360 Square Feet Single Bedroom Low Budget Home Design
Plastic is popular as a substitute for glass to deal with many of its shortcomings. It is lightweight, durable and inexpensive. It is easy to obtain and does not require any special tool or experience. However, all plastics, especially for outdoor applications, can not meet the stringent requirements and quality required in the home. Polycarbonate, which is a relatively new thermoplastic resin, patented by Bayer in 1953, is no exception.
Polycarbonate is very strong at an affordable price and is widely adopted because it can be adapted to different uses. It is used in glasses, automobiles, aviation industry. It is used for the production of DVD and electronic equipment. By extruding polycarbonate to a complicated shape, manufacturers devised ways to increase strength and improve thermal properties, but this was an economical but equally feasible alternative to glass. Let’s take a close look at the materials and their uses.