Quitest Windows

[leemanning]

Have recently moved into a new house that has timber double glazing. The house was built around 15 years ago and these are the original windows.
I'm looking to replace them with whatever is the quietest windows you can get.

Have had a good research online, but comparisons only seem to be drawn on price rather than quality.

I wondered if anyone's had experience in getting new windows that were significantly quieter than previous double glazing and what you went for?

[dogz]

We bought residence 9 windows with acoustic glass. There are different grades of acoustic glass. We went for 8.8mm. It does make a difference over normal double glazing

[mikeiow]

If it is noise isolation, I was told that was the reason for triple glazing....
TBH, we went from fairly old wooden double glazing to some 20mm argon-filled Evolution Storm-2 double-glazed, and the difference was immense! Not that we are in a particularly noisy area.

[eliot]

I've got triple glazing all round, cost not massively different if you stick to local specialists rather than anyone who advertises on the telly.
There are two types, tripple glazed panels that fit into a double glazed frame by having a smaller gap between panes or the thicker units with bigger gaps. The ones with the bigger gap are quieter.

[jakesmith]

The most effective noise reduction is through secondary glazing, it is the air gap that does it more than fancy types of glass

[leemanning]

Thanks guys, will get in contact with them and see what they can offer.

[Lesgrandepotato]

Supposedly the trickle vents are big issues for letting noise through.. may be wise to engineer them out if you can

[mel]

I moved into a pair of old cottages to convert into one house which is right on a main road, the first night I moved in I questioned what the hell I'd done as the traffic noise sent me up the wall. A good chat with a personally recommended one man band taught me a lot in that triple glazing makes almost FA difference for insulation and if you go with any of the "triple for the price of double" deals from the big companies you won't see any real noise reduction either! This is because although there are three sheets of glass the middle one is about as thin as they can get and the frame is exactly the same width as the double. In the end we ended up with either 36 or 38mm frames (can't remember) which was effectively a normal double glazed frame plus half again, combined with what he said was an "acoustic" layer, they have been brilliant. When you close them you get the same feeling as closing a watertight door on a warship and you know they are blocking out as much as they can.

We did also get a quote from an "Acoustic Glazing" specialist but being brutally honest he was a knob. He wanted to set up sound monitoring equipment for a week, then analyse it before producing a report recommending glass types, thicknesses, spacings, and frame material. The man was so boring that the only thing that glazed over in the house was my facial expressions. It may well of been brilliant but it was nearly a grand a window and I simply couldn't have worked with him.