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Why are energy efficient windows so important to your customers? You probaby know that the amount of energy we waste has been inked to cimate change. And you definitey know how much it costs to heat a home. But your customers may not be fuy aware just how much difference the type of gass used in doube gazing can have on the energy efficiency of their homes, or that not a doube gazing is the same. By instaing Pikington energikare gazing in your windows, you be heping your customers to reduce the amount of energy they use, do their bit for the environment and save money on their heating bis. So promoting energy efficient windows incorporating Pikington energikare to your customers makes sense for both of you. We ve made compiance with the scheme much simper with units meeting Buiding Reguation therma requirements, provided they incude any of our range of Pikington K Gass options and Pikington Optiwhite - so they can be customised with gas fi, warm edge spacer and a choice of gass type to suit you and your customers. By incuding our new soft coat Pikington K Gass S and hard coat Pikington K Gass OW, as we as the origina Pikington K Gass, you can achieve any WER from A to C in any of the main frame types. Latest figures confirm that Pikington K Gass is sti the most we known brand of owemissivity gass, with consumer awareness of 64% in our most recent survey. It sti comes with a the support you need, free of charge promotiona materias, technica and commercia support, and a we known website to generate eads. Now with Pikington K Gass S you can easiy achieve A rated windows. The amount of energy saved by changing the gazing is proportiona to the area of windows in the house and the voume of the buiding. Iustrated savings are based on a new house with approximatey 13m 2 of windows With Pikington Window net heat oss (KWh/m 2 /a) 250 200 150 100 50 0 Why Pikington energikare? Our gazing unit has been around for more than 5 years, heping to make homes warmer and customers happier. Originay introduced as an easy way to meet Buiding Reguations using WERs and to hep reassure homeowners using the famiiar A-G cooured abeing, it s as good today as it s aways been in fact it s better. Singe gazed Uncoated doube gazed ess heat escapes How does Pikington energikare make windows more energy efficient? Repacing singe gazing with Pikington energikare can reduce the amount of energy ost through windows by at east 90%. Depending on the size of the house, by upgrading your gazing to Pikington energikare enough energy coud be saved to: Run an LCD computer screen for 43,500 hours, which is equivaent to neary 5 years of continuous use. Make over 34,000 cups of tea Run an A+ rated fridge freezer for 6.6 years Pikington energikare makes a huge difference to the energy efficiency of windows www.pikington.co.uk/energikare energy saving
Doesn t a doube gazing save energy? Pikington energikare is twice as energy efficient as uncoated doube gazing. The Window Energy Rating (WER) scheme was put in pace to hep make choosing windows easier for consumers. By making it simiar to the system that is appied to consumer goods such as washing machines, fridges, freezers and ight bubs, they can easiy understand your offering. Using Pikington energikare means that you have a product that wi meet current Buiding Reguations Part L 2010 and expected improvements in 2013 and 2016. If a window is rated B or above it may aso appy to be part of the Energy Saving Recommended scheme. A very reassuring to househoders considering changing their windows. Don t forget. You can now offer Pikington energikare gazing as a gass repacement option for customers whose windows you instaed before 2002 with uncoated doube gazing. So how does Pikington energikare work? Pikington energikare reduces the amount of heat ost through windows and it aso aows more heat (energy) from the sun in through the gass this effect is known as soar gain. As soar gain is heat from the sun, it s free of charge and avaiabe a year round. Pikington energikare contains two specia types of gass:- Pikington Optiwhite a specia extra-cear type of gass. It increases the degree of soar heat gain heping to make a home fee warmer without the need to turn up the heating. And one of the foowing from the Pikington K Gass range, the UK s eading ow-emissivity gass: Outside Pikington Optiwhite (outer pane) Argon gas fiing and/or air fiing with warm edge spacer Pikington K Gass, Pikington K Gass S Pikington K Gass OW (inner pane) Inside Pikington K Gass Pikington K Gass OW Pikington K Gass S Spacer bar Fiing the doube gazed unit with argon gas or using a warm edge spacer enabes you to choose your preferred route to reducing the amount of heat escaping from the window. Cross section Pikington energikare unit
The wider Pikington energikare product range Pikington energikare Tripe The choice for the best possibe window energy rating performance and highest eves of energy efficiency in ow or zero carbon new homes. These high performance tripe-gazed units optimise the baance between U-vaues and g-vaues to maximise energy efficiency. For further information visit pikington.co.uk/tripe Pikington Spacia Using advanced Pikington Spacia technoogy, this is the word s first commerciay-avaiabe vacuum gazing. It aows the manufacture of extremey thin high quaity gazing which can be fitted in od stye fine frames, maintaining the origina appearance of oder traditiona buidings, and is equay suitabe for new buid. For further information visit pikington.co.uk/spacia Image provided by Princedae Eco Haus Ltd Pikington energikare Tripe Pikington Spacia www.pikington.co.uk/energikare
