Reflective glass is a type of glass that has a metallic coating applied to it. Reflective glass also doesn’t always reflect light, but it does reflect heat. Unlike a mirror, reflective glass helps keep rooms cool by making the heat bounce off of the glass. Reflective glass can reflect light though. Reflective glass is a great way to insulate a
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Tinted glass is a highly useful form of glass that can reduce light intake and sometimes keeps rooms and cars cooler. Tinted glass can be different colors most commonly blue, yellow, green, and black. Tinted glass is used on sunglasses and goggles for snow sports like snowboarding and skiing. Tinted glass also gets rid of glare making it very useful
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Glaze, a glass coating material, can be very useful for more than just protecting your windows from damage. Gazed windows can help with insulating a house. Glazing the windows in your home can prevent heat from entering or leaving your home. By adding gases such as argon or krypton you can strengthen your glass and the glaze applied to it.
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It is important to clean your glass when necessary. It is a fairly simple process to clean your glass. All you need is a glass cleaning product like Windex. All that should be done is that you should spray the glass, not the cloth, with the cleaning product and wipe it down with a dry cloth. This should be done
Read moreGlass can have its edges carved into designs to make it decorative. This is called beveled glass. Other than the designs, there are two types of beveled glass, handmade and machine-made beveled glass. Handmade beveled glass of course would be more expensive due to it being handmade. With machine-made beveled glass there will most likely be less choices for bevels,
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Plate glass is a type of glass that is used commonly as windows, shelves, and tabletops. Plate glass is started like any other type of glass being melted down to its liquid form. It is then rolled out on conveyor belts and when it cools a bit, into a soft solid and then flattened by rollers that roll over the
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Glass can be replaced with many different substances. Often, when glass is replaced with a different substance, plastic is the generally picked. The two most popular glass substitutes are called Plexiglas and Lexan. Plexiglas is breakable but only under extreme force making it very useful for many applications. When Plexiglas does break though, it breaks similarly to tempered glass: into
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Mirrors are another type of glass that has its own unique properties. Mirrors are unique because of their highly reflective surface. Mirrors are made differently depending on the type of mirror that it is. Most commonly one will find what is called a one-way mirror. One-way mirrors have only one side that is reflective. One-way mirrors are made with a
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Glass is used in many different places. A common place to have glass is as shower doors. Glass shower doors are great for adding an elegant look to bathroom. For a cheap price in a comparison, one could get a framed shower door. Framed shower doors can work as both a sliding door and a hinged door. Sliding doors are
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It is always important to replace a window when it is broken. Broken windows cause all types of trouble, such as the fact that it needs to be replaced which costs money, it needs to be boarded up while there isn’t glass present, there is also of course the matter of cleaning up the mess, and more after all of
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