Safety

The minimum requirements for the use of safety glass in homes are specified by two Australian Standards AS1288 and AS2208.

These standards define the combination of size and location for windows and doors that are required to be glazed with Grade A Safety glass.

Grade A Safety glass is available in two forms. Both forms of safety glass are available in clear or toned versions, allowing you to achieve more than just complying with the building standards.

Produced by passing cut-to-size float glass through a heat furnace, this process introduces stress into the glass and produces a glass 4-5 times stronger than ordinary float glass.

Toughened glass can still be broken, however if this does happen it shatters into small fragments, minimising the risk of injury caused by glass splinters.

Usually made from two pieces of 3mm float glass with a 0.38mm poly vinyl butyral (PVB) interlayer.

The interlayer prevents the glass from disintegrating when broken.

The interlayer does not impact the transparency of the glass.