Noise reduction glazing - advice please!

Tancred

I'm buying a house near a main road and the windows need double/triple glazing, primarily for noise reduction.

Can someone please advise me as to the best product out there? I've seen a lot more triple glazing products and am thinking about these two providers:

http://www.sureglaze.com/

http://www.britelitewindows.co.uk/

Are either of these reliable and offer value for money?

Thanks.

System

is the current glazing ok or does it need replacing?
If it's ok I would recommend getting secondary glazing as it gives good noise reduction properties against the outlay - the downside is that sometimes it doesn't look great so you have to be careful on that front...

Tancred

the_r_sole wrote: »

is the current glazing ok or does it need replacing?
If it's ok I would recommend getting secondary glazing as it gives good noise reduction properties against the outlay - the downside is that sometimes it doesn't look great so you have to be careful on that front...

The current windows are 30 years old and wood framed. The wood is now rotting. Secondary glazing is therefore not an option.

I've been told that double glazing with laminated glass could work well, but I'm concerned about the additional costs.

System

if you are concerned about additional cost of double glazing with laminated glass I doubt you will find triple glazed windows any cheaper

yoyoegg

I had new DG windows, and wanted to reduce noise.

The trick is to have one pane laminated and one pane standard, ideally the glass should be 1mm different in thickness. From memory, the laminate is the external pane.

That worked well for airborne noise of kiddies shouting in back gardens etc.

If you're on a busy road, then traffic rumble from HGV will come up via the ground and into the building and D/G won't make much difference.

Johnandabby

Secondary glazing behind double or single glazing will work much better in terms of noise reduction than triple glazing due to the larger air gap. The weak point will always be any trickle vents or air vents, so best thing from a noise point of view is to not have any - however you need to consider ventilation as well as noise reduction.

I've used Selectaglaze on a few projects and they've provided excellent results.