Showing posts with label shower door. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shower door. Show all posts

Friday, October 24, 2014

Shattering Sharp Shards of Conventional Glass - Get Custom Tempered Glass

Shattering Sharp Shards of Conventional Glass - Get Custom Tempered Glass

Custom glass is the first option of many people when it is about home decoration. The popularity of the glass these days are on the rise. There are also colored glasses which are made by adding metallic salts. The glasses are then used as part of shelves, doors, or windows and also in various decorative pieces. It is easy to incorporate these glasses in different mediums including wood, plastic, stone, metal or concrete. The glasses are widely used in cathedrals, churches and residential buildings.

Furthermore, here are few advantages of availing custom tempered glass:

Strong and durable: Being composed in sturdy manner with intense heating and swift cooling technique, these are extremely durable and can easily resist harsh elements of nature. Moreover, it is almost five times stronger and better than regular glass, as it breaks into tiny oval pebbles instead of harmful sharp shards. You can also opt for neo-ceramic glass which is relatively more durable and stable than the regular ones. For instance, in case of an earthquake, the non-ceramic glass will absorb the shocks while other glass types will shatter at once.

The property's look enhanced: It is one of the major advantages that these glasses offer. It increases the value of the property by imparting a unique and long lasting beauty. It also preserves it charm for a much longer time. It will give a rich and classy look to the interiors. A house having decorative custom glass incorporated in showpiece or window panel looks more beautiful than others that are devoid of such elements.





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Monday, October 13, 2014

Glass Shelves Can Transform Your Interior Design

  Today is an era where a book is often judged by its cover. Whether or not there is enough substance with respect to a subject, it is necessary to present it in a special way. The same thing applies to the home we live in. This is why maintaining a living room becomes a necessity in today's world. Your living room reflects the way your home is not to mention the way your life is as well. And so it becomes your responsibility to give it a nice look by maintaining it in a proper fashion. Evidently, this will be a tough job as there will be huge amounts of accessories, stationary, furniture, and decorative items that have to be arranged to make a living room look perfect. An instant solution to this problem could be to dump unnecessary stuff into garage or a store room and simplify the necessary stuff. And for those who wish to arrange and organize their accessories, there are wooden, plastic or glass shelves.

  Any conventional resident of the house would prefer wooden shelves because they get along well with the rest of the furniture taking into account that most furniture is in general wooden. For example, wooden tables, wooden chairs, wooden stools. However, as we look for an improved sense of beauty and architectural expertise, it is observed that glass furniture is showing new paradigms to design homes better. Glass furniture is gaining a lot of momentum these days as it has been observed that glass makes the living room look exceptionally good. Let us know how.

The very evident reason to begin with, is that they are beautiful. They make the living room look beautiful to look at considering that we have been using wooden furniture for decades and glass furniture blended with the furniture exhibits creativity which appeals very much to any human eye. A mere glance through any interior design magazine clearly shows how popular glass designs and shelves have given 21st century architecture a new dimension.


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Monday, April 14, 2014

Decorative Glass

Decorative Glass 
Decorative glass is a great way to spruce up any living space without too much expense; it’s an easy way to allow natural light into your space without sacrificing privacy. Whether you are renovating your home, building a new home or just looking to add a special touch to your existing décor, decorative glass can be just the thing for you!
At Dwight’s Glass & Mirror, we offer a variety of shapes, sizes, finishes, colors, tinting, textures and edgings for you to choose from. The experts at our showroom can guide you through your choices and help you determine the type and style of glass that will accomplish the goals you have for your space.
No matter what you have in mind for your space, if you can imagine it, we can create it!
Whether you’d like decorative glass for a shower door, entry door, window, sidelight panels, cabinet doors, glass showcases in Albuquerque or any other application you can think of, the experts at Dwight’s Glass & Mirror can help bring your dreams to life with decorative glass that is created custom for your space!
With over 4 years experience, our experts can not only help you choose the best type of glass for your application, but provide professional installation so that your decorative glass piece provides your home with beauty for years to come.

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Decorative glass

Classic Decorative Glass.com is the online home of Classic Glass Studios (Central Florida) and Classic Etch, decorative glass companies that specialize in decorative entry doors, and converting existing steel, fiberglass, or flush wood doors into beautiful glass entry points into your home. In leaded and beveled glass, we offer an enormous selection of glass inserts that range from simple, clear inserts to custom decorative leaded and beveled pieces, many of which are available in State of Florida approved Hurricane Impact Glass. Our original etched glass designs can also be inserted into your existing doors, or we can create a custom design limited only by your imagination.

