Is there any real advantage to having thermal glass for a full length storm
door? Thanks, I'm in the US, zone 6.

JessicaG wrote:
Is there any real advantage to having thermal glass for a full length
storm door? Thanks, I'm in the US, zone 6.

Not really, but it is important to have safety glass.

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Joseph Meehan

Dia duit

I've heard of some instances of storm doors trapping enough heat to
cause problems.
Interior doors hot to the touch & paint blistering.
I've not seen actual installations.
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I've heard of some instances of storm doors trapping enough heat to
cause problems.
Interior doors hot to the touch & paint blistering.
I've not seen actual installations.

With a metal door in direct sun, dark colors will get hot enough to burn
you. Even light colors get fairly warm.

Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
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I've heard of some instances of storm doors trapping enough heat to
cause problems.
Interior doors hot to the touch & paint blistering.
I've not seen actual installations.


With a metal door in direct sun, dark colors will get hot enough to burn
you. Even light colors get fairly warm.


on an addition i did, the metal door inst. said no storm door.

On Sun, 6 Nov 2005 16:56:16 -0500, "JessicaG"
wrote:

Is there any real advantage to having thermal glass for a full length storm
door? Thanks, I'm in the US, zone 6.

I'm in zone 44.



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On Sun, 6 Nov 2005 16:56:16 -0500, "JessicaG"
wrote:

Is there any real advantage to having thermal glass for a full length storm
door? Thanks, I'm in the US, zone 6.

Oh, the question!

When you open the storm door all the warm air floats out. When you
keep it open while you open the inner door, all the warm air in the
first floor of the house floats out.

When they are both shut, the inner door and the storm door together
form a thermal unit. (as with a storm window that doesn't involve
thermal glass)).

If you were going to leave the inner door open, and only the storm
door shut, perhaps to let light into the entryway, for long periods
(as soom of my neighbors do and as I might do if I had a storm door)
then a thermal glass would be worth it.

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