Tempered Glass For Tough Glass Pool Fencing

A swimming pool in your home is an excellent feature. It is a place where you can wind down and have a refreshing swim after a hot, tiring day. It is a place where you can hold barbecue parties with your buddies. It is a place where you can enjoy the weekend with your family.

But as a homeowner, you must realize that having a swimming pool in your yard is a double-edged sword. While it does increase the value of your property and provides enjoyment, it might also be an accident prone area. People can slip on small spots of water. Children fall into the pool and drown if they are cannot swim.

To prevent these accidents, several nations have passed and implemented regulations that require homeowners with pools in their property to fence their pools. Wood and iron fencing systems once dominated, but today, glass pool fencing has become quite widely used. Not only are they easy to maintain and beautiful to look at, they are also quite resistant and strong.

You might ask why this modern fencing system is tough while it is made of seemingly fragile glass. Well, the glass that is used is called toughened or tempered glass, which is processed by controlled chemical or thermal treatments to increase its durability. Physically, it can withstand high temperatures and impacts that would otherwise damage normal glass. Toughened glass has a minimum surface compressive stress level of 69 MPa although for it to be considered “safety” glass, this level must be more than 100 MPa.

What happens if the glass is subjected to a blow that can actually break it? Well, due to the tempering, the glass breaks into small pieces. These granular pieces are less likely to cause further injury. Normal glass, on the other hand, splinters into extremely sharp shards which can result to even more injury.

Tempered glass used in glass pool fencing is tough but is vulnerable to scratching. Therefore, many manufacturers may apply various laminates or coatings to the glass to lessen the likelihood of scratching the surface.

If you need tough glass pool fencing and balustrading Perth, get in touch with Glass Fencing Warehouse.