Huge wrote:
On 2008-09-24, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Man at B&Q wrote:
On Sep 24, 9:15 am, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
mogga wrote:
Are there building regs regarding internal doors with glass?
Someone's asking about a door made up from 4 single glazed panels
measuring approx 1 - 1 1/2 foot tall by 2 - 2 1/2 foot wide.
Yup. MUST be toughened safety glass. In fact all glass used these days
in a house has to be unless the pane size is very small as in e.g.
leaded lights or small framed panels..the issue is people falling
through and being literally cut to ribbons.
I thought it depended on height above the floor for windows.

Sort of. I think the key is being able to fall through it.

Regs are online anyway. And frankly, regs or not, having been
absoulutely shocked at the fragility of horticutaral glass, and the
lethality of what it leaves behind, I would not consider it in a house
except in small leaded lights.

What he said. About 10 years ago, my Mother fell through a secondary double
glazing panel fitted to a wooden French door in our lounge - fortunately, she
grabbed the couch as she fell and went through it backwards and only ended up
needing about a dozen stitches in a place more embarrassing than significant.
But I was appalled at the fact that the panel wasn't toughened glass (we didn't
fit it) and that it broke into "spears" - had she gone through it forwards with
arms outstretched I think the chances are it would have killed her.

We threw away all the similar panels shortly thereafter.


Years ago whole glass doors had to be toughened but not doors with
separate upper and lower dg units. Whole council estates were being
fitted with non toughened so that when someone fell down the stairs they
went straight through the bottom panel of the front door. Nasty.

I used to have a house with only fanlights in the bedrooms. Kept a heavy
hammer in one and an axe in the other. Best to go for a corner I believe
so that air cushioning is not so pronounced.