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High-Perfomance French Doors

Cordell Burton from Pella Windows in Iowa is with Bob to show him the inswinging French doors that will be installed in the Rowley Victorian. An inswinging door allows for more room on the patio and easier placement of furniture. It is constructed of solid wood and double-pane, low-e glass separated into panes with architectural grids. The glass has low-emissivity layers that keep warmth inside during cold months and hot air from penetrating during the warm summer months. It reduces 77 percent of heat gain in warm weather. The doors cost between $1800 and $2000.
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High-Perfomance French Doors

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" Cordell Burton is visiting us here in Rowley all the way it all away from Pella Iowa right that's right about the everywhere. It's beautiful out here nice and -- nice and cool in -- since this is a relatively new product from now all right. Yeah this is our new in swing press door. Now on an in swing French door traditionally French doors. Hundred years ago whatever always -- out swinging and they're usually used kind of opening onto a terrace. What's the advantage of an in swinging doors allowed to have a less terrace out there and enhance -- to the end scarcely get your patio furniture except for outside. Right in this of course is leading onto our new wooden deck that we haven't built yet. OK what about in situations like where you have high a hurricane situations -- hurricane winds. -- when things outs when they're actually better for that because. If the design of the door keeps it from swinging inside the instant when an out swing as well that's correct. Okay now as an all wood door right so it inside and outside on this one primed. And the exciting thing about the French doors of course is the glass right that's right now Tom -- about the glass is it double. Actually this is a double -- when they can't tell -- that's all one pane of glass into one big paint Hala this -- glass it's modern low. The aesthetics. And the lineals are grids are actual wood it was so everything is paint grade. That let's talk about the glass so it's low in the city blast which a lot of people are specifying. Not just in cold climates but in hot climates how does that work."

" It actually have low. It keeps heat from traveling through so if you're trying to maintain that. -- all the way to keep the warm inside also in hot -- It keeps the sun from coming through to create as much you can do the reverse exactly and it's rated to what do. They need to 23 factors. They altogether heat gain factor is about point -- trees -- as 23%. Of what would normally come through felt so."

" Allow it reduces it by seventy -- that's right -- yes exactly. Is there argon glass in it as well that is argon filled so they get the good U value so this is a very high performance product threat. And the price category. Somewhere around 1802000. Dollars terrific well we'll be installing it soon thanks Korea thinking."

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