Glass blocks (for privacy or decorative walls and window openings) are
usually 3" and 4" wide.

According to the following statement (which is apparently 6 years old),
it would seem that 2" blocks should be some-what common today:

----------------------
Building Products, March-April, 2004 by Stephanie Herzfeld

Glass block manufacturers are keeping pace with acrylic, introducing
lighter, 2-inch-thick block windows,

"It's still heavier than acrylic, but it's a very manageable weight,"
says Kurt Hodson, general manager of the glass block maker Pacific
Accent. Two-inch-thick glass block weighs one-third less than
traditional 3-inch-thick glass block. Acrylic block weighs 75 percent
less than all glass blocks, manufacturers say.

Hodson notes that 2-inch thick block is overtaking traditional 3- and
4-inch-thick block and more companies are offering it, (...)

http://tinyurl.com/28nj4x5
----------------------

What I can find on the net are pre-fab window products using 2" blocks,
one of which is known as "LightWise" - which confusingly seems to be
made by either Pittsburgh Corning or Chicago Glass:

http://www.chicagoglassblocks.com/news_lwise.php
http://www.glassblockdesigns.com/GB-277.pdf

And another 2" prefab window system with the brand name "Hy Lite":

http://www.acrylicblocks4less.com/Gl...ckwindows.html

What I can't find is any evidence that anyone is making / selling 2"
glass blocks (any size, 6" x 6", 8" x 8", etc) individually (or in the
typical box-quantity of 4, 8, etc).

So - are 2" glass blocks available to the home-owner / renovator?

Home Guy wrote:

What I can't find is any evidence that anyone is making / selling 2"
glass blocks (any size, 6" x 6", 8" x 8", etc) individually (or in the
typical box-quantity of 4, 8, etc).

So - are 2" glass blocks available to the home-owner / renovator?

Why not contact them directly?



PH: 888.522.4527
Fax: 888.337.5099

Jon

On 11/18/2010 7:41 AM Jon Danniken spake thus:

Home Guy wrote:

What I can't find is any evidence that anyone is making / selling
2" glass blocks (any size, 6" x 6", 8" x 8", etc) individually (or
in the typical box-quantity of 4, 8, etc).

So - are 2" glass blocks available to the home-owner / renovator?

Why not contact them directly?



PH: 888.522.4527
Fax: 888.337.5099

Hey, whaddya know--there's even a website:

http://pacificaccent.com


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In article ,
David Nebenzahl wrote:

On 11/18/2010 7:41 AM Jon Danniken spake thus:

Home Guy wrote:

What I can't find is any evidence that anyone is making / selling
2" glass blocks (any size, 6" x 6", 8" x 8", etc) individually (or
in the typical box-quantity of 4, 8, etc).

So - are 2" glass blocks available to the home-owner / renovator?

Why not contact them directly?



PH: 888.522.4527
Fax: 888.337.5099

Hey, whaddya know--there's even a website:

http://pacificaccent.com

You must mean the website that Jon already alluded to. The one that
doesn't have what the OP seeks: individual glass blocks for the DIY guy.

Home Guy wrote:
Glass blocks (for privacy or decorative walls and window openings) are
usually 3" and 4" wide.
....

What I can't find is any evidence that anyone is making / selling 2"
glass blocks (any size, 6" x 6", 8" x 8", etc) individually (or in the
typical box-quantity of 4, 8, etc).

So - are 2" glass blocks available to the home-owner / renovator?

It doesn't appear so, no.

I'd think owing to the thickness being only 2" they wouldn't be nearly
so stable as the 3- or 4-inch blocks that stack so there's probably not
much market for them as a free-standing product outside the bound window
use. (Which I hadn't seen before, but repeating similar search as to
what you've already done, that would be my take on the results...)

--

Smitty Two wrote:
In article ,
David Nebenzahl wrote:

On 11/18/2010 7:41 AM Jon Danniken spake thus:

Home Guy wrote:

What I can't find is any evidence that anyone is making / selling
2" glass blocks (any size, 6" x 6", 8" x 8", etc) individually (or
in the typical box-quantity of 4, 8, etc).

So - are 2" glass blocks available to the home-owner / renovator?

Why not contact them directly?



PH: 888.522.4527
Fax: 888.337.5099

Hey, whaddya know--there's even a website:

http://pacificaccent.com

You must mean the website that Jon already alluded to. The one that
doesn't have what the OP seeks: individual glass blocks for the DIY
guy.

We don't know that they don't have what he wants, as he did not state such
in his post. Hence why I suggest the OP contact the manufacturer directly.
They will have the information he seeks, and depending upon who he talks to,
the ability to provide him with the product he is looking for.

Contact them. Find out. See what they can do.

