How To Choose The Right Polycarbonate Sheets For Your ...

Are you considering your next DIY project? Perhaps you're thinking about building a carport, a greenhouse, or a garden balcony? Polycarbonate Sheet is an ideal choice for these projects and many others. Polycarbonate is a tough, resilient, and durable material, making the sheets easy to handle and instal, and delivering excellent results for any project. Using polycarbonate roofing sheets is a simple and cost-effective way to create more usable space for your home and garden. With various sheet thicknesses available, we'll guide you on how to choose the best one for your next project.

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What is Polycarbonate Sheets?

 

Polycarbonate sheet is a type of strong, lightweight plastic material known for its durability, impact resistance, and versatility. It is made from polycarbonate resin, a thermoplastic material with many properties, making it suitable for a wide range of projects. Polycarbonate sheets are widely used in a variety of applications due to their unique properties.

 

Type of Polycarbonate Sheet

 

Polycarbonate sheets are available in various sizes and designs. Each type of polycarbonate sheet has specific properties that make it an excellent choice for different applications. No matter what you plan to create with polycarbonate sheet, we can help you find the best polycarbonate sheets for your next project.

 

Multi-wall polycarbonate sheet is one of the most popular plastic building materials for roofing, greenhouses, skylights, facade walls, cladding, etc all over the world. Its unique hollow structure makes it excellent at heat retention, light transmission, and anti-strike. Besides, it's lightweight and easy to mount.

Multi-wall polycarbonate sheet

 

Twin-wall polycarbonate sheets are one of the most popular polycarbonate sheet choices and around 80% of the multi-wall PC panels sales volume due to its excellent performance and affordable cost. With its hollow structure and transparency, it's good at heat retention, and light transmission. This makes it the main building material for the greenhouse, roofing, and facade building materials.

Twin-wall polycarbonate sheets size

Note: Custom fabrication is available.

 

Solid polycarbonate sheet is one of the major engineering materials all over the world and it becomes more and more prevailing in the last few decades as the alternative material to glass, acrylic, and tempered glass. It's widely used in roofing materials, facade materials, automotive components, protective gear, and exterior lighting fixtures.

Solid Polycarbonate sheet size

 

 

Corrugated polycarbonate sheets is a kind of solid polycarbonate sheet with a wave-shaped surface. It's popular all over the world, especially as the roofing material due to its light transmittance, anti-impact performance, and affordable price.

Corrugated polycarbonate sheet Size

How to Choose The Right Thickness For Your Project?

 

Deciding which polycarbonate sheets are right for you is important. You need to consider certain factors. What will your structure be used for? How big is it? How big are the spans between the timber frame? How exposed to the weather is it? How much light transmission would you like? Once you have evaluated all the factors that go into choosing the best polycarbonate sheet for you, you can make a considered decision. The balance between cost and quality is also important, if your new structure is well-made, and will last for many years, so consider it an investment in your home and quality of life.

 

Hebei Sinostar, One-stop Solution for Polycarbonate Sheets

 

Hebei Sinostar supply solid polycarbonate sheets, multi-wall polycarbonate sheets, corrugated polycarbonate sheets, embossed polycarbonate sheets, greenhouse panels, and other polycarbonate products to our clients globally with guaranteed quality and prompt delivery. What's more, fabrication & molding service is also available to make your unique products.

 

Why choose Hebei Sinostar?

 

Direct Factory Supply

Hebei Sinostar has five self-owned mills to manufacture and deliver kinds of polycarbonate products to our global customers.

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Hebei Sinostar has a QC team with over 30 professional stuffs and a complete quality control system to guarantee the final quality.

 

Prompt Delivery

You can track your goods during production anytime with only an easy click in our digital system.

 

 Frequently asked questions

Q: Do you have a MOQ?

A: Yes, our MOQ is one ton for each type. But at the same time, trial order in small quantity is supported to help you test the market and quality inspection.

Q: Can you help design my package to help grow my brand?

A: Yes, we have our design team to help you with this issue to grow your brand.

Q: What is the MAX light transmission rate of corrugated polycarbonate sheet?

A: It's up to around 92%.

Q: Can you cut the polycarbonate roof to the size required?

A: Sure, our mill can cut the size to any size you required. But have to mention, the extra handling cost has to be taken into consideration.

Q: What's the common width of the polycarbonate sheet?

A: Commonly we make it to mm or mm. Please let us know if any special needs.

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Need help choosing the right colour of polycarbonate roofing?

Polycarbonate sheets come in a amazing variety of colours and shades.  In this post we will outline a few things you may want to consider when making your colour selection.

Polycarbonate Colours: Light = Heat

As a general rule, the more light that comes through the sheet the hotter it will feel under the sheet.  There are a few exceptions to this rule and these tend to be the premium ranges in the different brands of polycarbonate sheeting.  For example, Suntuf has a SolarSmart range and Laserlite have a  range.  These types of sheets help to skew the amount of light available without letting as much heat through.  They are able to reflect more of the heat.

In warmer areas of Australia like Queensland or Darwin &#; we generally caution people against using clear sheeting.  In cooler parts of Australia clear can be a great option.

Environmental specifics

Other environmental factors should also play a part in your decision making:

Orientation. Western facing areas may get the hot afternoon sun, for example.  This means that if you&#;re using polycarbonate roofing for a BBQ patio area you may require cooler coloured sheeting.

Roof height. Hot air rises. So the lower the roof the warmer an area may feel. Another factor is how much air flow the area will get. Do you get good breezes coming into the area?

Shading. Trees or buildings may offer shade over your area a certain times of the day. Consider the time of day you expect you will want to use your polycarbonate covered area the most. This may mean that you can afford to go for a colour that lets more light through during the times when its not shaded.

Lighting. Do you require lots of light to a particular part of the house?  Polycarbonates can be used in conjunction with Metal roofing to create light over the areas where you need it most.  If you are really concerned about heat, have a look at Durashield. Durashield is an alternative to metal roofing.  It is made from PVC, so it wont let any light through (like metal), but it is much cooler as it does not radiate heat.

Aesthetics. You may want to match the colour scheme to existing parts of the house.  You may wish to create privacy with a more opaque choice. You may be after a striking feature colour. Whatever your vision, you are sure to find great options across our wide range of polycarbonate sheeting products.

Explaining the Numbers

SHGC

Solar Heat Gain Coefficient or SHGC is a number that describes how much heat passes through a material.  It is the amount of solar radiation that passes through the material as well as heat absorbed and released inward.  It is expressed as a number between 0 and 1 &#; the lower the number the less the heat.  In a hot area you would want a product with a low SHGC number.

U values

U-value is the measure of how well heat is transferred through a material. The lower the U-value the more insulation the material offers &#; the better it is at keeping the heat or cold out.  You will notice that this is mostly effected by the material and how thick the material is.

In summary, you&#;re sure to find the perfect colour to suit your needs as there are plenty of colour options when looking at polycarbonate sheets. To choose the colour that will give you the right heat/light scenario for your space, be sure to consider what you use the area for, when you use it and specific environmental factors when making a decision on what colour is going to best suit you.

Have a look at our other pages to see what polycarbonate colours are available in each for the product ranges.

Take a look at the colours available for all our polycarbonate products.

If you want to learn more, please visit our website PC Corrugated Sheet.