The classification of plastic windows is carried out according to several criteria: the number of sashes, the type of opening, the shape of the window opening, the area of purpose, and appearance. Each of the listed factors affects their cost, operating conditions and appearance of the product, so let's look at them in more detail.
Original design of a plastic window Source st50.stblizko.ru
Number of sashes
A sash is a separate cell of a double-glazed window, separated from the adjacent window profile. In most cases, their number depends on the width of the window opening (the wider, the more sashes). The most common types of windows are:
- Single leaf. The most economical option. It can be open or non-opening (deaf). The latter are most often installed in corridors, boiler rooms, on staircases, and attic floors.
Plastic window with two sashes Source okna-biz.ru
- Double leaf. One of the most popular options. The scope of application of such structures extends everywhere: from private households and cottages to multi-storey buildings for residential or commercial purposes. They are installed in openings whose width exceeds 90 cm. They have 2 double-glazed windows with one or two opening ones. To strengthen the structure, a separating vertical profile is installed between the packages.
Plastic window with three sashes Source s15.dibi.ru/izhevsk
- Tricuspid. A variant of a plastic window with three sashes. It is mounted in large window bays of voluminous living rooms, spacious halls, and offices.
Can be executed in different versions:
- With two outer opening double-glazed windows.
- With one middle one.
- With all three.
Due to the complexity of manufacturing (installation of a larger number of shut-off valve elements), the latter are among the most expensive in their class. They are much less common than the first options. The most common ones are with one blind double-glazed window located in the middle of the structure.
Seven-leaf plastic arched window Source window-ramenskoye.rf
Interesting! Plastic windows are made to order, according to the individual dimensions of the consumer. The number of sashes can be large, as well as their location: vertically, parallel to each other or horizontally, one above the other.
Choosing the color of plastic windows
The colored frame of a plastic window allows you to make any home individual, and skillful selection of shades allows you to create a real masterpiece in the field of interior craftsmanship. Laminated plastic windows are most often used during the construction of private houses and cottages, because with their help you can individualize the property, highlighting it from the surrounding buildings. Changing the color of the frame when decorating the facade allows you to create a seamless look of the facade, made in a certain style.
The ability of plastic to replicate the structure of wood allows you to expand the boundaries of stylistic design. Modern production allows you to bring to life the most daring design ideas, and imitation wood makes it possible to decorate your home in a style that prefers the presence of natural building materials. As for multi-storey buildings and apartments, you need to be extremely careful when choosing the color of the frame; there are no restrictions only when decorating the inside of the window.
Modern plastic frames are breaking the boundaries of what a modern home should look like. Each room can be decorated in a specific style by choosing the desired color scheme. The production of plastic structures allows you to use any shade from the RAL palette, the number of colors in which is constantly increasing. Using the shade selection table, you can choose the optimal color of furniture, blinds, walls and textiles, as a result of which the problem of possible color dissonance disappears.
Particularly popular are panoramic windows, which provide an expanded view, thereby allowing you to enjoy the view of the garden or the city. You can emphasize the beauty of the structure by placing emphasis on it using graphite or gray shades of the profile. Panoramic windows look best in high-tech style, which prefers the use of modern technologies. The ability to change the color will allow you to emphasize the modern design of your home, because high-tech adores gray color. Also, colored frames can be used for the interior of children's rooms, which makes it more vibrant and original. The main thing is that the chosen color does not cause anxiety and overexcitement in the child.
Opening technology
A significant amount of the cost of the entire plastic window falls on shutoff valves: locking mechanisms, hinges, handles. Manufacturers offer several options, each of which has its own advantages and disadvantages.
Non-opening plastic window Source spb-okna.su
Deaf. The most economical and inconvenient to use. It does not open, which is where all the main shortcomings arise: problems with washing and ventilation of the room. The advantage (except for the price) of the model is that it is characterized by maximum reliability. There are no complex opening mechanisms, which means there is nothing to break.
Pivot-type plastic window Source obustroeno.com
Design of plastic windows - what is the budget?
And yet the most important trend in window design is individuality. Each window can and should be unique. You can decorate a window and make it special on any budget, for example:
- Economy design - fashionable Roto Swing handle in a contrasting color on a white window (+500 rubles to the cost of a regular window). Place handles of different colors in different rooms and you will have different windows!
- Standard design – fashionable lamination on one side + fashionable handle + hidden hinges (+ 35% to the cost of a regular window). This is an option for apartments whose owners value not only tightness in windows, but also beauty.
- Premium design – panoramic glazing with double-sided lamination + stylish handles + sliding opening (from RUB 50,000/sq.m.). Premium glazing significantly increases the selling price of a property and is a good investment.
