Tempered glass must be used for all glass adjacent to stairs ramps and landings if the glass is located within 36 inches of a walking surface.
Tempered glass by doors.
And the exposed surface of the glass is less than 60.
Building envelope and architectural glass applications.
Select glass strength option and choose tempered glass.
Custom shower walls and passage 60 in.
Beyond items like tempered glass shelves table tops and other custom cut tempered glass we also offer tempered glass panels and tempered glass sheets.
There are also four exception allowed as noted below in the citation from the residential edition of the florida building code fbc and the international residential code irc.
Custom tempered glass.
Features frameless shower with barn door type sliding operation coordinates with passage 60 in.
In fact the shower doors in your bathroom or the side glass on a motor vehicle are examples of tempered glass.
The process that creates this strengthened glass also makes it.
Glass in walls enclosing stairway landings or within 5 feet of the bottom and top of stairways where the bottom edge of the glass is less than 60 above a walking surface.
According to the irc all glass panels in fixed sliding swinging operable or bifold doors should have tempered glass or laminated glass installed.
Thick tempered glass for safety easy to clean glass helps prevent streaking by sheeting the water to carry away dirt reversible door opening installs with sliding door on left or right.
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.
Any glass within 24 inches of a door along the same wall as the door or perpendicular to it that is less than 60 inches above the floor must be safety tempered glass.
Shower base clear 3 8 in.
Another benefit of tempered glass is the ability to stand up to moderate heat 470 f.
You can select tempered glass on any of the windows you order from discount door and window.
Sometimes called safety glass or toughened glass tempered glass panels offer more tensile strength bendability and wind resistance.
Tempered glass has a wide variety of uses that you ll find just about everywhere.
Our team is skilled in manufacturing custom tempered glass for a variety of applications including.
Any glass that is within 24 inches of a doorway must be made of tempered glass if the bottom edge of the glass is 60 inches or less above the walking surface.