ᐅ Experiences with Your Windows

Hello everyone,

I am currently facing the difficult decision of which material to choose for our windows. The options are either uPVC windows or uPVC windows with a colored aluminum cladding.

Our carpenter told me that if we want windows in RAL 7016, he would install the ones with the colored cladding because regular uPVC windows with a colored foil coating can heat up so much that the windows might warp.

Therefore, my question(s):

- Which option do you have or would you choose?
- If you have foil-coated uPVC windows, how long have you had them, and have you experienced any issues?
- Does anyone have experience with how much more expensive uPVC windows with cladding are compared to those without?

Thanks in advance.

We currently live in a house with mahogany windows. Over the past 10 years, three window units have been replaced with dark brown, mahogany-effect uPVC. These do not warp.

Nordlys schrieb:
We currently live in a house with mahogany windows. Three window units have been replaced in the last 10 years with dark brown PVC windows that imitate mahogany. These have not warped.

Probably because they are solid-colored throughout and not foiled?

I do not know that.

Using aluminum would be about 15-20% more expensive than using plastic, when comparing proper quality materials (and I wouldn’t bother with cheap plastic at all, let alone foil it). So I wonder, how much price difference would there still be with plastic covered by aluminum cladding (or looked at the other way around, aluminum with a plastic core), and do you still consider that “worth it”?

Car advertising wrap specialists offer a 3-year warranty on full-surface wraps – a short period for a window. There are no metal-colored granulates available, neither solid nor as a foil. Therefore, I don’t trust the weather resistance, abrasion resistance, or lightfastness of the surface in this case.

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