{"id":23049,"date":"2017-02-08T15:08:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T09:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mccoymart.com\/post\/?p=23049"},"modified":"2024-05-25T18:23:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T12:53:35","slug":"laminated-glass-and-tempered-glass-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mccoymart.com\/post\/laminated-glass-and-tempered-glass-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Laminated Glass Vs Tempered Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"

The term safety glass inspires confidence and is essential for all kinds of projects, from a skylight and patio furniture to the all important shower door. Safety glass acts more like a safeguard, designed to withstand the elements and does a pretty good job of significantly cutting down the number and severity of broken window and door glass laceration injuries and deaths. It basically encompasses that it has to be hit much harder in order to break. When you’re on the lookout for safety glass, you\u2019re basically left with two prime options to choose from; laminated glass and tempered glass. Laminated glass and tempered glass are both strong, but they work in different ways.<\/p>\n

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Laminated glass consists of two pieces of glass, usually float glass, joined together with a plastic or PVB plastic layer in between (safety glass), which is designed to hold it in place when it breaks. This plastic comes in different sizes and can either be tinted or clear.\u00a0 When laminated safety glass breaks, it will flex before shattering thus reducing the risk of injury.\u00a0 One of the biggest advantages of laminated glass is that if and when it does break, the broken glass sticks to the enclosed plastic rather than falling to the floor and creating a potential mess and health hazard.<\/p>\n

Additionally, it also had the added advantage of blocking nearly 99% of the Sun\u2019s ultraviolet rays and therefore it\u2019s almost a near certainty in skylight fixtures as it effectively screens out the radiation and prevents the glass from fading as well. Laminated glass also provides high sound insulation and can thus help with soundproofing. Although it\u2019s termed as laminated glass, it\u2019s essentially a process and you can laminate pretty much any glass including a tempered glass. This makes laminated glass a standard for vehicle windshields.<\/p>\n

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