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Male1: The blazing summer sun was a big concern for the couple building a solarium on to this country home. They wanted to have great views of the surrounding Countryside, but they were concerned about how well a glass room could keep out the summer heat. They chose a conservatory made by four season's sunroom, because of the insulating properties of this glass. It can truly be used in all four seasons.
Male2: A design consultant will come and visit the home, measure out the space where the homeowner wants to put their sunroom. And then, design a room specifically for them. Every room is pretty much, although it's a mogulus system, it's kind of custom built for every room, for every room to fit their application with their used. In this case it's off a bedroom but we have home offices, kitchens, bathrooms, family rooms is probably the most popular.

And then how they finished in the inside, this one happens to be a wood unit, there are others that are aluminum. First up of putting up your four seasons summer room, so make sure you have your flashing down that is the base wall, it's going to have stone applied. And then you have your flashing, so any water comes down it drips off the edge of this flashing, it goes the face of the stone and off. And this is the sill, and the window wall's going to get. The next section is to put up your window wall system, so the operable casement window, and the transit on the above, then from there, we put another sill at the top and then run the wooden beams, to the top of the conservatory.
Male1: The window wall sections are pre assembled at the factory, on the job site, each section is connected to the next.
Male2: This window and the transit above actually comes as one unit. Its already been factory assembled so everything's square, and it operates perfectly and you just put it in patch something of it.
Male1: Wooden beam will run to the top of the conservatory.
Male2: Once that finish up putting up the beams this outside is a part of the glazing tract system, this is mounted onto the beams and the glass sits on here. And then another cap sits on top of it and that holds the glass in place. Just set the glass, set the glass on to those beams and this caps goes over. And the cap from the bottom, another cap and they screw through over that singes everything together. Then the inside as you can see is covered with wood, due to the weather paint seal.
Male1: The windows are made with tempered glass for strength, safety and security. This glass is four times stronger than standard window glass.
Male2: Four seasons puts now a special, easy clean finish on the outside of all our glass. Most people think of glass as being perfectly smooth, but actually if you look at it under a microscope, there are tiny fissures in it it's a rough surface. And what happen is on most glass, rain water carries dust and those little fissures, that unevenness, collects the dust, and the glass looks dirty. So that's why you have to clean your glass so much.

We now put this finish on, right on the factory and it fills on all those grooves and make it perfectly smooth it becomes a hydrophilic surface. So when rainwater flushes over it, it doesn't bead up it actually shoots off and carrying away dust and dirt away with it.
Male1: One of the great features of this solarium is the natural wood interior finish. Very nice looking product, all you have to watch for is moisture, you don't ever want to get the wood wet, with this system you don't, because all of the window paints are incase on an aluminum frame with rubber gaskets. If there is ever any condensation build up whatsoever in the windows, it will come to the bottom and still inside those frames and then go out the weep holes to the exterior. So it never touch the natural wood in the interior, which means we're not going to have a wood rotting out, we're not going to have any mold build up.
Male2: Okay, we're just doing the finish trim now it's the 10% of the job it takes 90% of the time. So we do all this trim, we do a bunch of test fitting, get the notches just right, then it gets covered with another piece of trim all around. And that's makes the room really beautiful on the inside. The inside were all primed wood work, as it is, you know, Krestman built as it was. And that can be stained or painted, to match the d?cor of the rest of the house or whatever feeling that the home owner wants.

The most important part of the sunroom is the glass this is a special proprietary exclusive MC, which stands for multi coat glass. The coatings are on the number two surface of an insulated glass unit. This will be your number 1 surface, the other side of that piece of glass, would be a number 2 surface, number 3 surface would be the inside of this and this should be the number 4 surface. So all those multi-coatings are all on the inside of this piece of glass and they reflect away the heat in the summer and reflect the heat back in the winter. So that your sunroom stays warm in winter, cool in summer.
Male1: The glass arrives with a protective polyvinyl masking on both surfaces to protect the glass until the room is finish. The installers peel off the masking, leaving a pristine surface, inside and out. Well Jim explained to me what you're doing with the radiometer and three paints of glass.
Male2: Well this three paints of glass represents different glazing like different glass manufacturers used. The three heat lamps hear represents the sun or the solar energy coming from the sun and the radiometer is representing or measuring how much heat is coming through the glass.
Male1: And the two on the outside are spinning quite a bit, what type of glass treatment do we have on this?
Male2: Well all three of these glazing's are insulated glass, which only means if you have two piece of glass with an aero space usually filled with argon in between, which is great for winter heat loss or preventing winter heat loss.
Male1: Okay.
Male2: But three's really nothing to protect against the sun's solar energy. If you think about it, the sun's radiating heat, it's heat and energy thousands of thousands of mile to the earth and another inch of air space isn't going to stop it.
Male1: So the argon gasses aren't going to help us on the summer time. But then you said that it does have a coating on it.
Male2: Yes, this one's solar bronze, so it has a bronze coating on it, it perfectly reflect some of the heat.
Male1: Okay.
Male2: Rather than some plain insulated glass.
Male1: So it helps a little bit in the summer.
Male2: It will definitely help a little bit
Male1: Okay.
Male2: This other one is low e-glass, which most people have heard of, it's very common now in beautiful windows.
Male: Yeah, windows and doors.
Male2: Again, it's an insulated glass, and it has a low emissivity coating in the number 2 glass surface. The third one, is four seasons glass, if you look around the radiometer, you can see both of these two are spinning quite a bit.
Male1: Yeah.
Male2: And if you imagine that that was your electric heater-spinning trying to keep this room cool, it's not something that you want.
Male1: Okay.
Male2: This one, third one, is four season MC wonder glass and it is designed specifically for rooms made of glass. Its got the heavier coating that reflects more of the sun's energy away.
Male1: So if our windows and doors the low e would be fine, but if you built all of your walls, the ceiling, the roof, everything out of glass then.
Male2: You really want to have a special glass made just for that purpose.
Male1: Okay.
Male2: I mean if you could put your hand in between any of these you can actually feel the heat through it.
Male1: Oh, yeah, a very big difference.
Male2: And that's why all rooms can be built anywhere from Maine, to Arizona and Alaska to the middle east.
Male1: Okay, and the coating will cut down the summer time heat gain and then the argon gas will help.
Male2: That coating actually helps in the winter as well. It's reflecting the energy that you put in to the room to heat the room back in to the room and not letting it pass on to the outside.
Male1: Not only did the homeowners get an extraordinary space to fit their home, they can enjoy a sunroom that will be functional and comfortable in all four seasons. For more information in how four seasons sunroom can add comfort, beauty and value to your new house, visit four seasons at the internet at fourseasonssunroom.com.

Male1: The blazing summer sun was a big concern for the couple building a solarium on to this country home. They wanted to have great views of the surrounding Countryside, but they were concerned about how well a glass room could keep out the summer heat. They chose a conservatory... click to read more