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Window designers have new challenges from those of our forefathers. The basic requirement to keep wind and rain out and let the sunlight in remains the same, but today we have new concerns like global warming.
 
Thomas Stetson first patented double-glazing in 1865. He used two sheets of glass and a timber packer coated with tar to join the two - creating the worlds first sealed unit. He wasn't worried about global warming - just with conserving the heat inside his log cabin.
 
But it took another 100 years for people to realise that the resources we were using to heat our homes weren't going to be plentiful and renewable forever, and to start seriously thinking about conservation of energy.
 
The Bygone Collection was the first window of any kind to obtain certification from the Energy Savings Trust (UK). According to the Energy Savings Trust 20% of the heat lost from an average home occurs through the windows and for traditional single glazed sliding sash windows the figure is much higher. Only companies whose products that have proven they are the best in their class for saving energy, can use their "recommended" logo - and that includes Masterframe, for their Bygone (C rated) sash windows, because they are proven to reduce heat loss by 74%. The B rated window saves even more.
 
Thermally Efficient Glass:

Applying a special coating to glass services can either absorb or reflect the heat from the sun. This specially treated glass is a critical component in sash window production, with a range of leading edge glass combinations to ensure the best and most appropriate glass is available whatever you requirement.
 
All Bygone sash windows have triple chambered sash profiles for superior thermal properties, low iron glass on the outside and low energy glass inside. Combined with an argon filled sealed unit, it means that energy loss is kept to a bare minimum and explains how the Bygone Collection was the first window company to achieve a British Fenestration Ratings Council (BFRC) rating
 
Recycling Old Windows:

Recycling waste has always been an important part of The Bygone Collection manufacturing process, even before it became fashionable. Productions off cuts are returned for reuse, which avoids contributing to the growing landfill problem. Bygone Installers will provide information on how your old PVC-U windows are being removed, recycled and reused, once again avoiding land fill and reducing the demand on precious natural resources.
 
Greener Manufacture:

Since PVC was first extruded, Lead has been needed as a stabiliser. However just as lead in paint and petrol is undesirable so it is with PVC-u. But your new Bygone Collection sash windows will be lead free as we now use calcium as an organic substitute.
 
And that's not all; tests are well under way to substitute fossil fuels with natural oils such as rape seed oil.
 
Lower Energy Usage:
 
With Bygone Collection double glazed sash windows you can save 74% of your energy usage and even offset your carbon footprint EVERY year sufficient to have a holiday flight for a family of 4 to Florida.
 
Don't forget. These are standard size figures. The larger the window the greater the saving, what's more if you fit windows "properly" i.e. behind the outside skin of brickwork, you'll increase the efficiency still further!