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Glass balustrades
A glass balustrade is a barrier first and a view second, and every decision follows from that order. The glass is laminated, so a pane that cracks stays together on its interlayer and keeps standing instead of leaving an open edge at a balcony. It is held either in a base channel set into the slab and wedged plumb, or on point clamps bolted through the pane, and in both cases the fixing into the structure — usually through a waterproofing layer on a terrace or a pool deck — is the detail that decides whether the job survives its fifth summer.
- laminated glass build-up
- channel or clamps how it is held
- sealed through the waterproofing
Profile Options
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Profile finish and coating options
Powder coating in any shade of the RAL palette; the colour is confirmed against a physical sample at the survey.
Anodising builds an oxide layer on the profile itself, so the colour belongs to the metal rather than to a film on top of it and cannot peel.
Wood-grain and stone-effect finishes are transferred onto the powder coating. The profile keeps the strength of aluminium and never needs repainting.
Available colours (200+ RAL shades)
- White
- Anthracite
- Brown
- Black
- Grey-anthracite
- Grey
Anodised finishes
- Natural silver
- Champagne
- Light bronze
- Medium bronze
- Dark bronze
- Black anodised
Wood-grain and special effects
- Golden oak
- Walnut
- Dark oak
- Concrete
- Basalt
- Wenge
How a barrier line is built
- Edge surveyed and the barrier line set Engineer at the edge within 48 hours
- Loading case agreed with the structure People lean on it; wind pushes it
- Build-up chosen for where the pane stands A pool edge is not a stair flight
- Fixing drawn through the waterproofing Sealed detail, signed off in advance
- Panes set, plumbed and wedged to one line Sighted down the whole run
- Caps, seals and any rail fitted, then washed Checked pane by pane at handover
What holds a glass barrier up
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Laminated
Glass
Interlayer holds a cracked pane
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Base channel
Fixing
Wedged plumb, then capped
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Or point clamps
Alternative
Fewer fixings, more setting per pane
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Sealed
Penetration
Through the waterproofing, not just drilled
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Marine grade
Hardware
Salt air and pool chemistry
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Partitions
Office partitions made of aluminium profiles are a simple, quick, and cost-effective way to organise efficient zoning within a large space, while maintaining interior unity.
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Aluminium office partitions with glass
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Full-glass office partitions
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Transformable partitions for the office
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Accordion partitions for the office
Pricing
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What are we making
Shape and opening
Size
Width and height: 300–6000 mm. Not sure? Clear the fields — we’ll measure at the free survey.
Width under 300 mm — check that it is in millimetres.
Width over 6000 mm — we’ll confirm it at the survey.
Height under 300 mm — check that it is in millimetres.
Height over 6000 mm — we’ll confirm it at the survey.
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The honest downside
What a glass balustrade asks of you
Glass shows everything that lands on it. On a seafront terrace or beside a pool, salt, splashes and hard water mark the panes within days, and they have to be rinsed regularly or the deposits bake in. Dust after a shamal sits along the base channel and on both faces.
It also hides nothing. A clear balustrade shows the terrace, the furniture and whoever is sitting there to the street and the neighbours below, and a cracked pane has to be made again to size rather than cut from stock.
Where upkeep, privacy or a tight budget matter more than an open view, an aluminium railing with bar or perforated infill is quieter to own. Glass is the better answer where the view is the reason for the terrace and someone is ready to keep it clean.
Consider instead
Aluminium railings
Frequently asked questions
Because of what happens the day it breaks. A toughened pane on its own turns into granules and falls away, and at a balcony edge that leaves exactly the gap the barrier existed to prevent. Laminated glass has an interlayer bonded between the plies: the pane can crack right through and still hold its shape in the channel until it is replaced. On anything protecting a drop, that is not an upgrade, it is the specification.
It depends on the design and on what the consultant and the authority require for that building, so it is confirmed rather than assumed. Technically a top rail does two useful things: it ties the panes into one line so they share a push, and it protects the exposed edge from knocks. Frameless with no rail is a cleaner look and puts every bit of the load into the base fixing, which is precisely why that base fixing gets the attention it does.
It will mark, and so will everything else on a seafront terrace. Salt spray and hard water leave deposits that etch in if they bake on, so the honest advice is rinsing rather than an expensive coating. The part that matters more is the metal: clamps, channels and fixings near the sea or a pool are specified for that exposure, because a bracket rusting inside a channel is a problem you cannot see coming.
It stays where it is, which is the whole reason for laminating it, and the run remains a barrier while a replacement is made. The pane is ordered from the processing drawing we hold for the job — a heat-treated pane will not take a cut or a new hole afterwards, so it has to be made to size from the start. The channel and the wedges are reused; only the glass changes.
Related pages
Nearby pages and the rest of the catalogue.
- All-glass corners
- Aluminium railings
- Balcony glazing
- Balcony glazing upgrade
- Cassette facades
- Conservatories
- Curtain wall
- Floor-to-ceiling glazing
- Frameless balcony glazing
- Frameless glazing
- Garden rooms
- Glass canopies
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