Reduce Your Energy Usage and Stay Comfortable

In the summer, energy-efficient windows keep the sun's heat outside.

You may not be able to do much about the soaring price of gas, but you can save money in your home by investing in energy-efficient Renewal by Andersen windows from Mr. Rogers Windows. They're scientifically designed to take pressure off your heating and cooling systems, and reduce the energy needed to keep your home comfortable.

According to Green Seal: "If all windows in the U.S. were as energy efficient as those made by Renewal by Andersen, Americans would save up to 2.5 percent of the annual U.S. energy consumption—an estimated 200 gallons of oil for every household in the U.S." Your effort to reduce consumption helps to conserve fossil fuels worldwide and saves you money.

The Science of Energy-Cost Savings

In the winter, energy-efficient windows keep your home's warmth inside.

The most important way energy-efficient windows perform is by keeping heat from passing through your windows. In the summer, this means keeping heat out so your home stays cool, and in the winter this means preventing the heat inside your home from escaping to the outdoors.

One source of heat is radiation. Radiation is the energy that's transferred from the sun in the form of waves we feel as heat. When the sun's energy radiates down on your windows, the outside of the glass is heated, and that heat is transferred through the glass into your home.

The sun's heat passes straight through conventional windows

Mr. Rogers' Renewal by Andersen windows incorporate the latest, energy efficient technologies to help keep energy cost factors like radiation at bay. Take a look and read how some of these technologies help keep your home insulated and your energy costs down:

Two Panes Of Glass

Two panes of glass help block outside heat.

Windows with a double layer of glass help to reduce radiant heat transfer from the sun to the inside of your home. The extra sheet of glass stalls that heat trying to penetrate through your windows, because now it has to pass through the extra space between the panes to get into your home.

Spacer Width

Argon gas, combined with Low-E coatings, provides the greatest energy-benefits.

An air space left between glass panes helps to reduce the passage of heat through your windows. The space between the two panes of glass can be too wide or too narrow to provide you with the most energy benefit. Through years of testing, Andersen has determined the optimum space for maximum efficiency.

Argon Gas Fill

Low-E coatings work to seriously increase energy efficiency.

Argon gas is an invisible, nontoxic, odorless gas that's injected into the space between the panes. While regular air is easily affected by heat, argon is considerably denser than air. The weight of this gas dramatically reduces the amount of heat that can pass through the space between the panes of glass.

Warm Edge Low Conductance Spacer

Spacers are built into the window to maintain the measured space between the glass panes and help stabilize the structure of the window. It's important that the spacer material conducts as little heat energy as possible from one pane to the other. Stainless steel is strong, durable, and the top choice for insulating performance when it comes to your windows.

Low-E Coating

Windows must maintain airtight seals or risk ruining their energy efficiency.

Low-E (low-emissivity) is a thin layer of transparent metallic material that's applied to window glass for insulating purposes. Renewal by Andersen windows from Mr. Rogers have 9 layers of metallic materials, like silver, applied in a micro-thin layer, followed by 2 layers of titanium dioxide to help make cleaning easier.

The Low-E coating helps to prevent heat gain (or loss) in your home by acting as a kind of reflective shield, pushing radiant heat that tries to pass through the glass back to the source it originates from. In the summer the Low-E coating reflects the sun's heat away from your home, helping to keep the indoors cool. When winter comes around, the metallic coating holds warm air generated in your house inside, preventing your home's from escaping out through the glass.

By keeping hot air out during the summer and warm air in during the winter, Low-E coatings give you more control over your comfort and save you money on energy bills. Low-E coatings are one of the most important elements in making windows energy efficient.

Heat Deflection Characteristics

The Andersen FIBREX window material is an integral part of how Mr. Rogers' windows keep your home well-insulated and well-protected against heat gain and heat loss. FIBREX deflects temperatures of up to 221 degrees F. With extreme temperatures in the summer, the sun can heat the exterior surface of your home up to 175 degrees. FIBREX provides you with the heat tolerance you require to perform effortlessly in summer's blazing heat.

Low Thermal Movement Saves Energy

Thermal Expansion is used to describe the amount a material expands in hot temperatures and shrinks in cold temperatures. When window materials expand and contract at very different rates, it causes stresses and strains between the different parts that result in cracks and gaps where air leakage can occur.

For example, have you ever run hot water over the metal lid on a jar that you can't open? The lid loosens because the thermal expansion coefficient of the metal is greater than that of the glass. The same thing happens from heat on an aluminum or vinyl window.

Now consider FIBREX. Like glass and the wood framing in your house, FIBREX has a very low Coefficient of Thermal Expansion, so temperature variations don't loosen the bond or create gaps in the window frame. FIBREX windows are guaranteed to maintain their airtight seals and insulating properties to save you energy.

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