Hello friends. Last month, we sent you the decision of a reader who chose to replace ironwood doors with aluminum and glass doors with soundproofing. After using it for a while, that reader shared his personal experience as follows:
About sound insulation:
One of the reasons why we want to replace the door is that the old wooden door is not soundproof, which makes the noise from the street annoying, especially the karaoke singing at night of the “reluctant singers” living around. .
The high undulating peak is the sound of a car horn coming in from the street
I use the Sound Meter app on my phone to measure the noise level before and after installing the door. The results showed that the outside noise was reduced by about 30%.
It’s just such a humble thing, but Actual feeling is quite satisfiedand by me I only changed the door to the balcony, but the window was still left so the soundproofing effect only reaches that threshold. White noises such as traffic noise, street sounds are no longer as clear as before. There is a big difference between closing and opening now. If we replace the whole window, the effect will certainly be more obvious, but the cost is too high compared to our current financial ability.
About air tightness:
The gap of the old ironwood door
With the old wooden door, the gaps due to warping are completely visible to the naked eye, even putting a finger through. In winter, when you put your hand next to the door, you can feel the cold wind coming in.
Pump silicone into the door slot
And now with new aluminum and glass doors, the gaps between the door frame and the wall have been sealed with silicone glue, and on the door and door frame there are also rubber gaskets to increase tightness. As mentioned above, reduced noise also means increased tightness.
Door frame thickness 55mm
About insulation:
I finished installing the door on Saturday morning – the day the weather in the North turned rainy and cold. The outdoor temperature according to the application is 8 degrees Celsius, but due to high humidity, it feels very cold, and indoors, the hygrometer indicates a room temperature of about 16 degrees Celsius.
Outside and inside temperature after installing the door 2 days
I think that the temperature difference in / out of the room is not an overnight thing, but changes quickly because it also has a “latency” because the wall absorbs / gives off heat more slowly than the ambient temperature. For more than 3 days (from Wednesday to Saturday noon), my room was in a “unlucky” state without a door, so the room temperature was lower than usual, and therefore could not immediately warm up, which is understandable.
Outside and indoor temperature after installing the door 34 days
In the following days, each day in the room warmed up a little and the humidity decreased to a stable level around 24-25 degrees Celsius and 30-40% respectively after more than 1 month (34 days to be exact). ).
About aesthetics:
The door to the balcony faces south, in the summer you will see flowers blooming brilliantly
This room has an east-facing window, and the new balcony door faces south, so after being replaced, it becomes bright because now there are two directions to receive light. The neat structure of this aluminum and glass door also makes the room more youthful and modern. On the first few days, we still felt startled when we saw through the balcony and thought we forgot to close the door because we were not used to the new door.
After installing the door 4 days – the room looks so much brighter
However, around our house is very “light pollution”. At night, the street lights, the lights from the advertising signs, etc. bounce up so that the room is never completely dark. After replacing the door, we had to spend an additional amount to install a curtain to limit the light entering while sleeping (both noon and night).
Install more curtains to cover the room for the dark
Regarding the ability to save energy:
During the day, you don’t have to turn on the lights to stay on
Our children are on vacation, so they stay at home all day and spend most of their time playing in their room. Before replacing the door, the room was quite bright, but after replacing the wooden door with aluminum and glass doors, the amount of light was even more abundant, so there was no need to turn on the lights from the time I woke up in the morning until 5. 6 pm (17-18 pm).
The left window faces East, while the new balcony door faces South
4 years ago, our grandmother’s house also replaced the wooden door with Eurowindow’s uPVC steel core plastic door. Although only ordinary laminated glass was used at that time, not the 3-layer type, but the electricity bill was clearly reduced because the closed door limited heat loss when using the air conditioner in the summer, and in the winter, it was warm, so it was not a problem. use heating devices.
Therefore, we also believe that the power saving ability of this new door will not be inferior.
Replace aluminum and glass doors with XingFa vacuum insulation soundproofing
summary
After more than 1 month of using aluminum and glass vacuum doors, we draw some advantages and disadvantages like this:
About advantages:
1. Visible noise reduction;
2. Good insulation;
3. Airtight;
4. Increase aesthetics and help the room become brighter;
About the cons:
1. High price;
2. All doors must be replaced synchronously to achieve the best sound and heat insulation effect.
This is a bit too much to call it a drawback, but actually after replacing a door we saw it for ourselves want to change the remaining doors for synchronization and “happy”. Like in my house, I have to change up to 4 sets of windows, 2 doors to the room, 2 doors to the toilet, 1 main door and a little bit will be gone. more than 50 million if playing “all hands”;
3. Need to install more curtains to limit light when you want to go to sleep.
4. It takes time to repair and clean up when breaking old doors, patching and dismantling very dusty and dirty spots.