Eliterglass Balustrade Glass Design

It’s the perfect decorative for interior landings, decks, staircases, balconies, high walkways.

Glass balustrades are safety glass, commonly it’s tempered glass or laminated glass.

Toughened Laminated Balustrade Glass

1. Toughened glass used in glass balustrades are 10mm, 12mm,15mm,19mm are also available.

2. Toughened laminated glass, 6+1.52+6, 8 +1.52+8,10+1.52+10,12+1.52+12 etc.

3. Glass surface treatments such as silkscreen to make glass more patterns, or Frosted.

4. The self-cleaning treatment enables 10 years warranty,

5. And anti-reflective glass to increase glass visual light transmittance all helps glass balustrade be more beautiful.

The glass balustrade must be designed and installed according to strict regulations to make it more reliable and

withstand the constant use pressures.

Balustrade Glass Height

The minimum height requirement for all glass balustrades should be 900mm from the point that it is stood on, up to the height of the handrail.

Alternatively, if you intend to install a glass balustrade on the exterior of your building, the minimum height to the handrail must be 1.1m high.

The reason for this is fairly self-explanatory – it is principally to help protect everyone – adventurous adults, children, and animals – from accidentally falling over the edge.

Loading Requirements

There are three load requirements that you will need to comply with:

Horizontal loading on the handrail, vertical loading on the handrail, and loading on the infill.

Usually, the deflection caused by a heavy load must never exceed 25mm.

For this reason, the material you source from your glass suppliers needs to be extremely strong and tough, to cope with whatever life may throw at it!

As a rule of thumb to follow, domestic glass balustrades need to withstand 0.74 kN/m for every meter of the balustrade. Tempered or laminated glass infills must also measure a minimum of 10mm in thickness.

Laminated glass is always strong, but its infill must be tested for both distributed load and point load, making absolutely sure that the infill in the center of the laminated panel can endure evenly distributed weight as well as concentrated pressure on one small point.

Eliterglass is an experienced glass supplier providing both toughened and laminated glass for global customers.

Also is your reliable building and interior glass supplier, kindly contact us if you have a project that needs help.

Category: Laminated glass,  Tempered glass,  Curved Balustrade glass