Full Disclosure- my company distributes SeriousWindows products in eastern Canada. === In defence of SeriousWindows, and their use of suspended coated film and Heat Mirror films. Like any product their are good and bad manufacturers, saying that heat mirror is bad because of one company's problems, is like saying that all double windows are bad, because the seals sometimes fail. The test of any glass or window manufacturer is the examination of product installed 15 or 20 years ago. SeriousWindows (formerly Alpen) has a 30 year history of producing in their own factories glass with suspended coated films and Heat mirror. Here is a sample of major projects that date back to 1981, and all in excellent condition. HOLY CROSS ENERGY, Glenwood Springs, Colorado ,1981 NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY New York, NY, 1982 BOEING MUSEUM OF FLIGHT, 1984. HOTEL TROPICANNA II – LAS VEGAS 1985 COLORADO STATE SERVICES BUILDING, Grand Junction, CO (1982) SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY Washington, DC, 1991 SMITHSONIAN FREER GALLERY, Washington, DC, 1992 NEWARK AIRPORT (Monorail Terminals) 1992 NATIONAL AUDUBON HEADQUARTERS, New York, NY 1995 SAN JOSE CONVENTION CENTER – California, 1995 VIRGINIA AIR & SPACE MUSEUM, Hampton, VA 1997 BOULDER, COLORADO LIBRARY, 1998 GUGGENHEIM-MANHEIM – LAS VEGAS, 2001 SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Washington, DC 2002 |