium spacer bar. What you want is a 4/20/4 (guessing the spacer bar size from the images it might be 4/16/4), Low E Glass, Stippolyte Glass and a Warm Edge Spacer Bar. You could also have the unit gas filled for additional insulation. Tell the tradesman to come and sort it out and call him out on his ********!