Currently in houses there are often screw stairs and reinforced glass. The main distinguishing feature of reinforced glass is the presence of a metal wire inside it, forming a mesh with rectangular or hexagonal cells, the size of the side of which can be 12.5-25 mm. To prevent corrosion, the net is covered with alloying materials. The net should be placed over the entire area of the glass and no closer 1.5 mm from its surface.
The use of the reinforcing mesh allows you to give the product increased fire resistance and safety. Despite the fact that the strength of the glass itself remains unchanged, and in some cases even a little lower, when destroyed, its fragments remain on the reinforcement, and not fly apart.
Reinforced glass can have a polished, corrugated, patterned or cast surface and be painted in different colors (the most common is blue, green, golden yellow and purple-pink shades).
It should be borne in mind that cutting such glass is difficult enough. This is better to carry out on automated machines, allowing quickly and with great accuracy to cut a glass canvas into products of the required size. In the case of independent cutting of glass, you must first apply the cut line, cut the glass along it, bend the cut part to the stop and eat the wire with bites. The main disadvantage of using this type of glass is the impossibility of its dense installation in the structure.
Reinforced glass is most used for glazing industrial buildings (including the manufacture of light and aeration lamps), porch doors, balconies, stairwells and other structures and rooms where fire safety and prevention of injuries is necessary in case of destruction of the glass structure.