[Greenbuilding] translucent material needed

[RT]

Sacie;

I suspect that if you were to contact a glass supplier who has a helpful  
person on their staff, they'd be able to find  tempered insulating glass  
units of the dimensions that you need, from a manufacturer who is already  
making them in bulk quantities for a door & window manufacturer, with low  
-E , inert gas fills, warm edge spacers etc.

To get the translucence that you desire, you could take a sheet or sheets  
of plain, untempered glass and sandblast them, either by yourself with an  
inexpensive sandblasting gizmo ($20 at the local Canadiran Tire store) or  
pay someone to do it for you.  You can paint on some rubbery gunk to  
create artwork on the surface to be sandblasted to repel the sand and  
leave clear areas.

The translucent panel would then be inserted in the opening first,  
followed by as many layers of insulating glass as you want.  You could  
make the openings better insulated than your opaque walls if you wanted  
to.  No reason translucent panel has to be just white though. Since the  
air barrier will be the IGUs , pieces of coloured glass could be included  
when making the insert panel.


On Fri, 30 Jun 2017 12:36:57 -0400, Sacie Lambertson  
<sacie.lambertson at gmail.com> wrote:

> All, since there remains a bit of life on this forum, I thought I would  
> ask if any of you have a suggestion for a material >that has some  
> R-value to it but is at the same time translucent.  Much like Kalwal is,  
> if any of you are familiar with that >product.
>
> I have three windows in a bay through which I want good light but at the  
> same time also want to add another layer on >the interior side of the  
> windows that might make the openings more energy efficient.  The windows  
> will never be >opened but I do want light through them during the day.   
> They will have glass shelves in front of them too so shades >etc are not  
> in the cards.
>
> Suggestions welcome.  At 28" x 72" the windows are huge holes in this  
> room.  I want to modify this.
>
> thanks, Sacie



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