Jon

On Nov 18, 1:42*pm, "Jon Danniken"
wrote:
Smitty Two wrote:
In article ,
David Nebenzahl wrote:

On 11/18/2010 7:41 AM Jon Danniken spake thus:

Home Guy wrote:

What I can't find is any evidence that anyone is making / selling
2" glass blocks (any size, 6" x 6", 8" x 8", etc) individually (or
in the typical box-quantity of 4, 8, etc).

So - are 2" glass blocks available to the home-owner / renovator?

Why not contact them directly?



PH: 888.522.4527
Fax: 888.337.5099

Hey, whaddya know--there's even a website:

http://pacificaccent.com

You must mean the website that Jon already alluded to. The one that
doesn't have what the OP seeks: individual glass blocks for the DIY
guy.

We don't know that they don't have what he wants, as he did not state such
in his post. *Hence why I suggest the OP contact the manufacturer directly.
They will have the information he seeks, and depending upon who he talks to,
the ability to provide him with the product he is looking for.

Contact them. *Find out. *See what they can do.

Jon- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

The best thing to do is for the OP to contact the manufacturer and
find out who distributes the 2" blocks in his area. This isn't Rocket
Science here.

In article ,
"Jon Danniken" wrote:

Smitty Two wrote:
In article ,
David Nebenzahl wrote:

On 11/18/2010 7:41 AM Jon Danniken spake thus:

Home Guy wrote:

What I can't find is any evidence that anyone is making / selling
2" glass blocks (any size, 6" x 6", 8" x 8", etc) individually (or
in the typical box-quantity of 4, 8, etc).

So - are 2" glass blocks available to the home-owner / renovator?

Why not contact them directly?



PH: 888.522.4527
Fax: 888.337.5099

Hey, whaddya know--there's even a website:

http://pacificaccent.com

You must mean the website that Jon already alluded to. The one that
doesn't have what the OP seeks: individual glass blocks for the DIY
guy.

We don't know that they don't have what he wants, as he did not state such
in his post. Hence why I suggest the OP contact the manufacturer directly.
They will have the information he seeks, and depending upon who he talks to,
the ability to provide him with the product he is looking for.

Contact them. Find out. See what they can do.

Jon

I agree, it'd be good to contact them. I just didn't see that David
added anything to what you'd already provided.

Somewhat interesting story behind these 2" glass blocks.

Seems that Pittsburgh Corning was the maker of 2" glass blocks in north
america, and as I mentioned in my original post they were the spark
behind a product line of pre-fab windows that were offered by window
companies back around 2004 / 2005. If anyone else has been making 2"
glass blocks in NA either before or after 2004, I can find no info about
it.

Individual window companies offered custom-built window units using the
Corning blocks and various interconnecting frames and lattice
accessories made by Corning (along with lots of silicone used as
grouting). These were offered under such brand names as "LightWise" and
"Hy Lite" by regional window companies serving local markets.

As I was unable to locate any local wholesaler/retailer selling 2"
blocks, I contacted some of the window makers I found on the net that
seemed to be making these 2" block window units - one of them being
Pacific Accent (which was somewhat difficult to contact since the
toll-free number they list doesn't work from Canada, and I wasn't able
to find any working toll-number for them on the net).

The story is this:

Pittsburgh Corning sold 2" glass blocks to window companies under
contractual contracts that the window companies were only to sell them
to end customers as part of finished window units, and not as individual
(unassembled) blocks. The reason being that Corning did not want to
take on the legal liability as a maker/supplier of these blocks if they
were used by contractors, masons (etc) to make conventional glass wall
or partial wall structures. If contractors could not realistically or
"legally" get their hands on the glass blocks (separately, in boxes,
etc) then Corning would have faced little or no liability risk from the
event that a wall or structure made from these 2" blocks would fall or
topple and injure someone.

Apparently Corning internal risk management came to the conclusion that
while 3" and 4" wide glass blocks can be built into free-standing or
minimally-supported walls or other structures, the 2" glass blocks
can't. Hence their limited and controlled availability ONLY to window
makers for use in pre-fab framed window units.

And even that wasn't safe or lucrative enough for Corning. I called
Pittsburg Corning and was told they no longer make the 2" glass blocks
(as of when - I don't know. Possibly several years).

But there is apparently enough of a demand that some window makers are
sourcing them from Europe, via Glashaus Inc (Crystal Lake, Il) which is
the North American distributor for Weck Glass Blocks.

Weck was originally a German glass block company, but was bought a few
years ago by Seves - which (I believe) is an Italian company and which
I'm told has been buying many or most of the major European glass block
manufacturing companies.

The web-sites http://www.glashaus.com/ and http://weck.com/ are
identical, and from their products you can see that they do offer 3 of
their 8" x 8" blocks in the 2" wide format (technically, this is under
their Metric product line, where the blocks are 190 x 190 x 50 mm in
size).

It still might be the case that the availability of these 2" glass
blocks might be limited to window companies - or at the very least kept
out of the normal building-products retail chain (hence you won't see
them at Lowes, Home Depot, etc).

