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Creating of winter garden, it is necessary to think over the system of ventilation, protection against the sun and maintenance of due temperature and moisture mode. As the winter garden is a premise which practically completely consists of the glass, all these moments should be taken into consideration. If not to provide normal receipt of air in summer, the temperature under a glass roof can reach 70 heat degree. At such temperature there can not be a person in the garden, and plants will wither. For the winter period it is necessary to provide a good thermal protection so that the winter garden was not frozen.

Thermal protection

To solve a thermal protection problem rather new working out can help: so-called K - or E-glasses. K-glass represents thin glass with the metal dusting, having low parametre of thermal issue.The combination of K-glass and E-glass with inert gas filling gives a double-glazed window, under thermal characteristics it is equated to 60 sm of the brick wall. Often the technology of a "thermal mirror" is applied in a two-chamber double-glazed window with a film "Heat mirror" inside. "The thermal mirror" passes a sunlight, detaining ultra-violet beams. For roofs glassing it is possible to use polycarbonate plates with thickness from 16 mm. The roof design joins mansard windows for air exchange.

As the most part of winter gardens it consists of glass, solar beams can easy get into the premise because of this the temperature strongly raises. It is necessary to accept a number of precautionary measures not to turn winter garden to the present hotbed. Protection against the sun can be created by means of glasses with a special sun-protection dusting. Also it is possible to equip a garden with internal or external mechanisms of protection against the sun. It should carry out a lot of functions - in hot days to protect a premise and its inhabitants from a heat and to create a desired shade, and in the evenings to pass necessary light, in winter of the sun rotection devices should save indoors warmly. There are two types of sun-protection devices: external and internal. Jalousie concern the internal and curtains. Practice has shown, that the best devices protecting from the sun, are external, such as marquises and rafcurtains. If at use of internal devices protection against the sun makes approximately 15-30 %, at use of marquises and rafcurtains from 70 to 90 % as sun beams are late even before hit on glass.

For optimum air exchange it is necessary to provide ventilation systems. Except artificial ventilation also natural ventilation exists, which is very important for the people and plants, especially during the summer period. 50-60 % of all area of garden glassing should be opening. In the bottom part the air flow, and in top - outflow should be organized.