Glass

[ditchy]

I know this is a long shot. Does any one have a spare sheet of glass 50 cm x 72 ish? I'm in the East Midlands. Willing to travel.

[dor]

What is it for? Really, all glass used on a boat should be at lest toughened, if not laminated.

[onionbargee]

Any glass supply trade counter will cut you any size while you wait. Bog standard glass is not expensive.

[RLWP]

Any glass supply trade counter will cut you any size while you wait. Bog standard glass is not expensive.

 

Isn't bog standard glass all lumpy?

 

 

Richard

[Murflynn]

 

Isn't bog standard glass all lumpy?

 

 

Richard

only the public variety.

[ditchy]

What is it for? Really, all glass used on a boat should be at lest toughened, if not laminated.

oh yeah. forgot to mention, its for a narrowboat and need to be toughened.

Though Id ask here first as it might be quicker than getting some sent away to be toughened.

[sueb]

What is it for? Really, all glass used on a boat should be at lest toughened, if not laminated.

 

Should it? We had the thinest possible on our front doors. If someone broke in they would cut themselves.

[Wanderer Vagabond]

 

Should it? We had the thinest possible on our front doors. If someone broke in they would cut themselves.

Wont that work to your disadvantage is someone trips and falls against them?

[Murflynn]

 

Should it? We had the thinest possible on our front doors. If someone broke in they would cut themselves.

I believe that installing plain non-toughened glass in a door is illegal according to building regs.

[Dyertribe]

oh yeah. forgot to mention, its for a narrowboat and need to be toughened.

Though Id ask here first as it might be quicker than getting some sent away to be toughened.

You can't cut toughened glass, you have to cut it then toughen it.

[Phil Ambrose]

You can't cut toughened glass, you have to cut it then toughen it.

Beaten to it.

Phil

[MtB]

You can't cut toughened glass, you have to cut it then toughen it.

 

 

I can cut it into lots of random 5mm shapes....

[rasputin]

I believe that installing plain non-toughened glass in a door is illegal according to building regs.

 

Building regs, on a canal boat?

[chazzy]

Laminated glass would be OK can be taken from stock and cut to size as needed but is normally 6.5mm thick.

[DHutch]

Beaten to it.

 

Ditto.

 

Which is why half our wheelhouse is now laminated not toughened as it can be cut 'while you wait' where toughened can not. Most but not all frames will take 6mm glass.

 

Plate glass on a narrowboat is maddness IMO, and as said, your not allowed it in the door of a house, in windows under a certain height (.9m?) , within I think half a metre of a doorway.

 

 

Daniel

[Dyertribe]

 

 

I can cut it into lots of random 5mm shapes....

and then stick it onto a glass vase, grout it, call it a candle holder and sell for extortionate amounts in a craft fair......