The process of cutting out an existing door and installing a glass insert is the same process utilized by major door manufacturers for years but completed at their factory. Now, these affordable and efficient transformations can be achieved at a customer's home, providing an alternative to purchasing new doors. At Classic Glass Studios and Classic Etch, we understand that the idea of cutting into your existing door and fitting it with a glass insert may be new to you, so we invite you to look at our product lines and read ourFrequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page to help put yourself at ease.

And of course, when you are ready, we hope you will contact us or come visit one of our showrooms to begin shopping for the perfect design to match your personality and decor.

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Thursday, April 10, 2014

Decorative Glass NYC

Our industry produces such a variety of decorative glass types now that were unique or completely nonexistent until recent years, marketing communications manager for  Glass Company. Take digital imaging. “It was only about six years ago that digital imaging really began to take hold in our industry with equipment being to apply images to glass using ceramic frit paint. Now, we are seeing a variety of digital imaging processes available in the form of high-resolution films laminated in glass, or applied to the surface of the glass—some during production and others post-installation,".

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Friday, April 4, 2014

Decorative Glass

Decorative Glass
Surface coatings can be applied to glass to modify its appearance and give it many of the advanced characteristics and functions available in today's flat glass products, such as low maintenance, special reflection/transmission/absorption properties, scratch resistance, corrosion resistance, etc.

Coatings are usually applied by controlled exposure of the glass surface to vapours, which bind to the glass forming a permanent coating. The coating process can be applied while the glass is still in the float line with the glass still warm, producing what is known as "hard-coated" glass.

Alternatively, in the "off-line" or "vacuum" coating process, the vapour is applied to the cold glass surface in a vacuum vessel.

Coated glasses can be toughened, laminated or incorporated into an insulating glass unit.

Security Glass
Glass that is designed to resist physical attack, ballistic and bomb blasts. These products are specialist laminates that use multiple layers of glass and rigid interlayers depending on the resistance required.

Screen Printed Glass
Uses ceramic paint that is screen printed and permanently fused to the toughened glass surface.

Mirrored Glass
To produce mirrored glass, a metal coating is applied to one side of the glass. The coating is generally made of silver, aluminium, gold or chrome. For simple mirrored glass, a fully reflective metal coating is applied and then sealed with a protective layer. It can also include a vinyl backing for safety.

To produce "one-way" mirrors, a much thinner metal coating is used, with no additional sealing or otherwise opaque layer.

Mirrored glass is gaining a more prominent place in architecture, for important functional reasons as well as for the aesthetic effect.

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Monday, March 31, 2014

Architectural Decorative Glass

Over the three years of its existence, Glass has managed to build an unrivalled reputation as a leading Structural Architectural Decorative Glass.

An innovative, design-based manufacturing company, Danway Fusion Glass offers contemporary glass solutions to developers, architects, designers, consulting engineers and contractors, allowing them to specify creative standard products or to create individually tailored glass solutions that enhance the value of their projects.

Project-specific manufacturing allows Glass to supply bespoke and custom made solutions, on both large and small scales, to a very wide range of projects from architectural cladding to commissioned feature pieces that are nothing short of beautiful.

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Saturday, March 29, 2014

Decorative_Glass

Decorative Glass

Parallel to its manufacture and supply of privacy glass, DGG offers a wide range of decorative glass solutions for the most demanding interior design projects. Each one of these amazing products offers its own extremely diverse, quality-filled line of options. Our decorative line of glass is generally used in interior applications such as:

Furniture glass

Cabinets for bathrooms

Splash backs

Stairs and stair flights

Shop windows

Glass partitions and room dividers

Tables, bedside-tables, glass counter tops

Decorative glass windows

Our line of decorative glass panels are sandwiched inside a laminated glass to bring multi-functional properties. The decorative laminated glass panels can be manufactured as safety rated glass in order to apply them indoors and other safety rated areas. In addition, our line of decorative glass products will untimely cut down sound transmission values while being structurally safe and stylish.

