This blog post originally appeared on the Alpen Window’s website. https://thinkalpen.com/. I had the opportunity to tour the Alpen plant recently and was very impressed with the windows they make. There will be more content featuring Alpen Windows in the near future.
Heat is a funny thing; it wants to move from someplace warm to someplace cold, (the opposite of being a snowbird) and it’ll continue to move until it has reached equilibrium. In the heat of the summer or cold of winter, that means if we can’t slow the movement of heat, the temperature of the outside will be the same as the temperature of the inside. This might be 110°F or -25°F, neither is appealing. Of course, we heat and cool our buildings to maintain comfort, but these systems work best when we’re able to slow this constant march of heat leaving or entering the building, we do this with insulation.