Energy Saving Recommended Energy Saving Recommended (ESR) is an Energy Saving Trust initiative backed by Government. Windows achieving band B and above are aso eigibe for the Energy Saving Recommended status from the EST. Therefore, if your windows achieve a WER of B or above, you wi be abe to use the ESR ogo to reassure your customers that the windows you are instaing are particuary energy efficient. Understanding Window Energy Ratings The Window Energy Rating system measures the efficiency of the compete window and frame to produce a singe number. It s based on a simiar European Union system for domestic appiances and is a simpe way to compare the energy efficiency of competing products. Pikington energikare heps windows achieve high eves of energy efficiency, from a minimum C rating up to A rating in any frame type, which satisfies the current buiding reguations (Part L 2010) with options to enabe you to meet potentia updates in 2013 and 2016. Pikington energikare Technica Performance Light Outside Centre Pane Tota Soar Heat Pikington Transmittance Refectance U vaue Transmittance energikare Inner Pane Cavity Outer Pane (%) (%) (Ug W/m 2 K) (g vaue) % unit Pikington Optifoat 12 mm air *Pikington Optifoat 0.82 0.15 2.9 0.78 No Pikington K Gass 16 mm argon Pikington Optiwhite 0.76 0.18 1.5 0.78 Yes Pikington K Gass OW 16 mm argon Pikington Optiwhite 0.78 0.18 1.5 0.79 Yes Pikington K Gass S 16 mm argon Pikington Optiwhite 0.81 0.12 1.2 0.75 Yes Pikington Spacia 0.2 mm Pikington Spacia 0.78 0.13 1.4 0.67 Yes vacuum gazing *Standard doube gazing For more information on Pikington energikare Tripe visit pikington.com/spectrum
Pikington energikare Features & Benefits Features Benefits Branding & promotion Branded Pikington energikare abe on every Confidence of knowing it contains IGU make up Insuating Gass Unit (IGU). recommended by us. Vaue added, differentiated premium product. Improve your business profitabiity by meeting consumer demand. Offering an energy-efficient gazing system that wi hep homeowners reduce their energy usage from a brand they know and trust. Support of ongoing promotiona activity. Stimuates more demand. Utiising gass from the Pikington K Gass range. The UK s eading ow-e gass range. Utiising Pikington Optiwhite. Higher ight and soar heat transmission than standard foat gass. Toughens at simiar settings to cear foat gass and usuay no toughening equipment changes are required. Product performance High ight transmission through the use of Pikington Optiwhite. Interiors are brighter and there s ess of a need for ighting during the day. The Pikington energikare range aows the fexibiity to achieve Windows rated B and above are eigibe to appy for Energy the highest BFRC Window Energy Rating (WER) of band A Saving Recommended status within the Energy Saving Trust. in a framing types. IGUs containing products from the Pikington K Gass range Heps reduce heat oss. for optimum U-vaue. High soar gain. Use of Pikington Optiwhite with Pikington K Gass benefits from free heat from the sun reduces heating requirements saving energy and money. Energy efficient. It is twice as energy efficient as uncoated doube gazing - it oses ess than haf the heat. Reduces home energy usage. When compared to singe gazed windows being repaced it saves around 20% on home heating bis. Reduces heat oss. When compared to singe gazed being repaced it reduces heat oss by at east 90%. Product quaity Product manufactured ony by our own branches or icensed IGU processors. Reassurance of brand through franchised scheme with fu certification checks. Gas fied units to EN 1279 Part 3. Customers have reassurance of our expertise. Products are manufactured and suppied according to a necessary nationa and European standards. Suppied through our own branches as we as independent approved customers. Pikington energikare is avaiabe through icensed IGU processors and in windows from registered window company partners. The high therma performance argon gas fiing meets tight European quaity standards and is designed to ast the ifetime of the unit. www.pikington.co.uk/energikare
Features Can use standard auminium or warm edge spacer bar. Benefits Processor benefits Easy to meet requirements for Buiding Reguations Part L using your existing processing technoogy. Homeowner benefits It can reduce heating bis by over 20% every year. It can be used in upvc, timber and meta framed windows. A typica semi-detached house, upgrading from singe gazing coud save over 9,000* over the ifetime of the windows. It is manufactured to the highest British and European quaity standards It can reduce home CO 2 emissions by over 1 tonne each year Instaation certificate avaiabe for homeowners free of charge It offers the reassurance of Pikington brand and expertise * Based on Pikington s assumption of energy prices increasing by 10% per annum. Window ifetime assumed to be 20 years. Pease visit www.pikington.co.uk/energikare for more information. www.pikington.co.uk/energikare
YOUR LOCAL SUPPLIER: This pubication provides ony a genera description of the product. Further, more detaied information may be obtained from your oca suppier of Pikington products. It is the responsibiity of the user to ensure that the use of this product is appropriate for any particuar appication and that such use compies with a reevant egisation, standards, code of practice and other requirements. To the fuest extent permitted by appicabe aws, Nippon Sheet Gass Co. Ltd. and its subsidiary companies discaim a iabiity for any error in or omission from this pubication and for a consequences of reying on it. Pease note that imagery throughout is for iustration purposes ony. CE marking confirms that a product compies with its reevant harmonised European Norm. The CE marking abe for each product, incuding decared vaues, can be found at www.pikington.com/ce Pikington United Kingdom Ltd Prescot Road, St Heens, WA10 3TT United Kingdom Teephone 01744 692000 Fax 01744 692880 pikington@respond.uk.com www.pikington.co.uk Saes Aid 6682 Juy 2012