All our decorative glass wall panels are produced under vacuum lamination with EVA film (being made from polymeric resins of ethylene vinyl acetate). Known advantages for using EVA are:

Excellent transparency

Extremely durable

Humidity resistance


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Friday, March 28, 2014

Decoration

This decorative glass has a linear design with small lines of clear separated by larger lines of gently frosted obscurity.
The Pilkington Decorative Range of Decorative Glass
Pilkington Decorative Glass - a range of standard or bespoke designs such as Leaded Lights, Georgian or Cottage bars, Stained Glass, Bevelled or Brilliant Cut which can be incorporated into insulating glass units like Pilkington Insulight™.
Pilkington Optilam I - laminated glass with coloured interlayers offering a wider choice of colours than body tinted glass for greater design options.
Pilkington Optifloat Opal - high quality translucent float glass that offers high light transmission, excellent privacy and easy handling.
This decorative glass add a bit more privacy and separation, yet still allow the light to flow through them and are available at decorativeglassnyc.com

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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Decorative Glass
The advantages of etched, cut, sandblasted, textured and other decorative glass designs are clear: Privacy can be customized, while light still pours from room to room, creating an open feel even in confined spaces.
Aesthetics: Our decorative glass and window films transform plain glass, capturing the look of cut or texturized glass to an astonishing degree at a fraction of the price.
Flexible: Glass Finishes allow you to tailor the amount of privacy a space possesses. Use  glass finishes monolithically to create serene “ricepaper wall” effects or layer the films to create exciting‚ dynamic effects.
Inspiring a new spectrum of creativity. The shimmering, color-shifting effect of dichroic glass is a magnificent addition to any space, but can also add substantial cost to a project.
Made of premium materials, the shimmering textures are available in warm and cool tones.  Depending on mounting surface color, viewing angle and your lighting choice,  Dichroic Glass Finishes can take on a completely different look, defining your space in a altogether original way.
Just what you'd expect from 3M Architectural Markets, where state of the art meets high design.

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Saturday, March 22, 2014

Shower Door installation

Measuring and cutting the tracks

The top and bottom tracks supplied by the manufacturer must be cut slightly shorter than the width of the your shower’s opening. As always, read the manufacturer’s installation instructions carefully before you do anything, and then follow these steps:
  1. Use a measuring tape to find the distance from wall to wall along the top edge of the shower base (or tub) and, for the top track, at 6 feet above it.
  2. Follow the manufacturer’s directions and subtract the required amount for each track from the total width of the opening.
  3. Cut both tracks to length and smooth any rough edges at the cut end with a fine file.
    Use a hacksaw and a miter box to ensure a square cut. Putting a block of scrap wood in the track and clamping helps keep the track square and in place while you cut it.

Locating the bottom track

You install the bottom track on the top edge of the shower base or tub.
  1. Place the bottom track on the flattest part of the shower base or tub ledge, following the manufacturer’s instructions to determine which side of the track faces out.
    Make sure that the space between the wall and the ends of the track is the same on both ends.
  2. Temporarily secure the track to the ledge with masking tape.
  3. Make a light pencil mark on the shower base of tub along the front edge of the track to guidecaulk application.

Locating the wall jambs

The wall jambs are fastened to the sidewalls and support the top track. Ideally, you screw the wall jambs directly to the studs. You can also use sturdy metal anchors to secure the jambs.
  1. Place a wall jamb against the wall and push it down over the end of the bottom track so that it’s fully engaged with the track.
  2. Hold a carpenter’s level next to the wall jamb and adjust it to plumb.
  3. Mark in each mounting-hole location.
  4. Remove the wall jamb and drill the holes for the mounting screws or wall anchors.
    If you’re drilling into ceramic tile, use a carbide-tipped masonry drill bit.
  5. Repeat the drilling in the opposite wall for the other wall jamb.
    Install wall anchors according to instructions where there is no stud available.

Caulking the bottom track

Lift the bottom track and apply a bead of silicone caulk into the groove on the underside. Then erase your pencil marks and reposition the bottom track in its proper place.

Installing the wall jambs

Work on one wall jamb at a time and follow these steps:
  1. Place one wall jamb into or over the bottom track, depending on the design. Then align the holes in the wall jamb with the holes or screw anchors in the wall.
  2. Secure the jamb with the screws supplied by the manufacturer or the anchor.
    Sliding door kits should include rubber bumpers. Install them over the screws at the top and bottom of the jamb.
  3. Repeat the installation on the other jamb.

Installing sliding doors

Sliding doors hang from the top track so install it over the wall jambs as directed by the manufacturer. Prepare the doors by installing roller and, if applicable, handle/towel bar hardware. Place the rollers on the top frame flange of both door panels and secure them with lock washers and machine screws.

Hanging the door panels

Installing the door panels is easiest from outside the shower. Follow the installation instructions provided, as details may vary, but the following steps are typical:
  1. Install the inside panel first. Lift it up inside the top track and bring it back to vertical as you hang the rollers on the inside rail of the top track and lower it into the bottom track.
  2. Install the outside panel by lifting it up inside the top track and hanging the rollers on the outside rail of the top track.

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