Glass doors

Glass doors give the room its own identity, its uniqueness. The interior gets the original contemporary sound and is becoming more stylish. Elegance, originality, and the inimitable ability to glass doors to fit in any modern interior increasingly attracted the attention of discerning buyers. In Europe, glass interior doors - not a new trend of fashion, and ordinariness. In Russia, this is still just a new trend, reinforced by the fact that our fellow citizens no longer associated with the glass door entrance to the subway entrance or research institutes. Now the glass door is seen as organic and functional detail of the interior. Story all-glass door has been around for decades, taking the top end of constructivism in 20-ies - in those days leading architects around the world covered the search for new and unexpected applications for traditional materials, often ignoring the fact that the level of development industrial technology has not kept pace "flight of thought" and limited the "space fantasy". However, many of the ideas put forward by then have been very successful - year after year, science and industry, accumulating experience, hastening the possibility of full implementation of bold concepts. One of them - make greater use of glass in interior design. Received at the end of XX century the most widespread style of "Hi-Tech" and gave the idea new impetus to the use of glass doors and partitions, not only in commercial buildings and public facilities, but also in the interiors of living quarters. Frameless glass doors have been widely applied in hardware saunas, bathrooms and showers. Safety glass significant step forward led to the new technology of thermal hardening or tempering allowed to increase the mechanical strength and Traumatic safety of the sheet of glass. After quenching, the glass changes the crystal lattice, making it stronger than the usual 4-5 times. If tempered glass is still broken, then it will crumble into many small (about 1 cm in diameter) with mild-edged fragments, reducing the risk of injury to a minimum. That is why most all-glass doors and self-supporting frameless partitions produced in the world today, run it out of tempered glass. There are still technology triplex. Triplex - it's actually a few glasses, which are glued between plastic film. Even if the triplex is broken, the film does not allow the debris scattered on the sides and caused injury to person. In practice, broken glass door is difficult, the only thing they are "afraid" - strikes a sharp object in the butt. The thickness of the blade, usually about 8-10 mm, though there are more thick glass -12 and 14 mm. Fittings for glass doors of unsuspecting buyers sometimes surprising, and seems unnecessarily high cost of hardware for all-glass doors, in comparison with conventional products for doors - wooden, metal or plastic. Indeed, special fittings, especially from the leading companies, is not cheap, but the reason for that - the need for a rigorous approach to designing and manufacturing all the parts and components. Glass - a unique and specific material, in conjunction with any detail as it is tested for quality and aesthetic usefulness. In addition to its primary goal - to provide ease and convenience of opening, all the elements of hardware must be harmoniously complement and highlight the natural beauty of glass, shiny polished edges, which is possible only with immaculate attention to the quality of any, even the smallest detail. Fittings for glass doors traditionally holds a special place of honor among the other "hardware products". With their small size, details of fittings should be with a margin of withstanding very heavy. The design of the hardware designers are widely used various kinds of pure metal texture - matte or polished to a mirror finish stainless steel and aluminum. In cases where this is justified by the colors surrounding the interior, apply anodized (gold-plated), painted in the color or details of the brass fittings. Major manufacturers offer different elements (handles, hinges, brackets, fasteners and components), combined single style. Use them in different combinations makes it possible to equip a single key, not only door, as part of a glass wall, but the whole self-supporting wall of glass. Such designs and sets of furniture is convenient to apply in cases where the dimensions of the opening is so large that even a very broad and high leaf door will not close it completely, and "sew up" the remaining space of opaque material "vgluhuyu" makes no sense. All-glass doors can be fitted and is gaining automatic systems to open, electronic code locks and Electric with remote control - all the leading manufacturers of such devices must offer a special model just for the glass doors. High-quality glass fabric, with all the seeming simplicity and conciseness - the result of meticulous work of many specialists in full can be made only if the enterprise has a set of special equipment and technology. Only through them can cut and process the sheet of glass with a tolerance of a few tenths of a millimeter, a flawless surface of the trapezoidal polished edges, drilled holes and perform complex shaped cutouts for the installation of hardware. Very high demands on dimensional accuracy imposed an ulterior motive - because when you install the door glass is not possible fit in place, as it is permissible for other materials - tempered glass can not be subjected to repeated or additional machining. Ways to open in the concept of "glass door" includes several types of frameless construction. By way of opening them can be divided into groups: Pendulum - glass doors opening both inside and out. Typically, such a door closer is used outdoor, who returns after opening the