Glazing Options

We offer all types of glazing in our products.  We can offer a glass solution to fit your needs, whatever the specification may be.

Doors

All our doors come with safety toughened glass and where applicable laminated glass can be used to meet new security building regulations. We also offer bevelled and decorative glass to make your door exactly as you want it.

Windows

Our windows come with various options for glazing. Our standard option is double glazed to meet current building regulation U values. Traditional style windows can be putty glazed to stay in keeping with the properties aesthetics. Windows under 800mm from floor level are required to be safety toughened so please let us know the heights of window aperatures.

Staircases

We offer a variety of glazing for stair balustrades.

Free standing glass – glass panels are inserted into a track on the floor so no newel posts or handrails are required. Quite an industrial look but getting more popular.

Newel only – glass is held in place with brackets attached to the sides of newel posts and basrail allowing for the omitting of handrails. This gives a modern look and requires the use of laminated glass

Full frame – glass is set in between the newels, handrail and baserail. The glass can be held with brackets attached to either the handrail and baserail or the newel posts, or the glass is sat in a groove in both the handrail and basrail. This gives a modern twist on the traditional looking balustrade and appears brighter than using spindles.

Putty & Heritage Glazing

We offer 2 types of putty glazing to complient your joinery. If single glazing is required then traditional linseed oil putty is used. If double glazed heritage units are specified then Heritage putty can be used. This gives the exact same look as traditional putty but will not cause the double glazed units to break down and fail.

Duplex & Georgian Style

If you require georgian bars in your joinery we offer 2 options. The traditional georgian bar sash where timber bars are made as part of the window sash and require individual glass units in each area. This is the more expensive option but is the traditional method. The new Duplex system gives the same look but uses a standard sash with one glass unit. The glass unit is divided using spacer bar and beading is then adhered to the glass internally and externally to give the look of individual paynes of glass. This is cheaper than the traditional method due to the labour and number of glass units involved.

Safety Glass

To adhere to building regulations we supply all neccessary joinery with safety glass.

Tempered or toughened glass is a type of safety glass processed by controlled thermal or chemical treatments to increase its strength compared with normal glass. Tempering puts the outer surfaces into compression and the interior into tension. Such stresses cause the glass, when broken, to crumble into small granular chunks instead of splintering into jagged shards as plate glass (a.k.a. annealed glass) does. The granular chunks are less likely to cause injury.

Laminated glass is a type of safety glass that holds together when shattered. In the event of breaking, it is held in place by an interlayer, typically of polyvinyl butyral (PVB) or ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA), between its two or more layers of glass. The interlayer keeps the layers of glass bonded even when broken, and its high strength prevents the glass from breaking up into large sharp pieces. This produces a characteristic “spider web” cracking pattern when the impact is not enough to completely pierce the glass.

Integral Blinds

We now offer Uniblind Integral blinds in both Venetian and Pleated styles.