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While often used in projects for functionality and appearance, glass is also a material that keeps your property and those inside safe.
It’s often said, “What’s old is new again.”
Old-style patterned glass brightens up modern spaces or gives new life to a historic building.
Floralite textured glass combines a retro style with the elegance of nature to improve the aesthetics of your project.
Nothing sets a bathroom apart like a custom glass shower enclosure.
Sleek and modern, a glass enclosure is an upgrade to the traditional shower.
As the bathroom is one of the last places you’d want to worry about safety, integrating glass into a shower enclosure’s design must be done carefully -- using the wrong glass type is dangerous.
As those in the commercial and residential construction industry know, tempered glass is nearly 5x stronger than regular annealed glass. Tempering means heating the glass to extreme temperatures and rapidly putting it through a high-pressure cooling process.
This procedure puts stress on the glass, which in turn produces tension that begins in the center of the piece and spreads out. The tension is then compressed on the outer edges, which gives the glass sheet its strength.
How is glass tempered? Here's a “behind the scenes” look at the five-step glass tempering process.