door to the closed position. The door itself is attached to the floor and the ceiling. Swing - the doors are opened only on one side and put in a door frame. Door with side loops attached to a wall or door frame. The glass doors of this type are usually internal and put in apartments, offices (including office partitions from different materials). Sliding - when you open the drive off to the side. Carriage is attached to the door leaf, move to the upper rail (which is fixed to the ceiling or wall). This design is particularly suitable in situations where the normal door when you open takes up too much space and partition off the passage. Sliding doors are placed indoors. From the curved glass - thanks to a relatively young technology tempering curved glass paintings became possible to produce a swing and sliding doors with curved door leaf. These doors - a sign of individuality and originality. Major manufacturers offer different elements (handles, hinges, brackets, fasteners and components), combined single style. Use them in different combinations makes it possible to equip a single key, not only door, as part of a glass wall, but the whole self-supporting wall of glass. Such designs and sets of furniture is convenient to apply in cases where the dimensions of the opening is so large that even a very broad and high leaf door will not close it completely, and "sew up" the remaining space of opaque material "vgluhuyu" makes no sense. All-glass doors can be fitted and is gaining automatic systems to open, electronic code locks and Electric with remote control - all the leading manufacturers of such devices must offer a special model just for the glass doors. High-quality glass fabric, with all the seeming simplicity and conciseness - the result of meticulous work of many specialists in full can be made only if the enterprise has a set of special equipment and technology. Only through them can cut and process the sheet of glass with a tolerance of a few tenths of a millimeter, a flawless surface of the trapezoidal polished edges, drilled holes and perform complex shaped cutouts for the installation of hardware. Very high demands on dimensional accuracy imposed an ulterior motive - because when you install the door glass is not possible fit in place, as it is permissible for other materials - tempered glass can not be subjected to repeated or additional machining. Ways to open in the concept of "glass door" includes several types of frameless construction. By way of opening them can be divided into groups: Pendulum - glass doors opening both inside and out. Typically, such a door closer is used outdoor, who returns after opening the door to the closed position. The door itself is attached to the floor and the ceiling. Swing - the doors are opened only on one side and put in a door frame. Door with side loops attached to a wall or door frame. The glass doors of this type are usually internal and put in apartments, offices (including office partitions from different materials). Sliding - when you open the drive off to the side. Carriage is attached to the door leaf, move to the upper rail (which is fixed to the ceiling or wall). This design is particularly suitable in situations where the normal door when you open takes up too much space and partition off the passage. Sliding doors are placed indoors. From the curved glass - thanks to a relatively young technology tempering curved glass paintings became possible to produce a swing and sliding doors with curved door leaf. These doors - a sign of individuality and originality. Prices and manufacturers of leading foreign companies, specializing in producing all-glass doors offer a great selection of ready-made models in standard sizes, decorated with drawings of different styles - in this variety, you can easily select options most appropriate to the overall design, color and purpose of the room. Glass doors, manufactured by European companies, of course, are of high quality and variety of models. But there are moments that should be considered in the Russian market. First, the European doors, say Italian or German, are certified by Western standards, that is, to put a door in the Russian opening, you need to work hard. Secondly, the delivery of German or Italian doors in Russia ranges from 2 to 4 months, will have to wait. Of course, doors, custom to the individual author's design, has a higher cost, but in some cases it is absolutely justified and even necessary, if it is important to emphasize the stylish room, his distinctive, high status and a unique interior. Ultimately, any all-glass door or partition is always highly exclusive product - on the final price affects the selected glass, decoration and technology, the nuances of a complete set of accessories and complexity of installation. The cost of designing, manufacturing and installation can vary in a very large range - from several hundred dollars for a "standard" version with the simple set of accessories, up to 3000-15000 and even more for the "exclusive" - ??a work of art - the large size and complexity, with custom-made, one-of-its-kind items. Premises, which are used in the design of doors and walls of glass, always distinguished by the special atmosphere of lightness, spaciousness, and, simultaneously, of respectability. Pleasing to the eye accented geometric purity of the lines, the play of light on the polished faces, each brought to perfection "trifle" and part of high-quality fittings. Wherever there is a modern all-glass door - it will always be that same door, which wants to enter. Have you noticed, dear readers, that we this time are not touched upon the decoration of the door glass cloth? This is because the topic deserves a separate discussion, and he we still be held.