TOP SWING – is a kind of window used in residential housing in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and England, both in new buildings as well as in modernisation of those, that already exist.
It is a reversible window that rotates in horizontal axis by 180 degrees, opens outward and is equipped in blockades that allow staying the sash in two positions.
Characteristics :
- depth of frame 110mm and 120mm with aluminium cladding (ALUCLADS)
- axis of rotation in the middle of a window
- one sash windows with two hinges
- glass-units apply with thickness 26 to 36mm in two or three panes of glass, with the aluminium cladding glazed in 36mm glass-units as an option
- windows are painted in any opaque colour (the paints branded SIKKENS) according to the palette NCS or another tranluscent colour branded TECKNOS
- species of wood: pine glue laminated
- glazing bead made of expanded plastic in the case of the white colour NCS S 0502 Y
- possibility to manufacture a one sash window 2190mm wide by the maximum height 1290mm
Standard equipment:
- aluminium drip ALURON on a sash
- opening blockade – a restrictor
- ventilation blocked by a handle
- handle branded IPA in the silver colour
- hinges: SPILKA CLASSIC
- foam sealing branded Q-LON in the frame
- sash sealing TRELLEBORG
Option:
- handle with a key
- hande with a button
- milling of a groove for furing
- installation holes for screws
- aluminium cladding branded ALURON
- undercut for an external sill
- possibility to choose glass-units with enhanced burglary resistance, ornament glass, reflection glass, safety and many more
- internal glazing bars between-glass, sized 8-45mm
- glued-on glazing bars sized 30 mm,
- structural glazing bars sized 60mm wide
- air-inlet branded SPILVENT, width 30 and 50mm
- possibility of painting in double colours
- imitation of archs in sashes
- anti-burglary elements
Advantages :
- solid and durable structure of a window
- easy to keep clean on both sides
- more of day-light
- especially useful construction for hard to reach spots placed on upper levels
- unbounded space inside a room, thanks to opening outward
- they allow air exchange, warm air exhausts through top while fresh air goes through bottom part