knightfly
GrouchyOldFartOnBatteries
"Fair enough Steve. But, what would you do? Angle the doors or not?"
Michael, keep in mind that I've not experimented with this yet, so all I say is based on a combination of reading with BS filter in "deep" mode, and gut feel - in other words, a "SWAG" -
Personally, for the larger surfaces such as sliding doors, since the possibility is there for the between-door area to be relatively wide even at the narrow side, and since you have such a large area of glass facing each other, I would opt for splaying. That much parallelism just seems to be asking for trouble with high frequency flutter echo, and it's hard to put absorption between glasses and still see...
For a somewhat smaller area, such as a control room window, which will typically have less than half the area of a sliding door, unless the two leaves of the wall in question were at least 8-10 inches apart I would probably go for straight parallel glasses of different thickness, and laminated for sure.
To combat light glare, I would consider tilting BOTH glasses the same way, so as to minimise glare and still keep the maximum air gap. In either case, I'd use the thickest laminated glass I could afford that's consistent with the mass of the wall leaves, and NOT have both panes the SAME thickness.
With more room available between wall leaves, I'd go for splaying with all the other parameters as above. Also, in ALL cases I'd make sure that the space between glasses is vented between the wall leaves and absorbed.
Aside from that, where's that damn winning $54 mil Powerball ticket? I got stuff to do here... Steve
Michael, keep in mind that I've not experimented with this yet, so all I say is based on a combination of reading with BS filter in "deep" mode, and gut feel - in other words, a "SWAG" -
Personally, for the larger surfaces such as sliding doors, since the possibility is there for the between-door area to be relatively wide even at the narrow side, and since you have such a large area of glass facing each other, I would opt for splaying. That much parallelism just seems to be asking for trouble with high frequency flutter echo, and it's hard to put absorption between glasses and still see...
For a somewhat smaller area, such as a control room window, which will typically have less than half the area of a sliding door, unless the two leaves of the wall in question were at least 8-10 inches apart I would probably go for straight parallel glasses of different thickness, and laminated for sure.
To combat light glare, I would consider tilting BOTH glasses the same way, so as to minimise glare and still keep the maximum air gap. In either case, I'd use the thickest laminated glass I could afford that's consistent with the mass of the wall leaves, and NOT have both panes the SAME thickness.
With more room available between wall leaves, I'd go for splaying with all the other parameters as above. Also, in ALL cases I'd make sure that the space between glasses is vented between the wall leaves and absorbed.
Aside from that, where's that damn winning $54 mil Powerball ticket? I got stuff to do here... Steve
