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The environmental benefits of glass pocket doors - energy efficiency and natural light

Pocket doors are the ideal solution for contemporary living in modern homes. They offer great space saving qualities and also enable flexibility in terms of opening and closing off temporary spaces in an open plan home. This is quite the leap for an interior feature that was once dismissed as a quirky Victorian oddity, but thanks to a 21st century renaissance is now seen as a critical and innovative feature, and one that can open up ambitious new opportunities in your home or workplace. While space creation and flexibility are perhaps the headline benefits of the pocket door, energy efficiency is another way the pocket door can enhance the quality of a building.

 

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When creating new, smaller rooms in a home or workplace, the glass pocket door is often the key to making this possible and feasible. It is common to divide a larger space into two smaller spaces, such as a small bedroom and an office in a home or new office spaces in a workplace, but often these spaces are only usable if you install a glass pocket door. An office space, whether at home or in the workplace, is only practical if you have enough space, of course, but you also need a certain amount of natural light. And if you can’t achieve this from a window, because there isn’t one, then a glass pocket door is the next best thing.

A glass pocket door enables light to enter into a small space, and therefore makes it more comfortable and less claustrophobic. In a work environment, ie. somewhere you are likely to spend a lot of continuous time over the course of a working day, your health and productivity requires a good source of natural light, otherwise a small, dim space makes you feel tired, stressful and unmotivated. But a lesser-publicised benefit of the glass pocket door is its boost for energy efficiency.

 

How does a glass pocket door improve your energy efficiency?

It should be relatively straightforward to realise how glass pocket doors can improve your energy efficiency in the home and the workplace, but there are some additional benefits you may not have thought of.

Natural light – Of course the creation of more natural light removes the need to create artificial light. Even if this is only for two or three hours over the middle of the day, this reduction in electricity demand and reliance will add up over the course of an extended period, and should reduce quarterly energy bills. Working in natural light rather than artificial light also makes people more productive, and reduces cases of fatigue.    

Heat – It may seem minimal, but natural light shining through a glass pocket door also creates a small amount of heat, particularly if this includes a little sunshine. Any amount of sun shining on glass produces heat, so if it is possible for sun to shine through a corridor or another room, and onto a glass pocket door, it can generate some heat and remove the need to produce artificial heat. Again, the cumulative effect of this is a reduction on energy bills over a period of time.

Temperature control – A final means of energy efficiency from a pocket door, is in maintaining a stable temperature in a room through the use of pocket door accessories. In this case the accessory in question is the self-close mechanism, which acts to ensure the pocket door always closes after it has been opened. This means whenever you leave your office, the door closes behind you and therefore doesn’t enable warm air to escape and for cooler air to get in. In the warmer months you might want this the other way around. Either way, your room temperature is stabilised and therefore there is less of a demand on heating systems or air conditioning. The self-close mechanism ensures a tight seal in the closed position is always achieved, and so it is much easier to maintain stable temperatures.

So in addition to space efficiency and making the overall footprint of a building more useful and less wasteful, the glass pocket door can also boost your energy efficiency. At a time when many homes and businesses are committed to reducing their carbon impact, and are looking for new ways to demonstrate their environmental credentials, installing a glass pocket door can achieve this, and also bring a host of other practical and aesthetic benefits too. So check out our range of glass pocket doors at Pocket Door Shop and make your home or workplace efficient in terms of space, flexibility and energy too.   

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