Glashaus lists their US and Canadian retail distributors, and so I will
be following up with the closest retailer to look into buying what I
need.

I hope this information is useful for the readers of alt.home.repair and
misc.consumers.house.

On 11/18/2010 12:45 PM Smitty Two spake thus:

In article ,
"Jon Danniken" wrote:

Contact them. Find out. See what they can do.

I agree, it'd be good to contact them. I just didn't see that David
added anything to what you'd already provided.

He posted email addresses; I gave a link to their web site, which he didn't.


--
The fashion in killing has an insouciant, flirty style this spring,
with the flaunting of well-defined muscle, wrapped in flags.

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On Nov 18, 4:33*pm, Home Guy wrote:
Somewhat interesting story behind these 2" glass blocks.

Seems that Pittsburgh Corning was the maker of 2" glass blocks in north
america, and as I mentioned in my original post they were the spark
behind a product line of pre-fab windows that were offered by window
companies back around 2004 / 2005. *If anyone else has been making 2"
glass blocks in NA either before or after 2004, I can find no info about
it.

Individual window companies offered custom-built window units using the
Corning blocks and various interconnecting frames and lattice
accessories made by Corning (along with lots of silicone used as
grouting). *These were offered under such brand names as "LightWise" and
"Hy Lite" by regional window companies serving local markets.

As I was unable to locate any local wholesaler/retailer selling 2"
blocks, I contacted some of the window makers I found on the net that
seemed to be making these 2" block window units - one of them being
Pacific Accent (which was somewhat difficult to contact since the
toll-free number they list doesn't work from Canada, and I wasn't able
to find any working toll-number for them on the net).

The story is this:

Pittsburgh Corning sold 2" glass blocks to window companies under
contractual contracts that the window companies were only to sell them
to end customers as part of finished window units, and not as individual
(unassembled) blocks. *The reason being that Corning did not want to
take on the legal liability as a maker/supplier of these blocks if they
were used by contractors, masons (etc) to make conventional glass wall
or partial wall structures. *If contractors could not realistically or
"legally" get their hands on the glass blocks (separately, in boxes,
etc) then Corning would have faced little or no liability risk from the
event that a wall or structure made from these 2" blocks would fall or
topple and injure someone.

Apparently Corning internal risk management came to the conclusion that
while 3" and 4" wide glass blocks can be built into free-standing or
minimally-supported walls or other structures, the 2" glass blocks
can't. *Hence their limited and controlled availability ONLY to window
makers for use in pre-fab framed window units.

And even that wasn't safe or lucrative enough for Corning. *I called
Pittsburg Corning and was told they no longer make the 2" glass blocks
(as of when - I don't know. *Possibly several years).

But there is apparently enough of a demand that some window makers are
sourcing them from Europe, via Glashaus Inc (Crystal Lake, Il) which is
the North American distributor for Weck Glass Blocks.

Weck was originally a German glass block company, but was bought a few
years ago by Seves - which (I believe) is an Italian company and which
I'm told has been buying many or most of the major European glass block
manufacturing companies.

The web-siteshttp://www.glashaus.com/andhttp://weck.com/are
identical, and from their products you can see that they do offer 3 of
their 8" x 8" blocks in the 2" wide format (technically, this is under
their Metric product line, where the blocks are 190 x 190 x 50 mm in
size).

It still might be the case that the availability of these 2" glass
blocks might be limited to window companies - or at the very least kept
out of the normal building-products retail chain (hence you won't see
them at Lowes, Home Depot, etc).

Glashaus lists their US and Canadian retail distributors, and so I will
be following up with the closest retailer to look into buying what I
need.

I hope this information is useful for the readers of alt.home.repair and
misc.consumers.house.

try
http://gbs.glassblk.com/Main.asp

products
glass blocks
decora or icecapes (either are avaible in 8x8x2)

contact the company for your local source

cheers
Bob

On Nov 19, 4:53*pm, Home Guy wrote:

next time I won't quote all of your post

DD_BobK unnecessarily full-quoted:

AND

I'll do a better job researching for you.

If you notice, you'll see that there no picture link for 2" blocks on
that site.

I'll be returning your payment.

Sorry the unacceptable effort.

cheers
Bob

DD_BobK wrote:

DD_BobK unnecessarily full-quoted:

next time I won't quote all of your post

Full-quoting is always bad form on usenet.

If you notice, you'll see that there no picture link for 2"
blocks on that site.

AND

I'll do a better job researching for you.

So it was wrong for me to post a mild correction, or additional info as
a reply to what you posted?

I'll be returning your payment.

Ha ha.

Sorry the unacceptable effort.

Where exactly did I beat you down over this - other than using
full-quoting bad form?

cheers

Oh really?

Your post didn't seem that cheer-full.