Are Tempered Glasses Of Iron Doors Safe?

Are tempered glasses of iron doors safe？

Are tempered glasses of iron doors safe? Yes, it’s SAFE & NECESSARY! Because the tempered glass is broken into uniform particles. They are small pieces and relatively harmless, with no sharp edge like ordinary broken glass to cause injury. There is a rule in the International building code about tempered glass: The glass must be tempered if a window is less than 18 inches from the floor and has 9 square feet of glass.

For more knowledge of tempered glass, please keep reading my article. 

What is tempered glass?

 Tempered glass, also called toughened glass, is produced by cutting the ordinary glass into pieces of the required dimension, heating it to a soft point, then making it cool fast and uniformly. After the tempered process, the performance of the glass is significantly improved, its tensile strength is 3 times higher than that of ordinary glass, and its impact resistance is 5 times higher than regular glass.

Why is tempered glass less likely to cause injury than ordinary glass when broken?

 For some reason, when the glass is broken, the ordinary glass is broken into sharp, unregular, long, and jagged shards, which cause injury easily. In contrast, the tempered glass is broken into small uniform particles, less likely to cause injury.

The safety codes of tempered glass

There is a regulation in the International Building Code:” it must be tempered glass if a window is less than 18 inches from the floor and has 9 square feet of glass. It is necessary to install tempered glass in windows and doors.” The use of tempered glass has become the consensus of modern home decorating.

Advantages and disadvantages of tempered glass

The advantage of tempered glass is that it is safe; it can be used widely. Its advantage is that the tempered glass can not be re-work once tempering; all further processing like cutting into pieces, polishing the edge, and drilling holes should be finished before tempered.

How to know it is tempered glass?

Break one piece of the glass

Take one piece of glass and break it; you can distinguish if it is tempered glass as soon as it is broken, this way is the easiest, but sometimes you do not hope to break any piece of glass, so come to the following method.

Touch the edge of the glass

Touch the edge of the glass; if it is smooth, then it is probably tempered glass. It is heated to have a smooth edge during the tempered processing than the ordinary glass.

Use polarized sunglasses

Wear Polarized sunglasses to see through the glass against the sun; if you can find some spots or lines on the pane, it is tempered glass; the machine rollers caused these spots and lines during the tempered process.

How to make the glass of iron doors safer?

The laminated tempered glass is the correct answer; it will make the tempered glass panel of your iron doors much safer. When a broken case happens, it is broken into small uniform particles like most tempered glass. And the difference is all these small uniform particles are still attached as one whole piece of a glass panel without scattering to the ground. Hence, people always use laminated tempered glass to boost the safe index for the glass panel of the iron doors.

Conclusion

Tempered glass for iron doors is safe and necessary, while laminated tempered glass will be a much safer choice for iron doors. Do you want to get safer iron front doors, contact us now!