Glazing, also known as glass in a front door, is the window inside of a door. It allows in natural light and can help brighten a doorway. The glass in a front door is typically two panes of glass.
One of the most common types of home and business glass outside of traditional windows is glass doors. Safe for interior and exterior use, modern-day glass doors are made of tempered glass, energy-efficient and come in a variety of styles.
Annealed Glass
It is typically 1/8" thick and sometimes called double strength glass and is stronger than the older antique glass. Annealed glass is cuttable at home or at your shop if you are trying to replace a window or glass in your door and you need to cut the glass verses sending the glass off to a glass shop.
Sidelights are tall narrow windows found on one or both sides of a door. Sidelights allow more light into entryways, improve views, and can create a more welcoming entry point experience.
Customization - Operating Transom
Historically, operable transom windows above doors played a role in the heating and cooling in a home. Operable transoms have sashes that can be opened or closed to help regulate the temperature in a room when the door is closed.
French door (n.): A door, usually one pair, of light construction with glass panes extending for most of its length. They also can be referred to as French windows.
Tempered Glass
This is a common type of glass used in homes and is a type of annealed glass, but is four times as strong. To make tempered glass, annealed glass is cut to the desired size and then heated to around 1200 ℉ and then cooled quickly.
FLEMISH. (Obscure visibility) Flemish glass has the look of hand blown glass without the seeds, bubbles, or the price tag. Light passes through while visibility is distorted – creating some privacy. This glass type offers an old world / slightly antique look.
Reeded Glass is a patterned semi-obscure glass design that can be tempered if necessary. It has many parallel or nearly parallel bands running through the glass that diffuses light.
Rain Glass, an addition to the Obscure Glass line from MI Windows and Doors, has a pattern that resembles water trickling down a smooth sheet of glass. Beyond the visual effect, the glass provides privacy and diffuses light, while resisting stains and fingerprints.
Seedy glass, or seeded glass, includes the slight bubbles & wavy pattern found in early original flat glass. Produced using double IG (insulated glass) unit to provide safety, security, and energy efficiency.
Tempered glass is annealed glass that has been heat treated to harden and strengthen it. Tempered glass is more expensive than annealed glass because of the added heat treatment processing. In general, heat treated or tempered glass is four times stronger than annealed glass.
Tempered glass is also costly to purchase, definitely more expensive than the standard glass, but less costly than laminated glass. Depending on the preferences of a building owner, the cost is another point of difference that dictates the choice between laminated and tempered glass.
Normally, tempered glass has completely smooth edges due to the extra processing it goes through, while other types of glass usually have scuffed or ridged edges. If the edges of the glass are exposed, run your fingers along them.
What Is an Atrium Door? The most accurate way to describe an atrium door is to call it a cross between double French doors and a sliding screen door. Like French doors, an atrium door swings open. But like a sliding screen door, only one panel is operable.
Panel doors are, and have been, very popular for quite some time. Their name essentially tells you what they are – the door is crafted not of one single piece of wood or other material, but instead is comprised of panels. Each of these panels will fit together in order to create the finished door.
Side by side doors, also known as double doors, are two door configurations where both doors are next to one another. Another name for this type of doors is a French door.
When glass manufacturers temper glass, they heat up the material and then quickly cool it down to make it stronger and more durable than annealed or untreated glass. Tempered glass, or toughened glass, has been heat-treated to make it stronger and safer to prevent injury in case if it ever breaks.
Finally, there is a way to make glass both laminated and tempered. The process can be difficult and expensive, but the outcome is worth it. Many car manufacturers are switching to a tempered, laminated glass.
So, how is plate glass made? The first way of creating truly flat glass was done by pouring molten glass onto metal tables or plates and rolling it flat before leaving it to cool. This method made the plates of glass for which plate glass is named and was the traditional way of manufacturing windows and mirrors.
Annealed glass is ordinary glass, see "Float glass" (also called “flat” glass) that has not been heat-strengthened or tempered. Annealing float glass is the process of controlled cooling to prevent residual stress in the glass and is an inherent operation of the float glass manufacturing process.
There are nine types of glass - Soda glass or soda-lime glass, Coloured glass, Plate glass, Safety glass, Laminated glass, Optical glass, Pyrex glass, Photo-chromatic glass and Lead crystal glass. Soda Glass: It is the most common variety of glass. It is used for making windowpanes, tableware, bottles and bulbs.
Seeded Glass
Seeded glass (also referred as seedy glass) has very tiny bubbles that give it a unique, stylish appearance. It is commonly used in cabinets, pendant lighting, vases and lamp bases.