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    The use of glass blocks in the construction and repair

    SOLAR HOUSE WITH WALLS OF AIR
     
    Imagine the house in which every corner, even remote from the window penetrating light. You enter the apartment into the hallway or in the spacious hall of the cottage, and see how the shimmer around the living spark of light. It's simple: the walls of the house are decorated with not strict standard European-quality repair, and unusual glass « tiles ». This glass blocks, or transparent « bricks » from glass. Of course, use it as a finishing material no one came in the head. Now that the primitive glass block has found a large number of shapes and colors, it is increasingly diverse and used in the design of buildings. Today we tell you about it « old, but new » building material, reborn.
     
    The shape of the glass block is really like a brick, but inside it is hollow. It is the air trapped in it, gives this material excellent heat-saving and sound insulation properties. The surface of the « brick » It can be smooth, grooved, transparent, matt and even color. The most common commercially glass blocks thickness of 7.5 to 10 cm and its weight is 2.5 to 4.3. In form they are square or rectangular. Standard dimensions of contemporary glass blocks – 19 x 19 x 8 cm or 24 x 24 x 8 cm. In addition, they are more triangular, and even circular corner (such are mainly used for finishing corners, columns, etc.).
     
    Glass blocks took all the best from their « brothers » of clay. Therefore, one can build elegant interior partitions and even the facades of buildings.
     
     
     
    Such walls have high durability, can withstand significant changes in temperature and even light earthquake. When the apparent fragility of such glass can be broken only heavy sledgehammer. The airspace within glass block provides good thermal and sound insulation. Street noise, for example, they are quenched with the same efficiency as the bricks of the same thickness. One of the most remarkable properties of glass bricks – It is that they do not burn. In case of fire, such a wall does not crack and does not melt over an hour. Not by chance, this material is widely used in fire areas, enterprises. As optical properties of glass blocks are translucent (with a smooth surface face of the walls), light-scattering and light guide (grooved) .Poetomu choose the color, texture and pattern glass block taking into account the purpose for which they are intended.
     
    Glass blocks are used primarily for building curtain walls. Due to these properties they traditionally use in enterprises and organizations, when you can not put the usual window frames. Quite often we have to see them in the openings on the landings. Glass blocks perfectly « get along » with moisture, so it is especially good in sports complexes, locker rooms, pools, saunas.
     
    However, the move away from practical properties of glass blocks and turn to its aesthetic possibilities. Recently, glass blocks have become a fashionable material, and in living rooms, sometimes allows to find unexpected solutions in interior design. Glass blocks provide great opportunities to designers, architects and builders, because they allow « play » with the light.
     
     
     
    Choosing between transparent, opaque, colored and colorless variants, we can achieve a degree of illumination that is needed. For example, glass made of transparent glass is passed up to 80 percent of the light, and color - 50-75 percent. And, do of them not only the walls in the toilets and bathrooms, but use just as a decorative element. There are a variety of solutions.
     
    The wall separating the hallway from the living room can look very impressive, if build from solid wood interspersed with glass blocks. Recently, the reconstruction of apartments are increasingly combined kitchen and living room. Often they are separated by a wide counter, which exposed ready-made meals. Now this reception is done in most cases made of wood or bricks. Glass blocks with well-designed illumination can make the kitchen counter remarkable element of the interior.
     
    Another great opportunity transparent « brick » It opens in cottage construction. They even trim ceilings and roofs in private homes. Very decorative look wall adjacent to the stair marches. A large part of the walls of the winter garden or conservatory can also be made of glass blocks, even the roof. It will be much stronger than used traditional materials, but from an engineering point of view of the device it is more complicated. This material can be great to combine with others: for example, the lower part of the wall – brick, concrete or wood, and the upper – of glass blocks. Or naoborot.Steklobloki interesting for architects and designers also because they can serve as stained glass. By combining color, texture and sizes, alternating matte and smooth glass blocks can create an entire composition. There are pictures with the effect of water droplets or bubbles, which are ideal for finishing pools, water parks, saunas, bathrooms.
     
     
     
    First of all, a rich selection of colors and shades (blue, blue, red, brown, pink), variety of textures and patterns, different sizes and shapes. Glass blocks Czech (firm « VitraBlok »), Italian (« Vetroarredo », « Kogir Glass »), French (« Saint-Gobain ») production can range from 7 to 20 dollars apiece, sometimes as high as $ 50 . Here, the price corresponds to the type and quality. On the surface of these glass blocks applied to drawing of tiny colored glass beads. Of these, you can upload the whole mural with images of landscapes, animals, flowers, abstract patterns.
     
    The most sturdy and quality among the experts considered glass blocks produced in Germany (« Century », « Solaris »). Buying glass blocks, you can purchase and related goods to them. For example, in case of need the device vents in the glass wall, fit a plastic ventilator the size of glass block. Or the same size ventilation grille. To the ornamental design in the finished as consistent with what was intended, it is important to put glass blocks. When laying glass blocks of cement used krestooobraznye spacers. If you use a gray cement, the joints need to cover up for the tile grout. Better yet, just take a colored cement. Protective film with them can only be removed after installation.
     
    There is also a way to install a glass wall as wooden lattice-module. Each box is inserted into the cell module and then fastened with screws to the grating floor, wall and ceiling. In an experienced interior there will always be an original solution for your home, and a place for that particular material. Fill the house with light and sunshine will help you professionals.
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