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All-glass corners
An all-glass corner is two panes meeting on a mitred edge with nothing between them but a silicone line, and that line matters less than people assume. It keeps weather out, and that is the whole of its job. Each pane still carries its own weight down onto the support beneath it and still hands wind into the member above, so the element the detail really depends on is the one spanning over the corner — the only place on the elevation with no column under it. Everything else follows from having taken the post away. There is no cover strip to hide an error in, so the setting out begins at the corner instead of finishing there, and a single pane can no longer be ordered on its own.
- weather only what the joint does
- head and support what takes the load
- a matched pair how panes are made
Advantages of working with us
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In-house production
Windows, doors and glazed structures are made at our own factory in the UAE. Manufacturing takes 3–5 weeks from the survey, and the dates are written into the contract.
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Room measurement
After a free consultation, an engineer comes to measure within 48 hours and answers the technical questions on site — openings, profile, glass and hardware.
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Delivery of products
We deliver with our own transport across Dubai and all Emirates, and the installation date is agreed in advance so the crew arrives with the finished units.
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Installation on site
A "clean" installation is carried out – all construction debris is removed, and dust and dirt are cleaned. Work can be conducted with or without your presence. The date and time are discussed individually.
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Guarantee
The structures we make and the installation our crews carry out are covered by one warranty under one contract. The profile system also carries the manufacturer's warranty — up to 20 years, depending on the system.
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Service
Warranty cases are handled by the same crews that did the installation: send the address and photos, and in most cases we can say before the visit whether it is an adjustment, a gasket or a glass unit.
How a glass corner is set out and built
- Structure over the corner examined before anything else Our engineer attends within 48 hours
- Corner measured once the structure is standing Never taken from the plan alone
- Setting out begun at the corner and worked outwards Error sent to the ends, not into the mitre
- Panes cut and polished as a matched pair Processed together so the edges agree
- Made in our Dubai factory to the measured sizes Three to five weeks from the approved drawing
- Joint tooled and the pair recorded on the drawing So a replacement can be ordered years later
What a corner without a post depends on
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Spans the corner
Head member
Nothing beneath it, so it may not sag
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Continuous
Support below
Any settlement shows in the mitre
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Weather seal
Silicone line
It is not holding anything up
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Ground and polished
Mitred edge
A chipped mitre is a stressed mitre
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Straight through
Heat path
The outer face tends to mist here first
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The honest downside
When a glass corner is a poor trade
A glass corner lets the sun in from two directions at once. On a west or south corner that means heat and glare across both faces through the afternoon, and more work for the air conditioning than the room's size suggests. Blinds do not turn a mitre neatly either: they stop at each pane and leave the corner bare, just where the light is strongest.
It asks more of the building too. The member over the corner has to span without a post, which in an existing villa often means new structure rather than a new window, and a cracked pane usually means a new matched pair.
Where the corner faces the afternoon sun or the structure was never designed to span it, a corner window with a slim post gives nearly the same view and is far easier to seal, shade and maintain. The mitre earns its place where the view is the reason for the room.
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Frequently asked questions
The member over the corner and the support underneath it. Each pane puts its weight onto setting blocks at the bottom and hands wind to the head above, just as it would in an ordinary bay; the difference is that here the head has no post under it and must span the corner without visibly deflecting. If it sags it comes down on the top of the mitre and the joint takes a load nobody designed it for. The silicone between the two panes is a weather seal — it keeps rain and dust out and lets the panes move slightly against each other, and it is specified for a joint, not for a bracket.
Because it is a cut edge on a finished pane, and glass at that stage cannot be trimmed, ground back or persuaded. A corner also amplifies whatever the building has done: if the opening is a fraction out of square the joint opens along its length like a wedge, and there is no post and no cover to lose it in. So the corner is measured after the structure is standing, the panes are made to that measurement, and the run is set out from the corner outwards so that whatever error accumulates finishes at the ends, where a jamb trim can absorb it without anyone noticing.
In practice you replace the pair. The two mitres were cut and polished together so that they agreed with each other, and a single pane made later to the same nominal size will not necessarily meet the survivor cleanly — the difference shows at eye level, on the one joint everybody looks at. Taking a pane out also means releasing the restraint at the head, which is the member doing the most work in the whole detail, so the sequence is planned rather than improvised. We record the pair and its sizes on the drawing when the corner is built, precisely so the replacement is an order rather than an investigation.
No, and it is worth saying before anyone falls in love with the idea. There are two other honest corners. A slim post is far easier to build, to seal and to live with, and it puts a vertical line where the eye half expects one anyway. A butt joint, where one pane runs past the other on a straight silicone line, avoids the mitre altogether at the cost of showing the edge of one pane. The mitre has a physical drawback too: with no frame in it, the corner is the shortest path for heat through the elevation, so on a humid morning it is usually where condensation first shows on the outside face.
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