Fashionable windows keep up with trends in all areas of interior design. Having installed a stylish window, you don’t need to cover it with tulle. It will become a real decoration of the interior and exterior of the house, from which it is impossible to take your eyes off.
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Destination
Gazebo with plastic windows Source st44.stpulscen.ru
The concept of “heat and cold” among window makers means a model that should have good thermal insulation properties and separate the street (with its negative temperatures) from the living space. In the understanding of most of us, plastic windows are installed precisely according to the latter scheme. The fact that they can be used indoors is something we often overlook. For example, a window in the boss’s office in an office, a factory workshop, or a summer gazebo.
Such models are called “cold-cold” or “heat-heat”, because they are installed in places where there is no sharp temperature difference on different sides of the glass unit. The design of such models is the most simplified, which is reflected in the low price.
Profile difference
An example of a five and three chamber window Source sp-kazan.com
The structure of the profile plays one of the key roles in the cost and performance characteristics of a plastic window. The main material here is PVC (polyvinyl chloride). It is made by melting raw materials and pressing out a product of complex configuration. Then a square profiled pipe is inserted inside and sealing occurs.
The result of the operations is a rectangular beam, inside of which there can be from 3 to 7 longitudinal cavities isolated from each other. It is due to this that the effect of good thermal insulation, which is not characteristic of PVC in its original form, is achieved.
Thus, the answer to the question: what types of plastic windows are there, taking into account the difference in profile, is as follows:
- Three- or four-chamber – used according to the previously described principle of “heat-heat”, “cold-cold”.
- Five-chamber ones are the most common for Moscow and the region.
- Six- and seven-chamber ones do not provide a strong effect in thermal insulation, but they are more expensive and weighty. It is more advisable to install a five-chamber profile with a wider double-glazed window, the differences in which we will discuss below.
Main trends in the design of plastic windows in Russia
The lush and flashy window decor of the early 2000s is slowly but surely changing. Window decoration gains style and sophistication. Bright wood decors are being replaced by calm, noble shades - pastel monochromatic, strict metal, the most natural wood.
Photo: fashion for window color is changingThe fashion for decorative gold grilles in double-glazed windows, deliberately woody patterns on the profile and curtains with lambrequins is becoming a thing of the past, following carpets on the wall.
What windows are in fashion today?
Stylish color – anthracite and natural wood imitation
In recent years, the European trend for all shades of gray in window design is gradually winning the hearts of Russian fashionistas.
Photo: anthracite is a fashionable color today. Also today, plastic windows with imitation of natural wood are fashionable, the favorite among them is “bleached oak”.
Photo: colors of natural, aged wood and rich gray are today's favorites. Windows can be colored in two ways - lamination and painting.
| Window lamination is a technology for imparting color to a PVC profile using a special film that is resistant to sun and precipitation. It can be one-sided or two-sided. Carried out in the factory, it is not possible on an installed window. |
Today there are more than a hundred shades of lamination films. The latest developments have an appearance and surface structure that imitate visually and tactilely natural wood or metal. Single-sided lamination will add about 30% to the cost of the window, double-sided lamination will add about 50%.
Painting plastic profiles is still rare in Russia, but in Europe it is a fairly common technology. Modern water-based paints allow you to give the window any color on the RAL scale. High-quality painting of windows is possible in production in a special painting chamber, where dust cannot get on the fresh paint. In field conditions, painting installed windows is very problematic. The ability to paint a profile is truly a treasure for architects and designers.
| Important! Attempting to change the color after installing windows by painting may result in warping and destruction of the window. Why? White and colored windows differ in the thickness of the internal reinforcement (metal that gives rigidity to the window). In white standard windows the reinforcement thickness is 1.5 mm, and in colored windows from 2 mm. If you paint an installed white window some color on the outside, the window will heat up more in the sun and become deformed. Therefore, the color of the window must be selected at the ordering stage. |
Photo: hundreds of bright colors can transform any facade
Accent on the windowsill
If you think that a window sill can only be white and boring, and its purpose is to be a flower stand, then this is not so! A beautiful window sill is the same stylish interior detail as a window. Experiment! Choose to match the window or contrast.
Photo: now the window sills are not only white. They have become bright and can easily stand out in the interior. And they are not afraid of scratches. With the help of a beautiful window sill you can change the appearance of the window on a budget. A beautiful window sill will cost less than lamination and will last for several decades. The price of a beautiful, fashionable window sill starts from 1,500 rubles per meter.
Fashionable pens
Just as a theater begins with a hanger, so does a window with a window handle. Because it is through it that tactile contact with the window occurs. The handle is the most noticeable detail of the window and always attracts the eye. For fashionable windows, there is a huge selection of handles that will highlight the style and add a special charm to the “eyes” of the house. Especially if the handle itself has a unique shape and matches the color of the profile.
