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Monday, January 27, 2014

The Right French Doors can Keep You Cool in Winter

Whenever winter comes, proper insulation and temperature regulation are a top priority among many homeowners to ensure that their houses provide sufficient warmth in the days ahead. This is an opportunity for people to apply special coatings and films to their windows to prevent heat loss and discourage cold temperatures from penetrating indoors.

Patio doors can serve as portals from which heat can escape from, especially if they're not sealed right. Improving their insulation is one thing, but it's another to actually purchase doors that are truly energy efficient as well. Due to their use of glass, patio doors are much like windows in the sense that heat can easily permeate through them, which results in heat loss during winter.

While there are ways to insulate these doors by padding them, or preventing heat from seeping through by adding caulk, such procedures can be very tedious, especially since they'll need to be undone once winter passes. It's simpler to just install patio doors that have been fitted with energy-efficient glass, which do a very good job of retaining heat. French doors equipped with full weather stripping and treated glass, for example, are the perfect foil for escaping heat without sacrificing a beautiful portal.