Glass brick

Glass blocks or glass blocks are rectangular components used in the manufacture of transparent and non-bearing walls, both indoors and outdoors. If they are, however, arranged horizontally ( light manhole cover or skylight ) have to use so-called concrete glasses. Together with the concrete and steel materials can be produced in this way, a glass reinforced concrete, which is also suitable for receiving a load ( for example, vehicle loads).

Features

Glass blocks themselves are composed either of two fused or cemented shells made ​​of pressed glass and thus are hollow or be made ​​directly as a full glass blocks. They are in different formats and different colors ( clear or colored glass ) are commercially available. They are by their structure or surface finish usually visually as distorting, that although they are translucent, at the same time can be used as a screen though. With these wall openings are filled or bred translucent walls.

They may, like other masonry, bricked up with mortar, or ( usually at large batches ) are produced as finished elements. Here, the stability can be transferred to the joint reinforcement steels to increase. There are also other mortar -less installation systems, which are particularly suitable for DIY. The thickness (and therefore the wall thickness ) is usually 8 or 10 cm, for thermal insulation or fire-protection bricks, but also up to 16 cm.

Often you used them in the 1960s/70s at outside walls of staircases. Today, they are particularly rediscovered as a design element.

Four white-painted by the manufacturer faces obscure the view of the usually incompletely wetted by the tile grout surfaces and brighten the review.

Profiled glass blocks

Glass blocks in the honeycomb pattern

Colored glass blocks

Norms and Standards

  • DIN 18 175 - Glass Tile
  • DIN 4243 - Concrete Glass
  • DIN 1045 - Glass reinforced concrete (Section 20.3)
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