Thick tempered glass for safety easy to clean glass helps prevent streaking by sheeting the water to carry away dirt reversible door opening installs with sliding door on left or right.
Tempered glass above door.
Custom shower walls and passage 60 in.
Also known as toughened glass tempered glass is stronger and safer than regular glass.
Features frameless shower with barn door type sliding operation coordinates with passage 60 in.
According to the international building code which has been adopted by the state of texas any glass in a window that is within 2 feet of a door and within 53 of the finished floor surface.
All doors manufactured since 1974 have tempered glass.
If you are installing windows within 2 feet of a door and lower than 5 feet from the ground you need tempered glass in the windows even though these might be higher than 18 inches from the ground.
There are exceptions allowed for decorative glass in windows also along with the addition of a sturdy rail in front of the glass and outboard panes of insulating glass in a high location.
Glass in walls enclosing stairway landings or within 5 feet of the bottom and top of stairways where the bottom edge of the glass is less than 60 above a walking surface you can select tempered glass on any of the windows you order from discount door and window.
Select glass strength option and choose tempered glass.
Shower base clear 3 8 in.
Any windows in a door must have tempered glass no matter the height unless it is too small for a 3 inch ball to pass through the window.
The tempering process changes the properties of the glass so that if it should be broken it crumbles into dull cubes to minimize any injury.
Also glass on a perpendicular wall to a door and opposite the swing must be safety tempered as illustrated below.