Just a quickie...

[vicky whitworth]

Putting in a new back door to match existing front door which has a small pane of wibbly-wobbly single glazed glass 12" x 9". Building not listed but building control involved as this is part of a new-build kitchen extension. So want a ledged, butt and bead stable door with a single pane of glass in the top half.

Would prefer to have single glazed glass in the door but have a feeling there is a maximum size this can be before building regs require it to be double-glazed? Anyone know what is the maximum size I can have for a single glazed pane in a door?

Thanks, Vicky

 

[shelli]

if you use extra thick glass (8mm) you can have up to 1.1m max and be single glazed - complies with part N of schedule 1
if you use glass 6mm thick max width is 250mm and area of pane is 0.5 square metres

As far as I could see when we did our stable door Building regulations only stipulate that door glass must be safety glass not that it must be DG - but best wait for 2nd opinion from another because building regs are easy to misread - even building control get it wrong sometimes!

Shelli X

 

[Penners]

Awww - I thought this thread was going to be about something much more interesting.

 

[Jon Maine]

Awww - I thought this thread was going to be about something much more interesting.

So did I where is the complaints department!!

 

[middi]

I am next !!!!!!.

 

[vicky whitworth]

Are you guys trying to tell me there's things more interesting that building regs on window glass? I must get out more!!!

 

[Penners]

Sorry, vicky - I'm afraid the departure into smutty irrelevance was my fault.

I can't help you about the glass regulations, I'm afraid, but I bet your local glass merchant could. In my experience, they're pretty well up on what is and isn't permissable re. glazed doors.