Tempered glass is often used as a safety glass when using standard glass could be a potential hazard. Tempered glass is stronger than standard glass and it will shatter into small pieces when broken. This is important because reduces the potential danger when it gets broken. The glass is made by a process of extreme heating and rapid cooling, tempered glass has a much higher breaking point than normal glass.
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Tempered glass is often called a "safety glass". Because if it does break, it shatters into small pieces that are not as dangerous and they do not have as sharp of edges as normal glass. Tempered glass is considered to be much safer than normal glass, you may often hear it referred to as safety glass or toughened glass. Tempered glass has a wide variety of uses that you&#;ll find in many everyday applications. Some examples of this would be your shower doors in your bathroom, the side glass on your car, and most any entry door to a home or business.
Tempered glass is used in some fireplaces because of its ability to stand up to heat up to (470°F). The manufacturing process that strengthens this glass also makes it more heat-resistant. This makes tempered glass a great solution for a situation where there is a danger of the glass breaking due to impact or mild heat. Tempered glass is often used for fireplaces Bi-fold doors (Never on woodstoves), masonry, and prefabricated zero clearance fireplaces. Because these types of fireplaces are designed to have a pretty fire and not produce heat. If tempered glass is heated to temperatures over 400-500F degrees, it will break the glass. Tempered glass is not recommended in an airtight wood-burning application.
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Cheap, readily available supplies of old glass are easy to find. RELIABLE, cheap, readily available supplies are a bit harder.
I got interested in tempered glass when my parents bought a crazy&#;er, eccentric lady&#;s house and needed to remove a bunch of tempered glass shelves and doors. I happily inherited many lawn-sized garbage bags of tempered glass shards, and spent weeks experimenting with fusing them.
When my supply finally ran out, it seemed silly to just buy new float glass, so that&#;s when I got into the glass salvage business. These are some of the places I check.
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Glassland (AKA Portland) has several places that buy up old store or restaurant fixtures. Most will either give you cracked glass shelves and doors, or sell them for almost nothing. I&#;ve found glass up to four inches thick in those places, and I&#;ve rarely paid more than $2 or $3 for 6-12mm thick shelves up to 12×48 inches.
Portland Store Fixtures, for example, gets in stacks and stacks of chipped 10&#;x16&#; glass storage cube panels. I can usually pick up 20 or 30 pieces for 50 cents to $1.50 each, depending on how much they need to get rid of.
Every so often my timing is perfect, and they&#;ve simply let me carry away as many trashed glass shelves and doors as my car will hold. (yum)
You&#;d think the recycling piles of fabrication and auto glass stores would be obvious first stops, but I haven&#;t had much success. Generally these guys have insurance coverage to worry about, so they&#;re leery about letting anyone plow through their broken glass piles. And in Glassland they&#;ve gotten a bit tired of ALL the glass artists looking for free practice glass.
Cherish the ones who say yes anyway, because they&#;re a great source of specialty glasses that are hard to come by but make beautiful music in your kiln. They can also warn you when a really gorgeous tinted piece is actually coated with something.
Wandering around restaurants and old buildings in a gentrification area, hotel, or apartment complex can sometimes pay off. I once got a free stack of really nice plate glass shelves, all 12 x 36 x 6mm, in a gorgeous aqua color I&#;ve never been able to replicate. Early in my recycled glass experiments I made a series of thick glass bowls that I sold to a collector; if I&#;d known how rare that aqua color is, I would have kept them.
Habitat for Humanity and a few other non-profits run &#;rebuild centers,&#; i.e., used building materials stores. People donate their old doors, sinks, electrical fixtures, and whatnot; some may go into the organization&#;s home building/repair work but most is resold to the public and the proceeds go to those programs. These places usually have piles of scratched up or broken glass, and it can be free for the taking or very low-cost.
The kinds of glass you&#;ll find depend on what people are bringing in, and it&#;s much less reliable than the tempered shelves and doors you&#;ll usually find at store fixture places. It&#;s still worth checking out, though.
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