Photo: the brutal Roto Swing pen is a challenge pen! It will decorate a window of any color, the main thing is to find your individual combination *If Roto Swing is too bold and unusual for you, pay attention to the elegant Roto Line handles - elegant classics and nothing superfluous.
Photo: the classic Roto Line handle is suitable for windows of delicate colors *A correctly selected handle gives the window character, mood and individuality.
When purchasing a window with a beautiful handle, its price will increase by an average of 500 rubles.
Invisible loops
It’s good when the interior has a bright, noticeable accent, such as a window handle. But a lot of bright touches will be too much, stylish things like to go solo - one gold decoration is stylish, but three is already bad taste.
Window hinges are covered with decorative plugs, usually matching them to the color of the handle, and this overloads the window with details that are often difficult to match to a single shade. What to do with loops? Here I would like to recall the classics of Soviet cinema
Hidden fittings are at the peak of popularity today in furniture, interior doors and, of course, windows. Everything is removed out of sight, the doors of the furniture sets remain absolutely flat, without handles or hinges.
There is also a solution for stylish windows - hidden Roto Designo fittings. Designo hinges hidden inside the window are beautiful in their invisibility and have a number of undeniable advantages:
- Do not get dirty and do not require protection from dirt during repairs;
- They are not blown out and do not freeze;
- They limit the rotation of the sash and protect it from impacts on the slope.
Photo: no matter how harmoniously the hinges are matched to the color of the lamination, their absence still gives a greater chance for the beauty of the window to be revealed. Hidden hinges will add 10% to the cost of the window. Often window companies hold promotions and sell invisible hinges at the price of regular hinges.
Trendy opening
Functionality and ergonomics are the main trends and requirements for interior elements. Now everything is in fashion that does not take up much space, does not get in the way underfoot, and does not have to be touched while moving around the home space. The window or door should open so as not to interfere with other objects in the room. Designs with sliding door openings benefit from this trend. When opening, the sash moves along the window or door opening, as in the Roto Patio Alversa or Roto Patio Inowa doors.
Roto Patio Inowa is an innovative door opening principle that has no analogues on the market. The doors do not recline or rise, but simply move away from the frame when the handle is turned. All fittings are hidden in the profile and the door in any color looks like a solid structure.
Photo: Roto Patio Inowa is an excellent solution for connoisseurs of minimalist interiors - power, lightness, impressive size and laconicism*
4 models of Roto Patio Alversa sliding doors, including those with semi-automatic tilt control PS Air Com, are designed for those who value comfort.
Photo: Roto Patio Alversa tilt-sliding doors and windows with ergonomic handles and convenient ventilation functions fully meet the demand for ease of use of modern windows * Sliding opening automatically transforms the window structure into the category of premium products, the price rises accordingly - from 20,000 rubles / m2 without installation.
Buy windows with fashionable Roto* fittings |
Fashionable window type - floor-to-ceiling panoramic windows
An absolute hit, the most popular type of glazing in luxury new buildings and cottages.
Photo: floor-to-ceiling panoramic windows have become a new trend in architecture. Windows become the most beautiful and dynamic picture in the house and emphasize the high status of the property. Special glass makes it possible to make such windows as warm as walls. For panoramic glazing, only high-quality materials are used: expensive glass with a thickness of 6 mm, a wide profile with powerful reinforcement. This premium type of glazing, like the previous one, cannot be cheap - the price per square meter of “solid” panoramic windows will be from 25,000 rubles/sq.m, sliding from 50,000 rubles/sq.m. without installation.
Classification by type of double-glazed windows
Types of plastic windows, differing in the type of glass unit, are considered the most numerous. The division here occurs according to several criteria: the number of chambers, the type of gas pumped between the glasses, multifunctional purpose.
Counting cameras
The meaning of a double-glazed window is hermetically connected, but not touching, sheets of glass located in parallel, at a distance of 1-3 cm (depending on the design features of the window) from each other.
Single-chamber double-glazed plastic window Source srbu.ru
Types of lamination
The application of a special film allows you to choose windows that harmoniously combine with any interior or exterior. You can use one-sided lamination when the color of the frame changes on the inside or outside. Double lamination is also possible, and you can use one or different colors. Of course, all this affects the cost of the final product, but creating a unique interior and exterior completely justifies the costs.
Painting all plastic windows in one color or another allows you to create a unique interior. The plastic base can be painted in various shades of calm colors, the most popular colors being cream, caramel and brown. Thanks to this, plastic can not only highlight the interior of a private home, but also imitate natural wood, creating a cozy atmosphere indoors.
