Has upgrading your conservatory glass made a difference?

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If you upgraded the glass in your conservatory has it improved the use of the room?

For example if it was too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter has this improved?

We didn't just change the glass we replaced the whole conservatory.
We had an old hardwood conservatory with a polycarbonate roof and replaced it with a new uPVC(?) one. It is double glazed and the (glass) roof apparently reflects 25% of the suns heat.

It is west facing. It used the same footprint / foundations as the previous one being approximately 7.5 metres wide by 2.4 meters deep.

It still gets hot but no unbearably so, with the transom windows opens.
It is still cool in the winter but warms up with just a fan heater. In fact on a sunny day in the winter it can act like a heat sink and warm the room its attached to. It certainly acts as an insulator to the house.

We use it most days as it is so light and airy.

Thank you for replying, that's interesting, ours is UPVC but with a polycarbonate roof currently. We had thought of changing the roof to a solid one but have been strongly advised against this due to it making the room it is attached to very dark. They are suggesting the new thermal glass is very efficient at keeping heat in during the winter and out during the summer so I was hear if people had found it worked. Ours is south facing so gets very hot during summer.

We briefly considered a solid roof, but like you it would have made the adjacent roof dark, but also we were shown a sample of it and it was very, very heavy and we were doubtful that the existing conservatory would take the weight.
Having said that, roof glass is heavy too, and I was horrified to see the two chaps standing on it whilst sealing it to the wall, but they said it is very strong and perfectly capable of the weight (it didn't break!)

Thanks, unfortunately I think it's going to be one of those things where you don't know how it will be until it is done. Very tricky to decide for the best.