Euro
Frameless Shower Door & Bath Screen Edge
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Flat Polish
Flat Polish
is the standard edge work for Euro Frameless
Shower Doors. Since the Euro Shower Door
glass is thick (3/8" or 1/2")
you can see into the glass. We polish all
of the edges of the glass not just the exposed
edges, to make sure you clean reflections.
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Pencil Polish
This an optional edge work
which can be used on Bath Screens. |
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Frameless shower doors are built using thick safety
tempered glass. The thick glass (3/8" or 1/2" )
glass is rigid enough to be use structurally, eliminating
the need for all of the metal frames used in typical
showers. In this section we will attempt to display
the color and degree of obscurity the glass provides. |
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Clear
Glass |
Available
in 3/8" and 1/2" |
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same type of glass used in windows.
Notice that there is a slight greenish
tint to the glass. Window glass
is usually 1/8" thick so you
don't notice the color. The thicker
the glass the more pronounced the
color becomes. The edges of the
glass show the color the strongest
because you are looking into inches
of glass. |
| <= 3/8" Clear
glass |
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Crystal
Clear Glass |
| Available in 3/8" and
1/2" |
| This is special glass
produced by the glass manufactures once
a year using special sand to produce clear
glass. There can be availability issues
with this glass. |
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| <= 3/8" Crystal
Clear glass |
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Gray
Glass |
| Available in
3/8" and 1/2" |
| Care should be taken
on where a colored glass is used. If
the bathroom has lots of light, or if
light source, or window in the shower
using a colored class can be striking,
but used in the wrong situation it can
create a very dark corner in the bathroom |
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| <= 3/8" Gray
glass shown |
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Bronze
Glass |
| Available
in 3/8" and 1/2" |
| Care should be taken
on where a colored glass is used.
If the bathroom has lots of light,
or if light source, or window in the
shower using a colored class can be
striking, but used in the wrong situation
it can create a very dark corner in
the bathroom. |
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| <= 3/8" Bronze
glass |
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Frosted
Glass |
| Available
in 3/8" and 1/2" |
| Frosted glass is
typically clear glass which has been
sandblasted on the outside surface,
but any glass type can be treated
with this process. As shown it offers
the best obscurity. We offer a full
family of design which can be processed
as clear design on frosted glass,
or frosted design on clear glass. |
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3/8" Frosted glass |
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Baroque
Glass |
| Available in 3/8" |
| This is a new glass type offered
by PPG. There is a grain to the design which
is normally put vertically on the shower door
. The texture is on the out side of the glass,
with relatively smooth inside surface. |
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Rain
Glass |
| Available in 3/8" |
| This is textured clear
glass that looks like rain drops running
down the glass. The grain of the glass
runs vertically. |
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Glue Chip
Glass |
| Available in 3/8" |
| This is rolled textured clear
glass with a fern like texture similar to Glue
Chip glass. |
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Clear Granite
Glass |
| Available in 3/8" and
1/2" |
| This is a textured clear glass
that has patches of clear against frosted glass.
The pattern is random and will vary from panel
to panel. |
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| <= 3/8" Clear
Granite glass |
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Gray Granite |
| Available in 3/8" |
| This is a textured gray glass
that has patches of gray glass against frosted
gray glass. The pattern is random and will vary
from panel to panel. |
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| <= 3/8" Gray Granite
glass |
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Bronze Granite |
| Available in 3/8" or
1/2" |
| This is a textured bronze glass
that has patches of bronze glass against frosted
bronze glass. The pattern is random and will vary
from panel to panel. |
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| Tempered Safety Glass |
Our showers are built with
Safety Tempered Glass. The typical process
for making Safety Tempered Glass is to start
with regular annealed glass, and run it through
a tempering oven which heats it up to about
1200 degrees and then quenches the glass with
cool air. The air hardens the outside of the
glass quickly. The inside core cools more
slowly, but with the outside fixed internal
stresses buildup inside the glass as the center
core area shrinks as it cools. These internal
stresses are what makes the tempered glass
stronger, and make it safety glass. Safety
glass can break, but if it does break it will
break into small pieces instantly. You can
still get cut with safety glass, but the injuries
are typically minor. Always wear safety glasses
when working with any kind of glass. Once
glass is made into safety glass it is not
possible to cut or drill holes without causing
the glass to explode.
There is a small permanent
logo is etched into each piece of safety glass
identifying it as safety glass. Most building
departments require and will look for the
tempering logos during a site inspection. |
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