In personal construction, plastic coatings are used only in order to maximize the area of lighting the structure. A similar need often occurs with the design of greenhouses, greenhouses. Quite often, light transmitting roofs are installed above the rooms in the building that do not have external walls, but only there are internal walls.
In addition, arbors are made from plastic, the canopies above the entrance or pools are erected. For those who have considerable doubts about what is best to purchase – plastic material or standard glass, there are comparative tables of technical characteristics:
So, for example, the cost of one square meter of plastic sheet and ordinary sheet glass at a cost are approximately the same. Do not forget to draw a central heat station with your own hands, it will be much more profitable.
In this case, plastic has high corrosion and moisture resistance, which are comparable to ordinary glass.
Significant resistance to various shock influences, much exceeding glass, about ten times – all this will directly depend on the product brand of plastic.
The small specific gravity has plastic, its density is about 1.37 grams per centimeter cubic, and the glass density is approximately 2.5 per centimeter cubic, almost twice asleep. Most plastics, due to their individual structure, are much lighter than glass – about sixteen times.
Plastic perfectly miss light, no worse than glass.
Has low thermal conductivity, which is much lower than that of the glass.
Has excellent sound insulation qualities.
Easily refracted, bends, drilles, unlike the properties of glass.
The term of its useful use is up to fifteen years, and glass is the most durable material.
Light translucent type plastics are a wide variety of shades. This allows you to form stunning effects of light in the room.