Impact-Resistant Glass
Protect your home with impact-resistant glass. When strong hurricane winds enter a home through broken windows or doors, the increased pressure can lift off the roof and harm the structural integrity of your home. While completely hurricane-proof windows, doors and homes don’t exist, our impact-resistant products provide added safety and security.
Superior Protection from the Elements
How It Works
An exceptionally strong polymer layer located between two panes of glass provides reinforcement and holds the glass together even if it shatters. This helps prevent damage and injury caused by wind, water and debris. For the best performance, the laminated glass may be located on either the interior or exterior pane of insulating glass, depending on the product.
Added Safety and Security
Pella’s impact-resistant glass helps prevent forced entry. The interlayer cannot be easily penetrated, even if the glass shatters. This provides added protection from intruders and storms, meaning storm shutters are no longer necessary.
Tested to Meet Stringent Building Codes12
We believe in going beyond the ordinary to deliver products you can trust. To test the laminated glass rated to an ASTM E1996 missile D rating, we fire a 2"x4" at 50 feet per second at the window. The window and laminate need to remain intact to prevent a large rush of air and debris from entering the home. After impact, we subject the window to 9,000 cycles of hurricane pressures to help ensure the window will remain intact.
Unwavering Hurricane Protection
See our hurricane testing in action. We fire a two-by-four at 50 feet per second at the window to test the laminated glass. The window and laminate need to remain intact to prevent a large rush of air and debris from entering the home, which could create enough pressure to lift the roof off causing the walls to blow over.
Transcript
This is the Pella hurricane test where we fire a 2x4 at 50 feet per second towards the window.
The window has laminated glass that's going to help protect the home from flying debris during a hurricane. The window and laminate needs to remain intact during hurricane to avoid a large rush of air from entering the home. If a large rush of air pressurizes the home during a hurricane, the pressure can lift the roof off of the home and the walls can blow over.
The other thing we do is after the impact of the 2x4, we'll cycle the window 9,000 times at hurricane pressures to help ensure that if flying debris does impact the window, and an experience is positive and negative wind pressure from a hurricane, the window will remain intact.
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