Walk-on glass floors

Walk-on glass is nearly always solving a light problem: a basement, a lightwell, or a room in the middle of a plan with no outside wall of its own.

The glass has to carry the same load as the floor around it, sit flush with the deck or the screed, and not become an ice rink the first time it rains.

Laminated panels set into timber decking outside and into finished floors inside. One sits on an interior landing, with a sandblasted band worked into the surface for grip.

One of these photographs is taken from underneath, looking up through the panel, which explains the job better than any of the others do.

Multi-ply toughened laminated glass: several toughened plies bonded together, so that a broken ply is carried by the ones beneath it.

The makeup is calculated for each opening from its span, its load and how it is supported, rather than picked from a list. The walking surface is sandblasted or fritted for slip resistance, and the bearing detail is agreed with whoever is building the opening before any glass is ordered.

Glass

Multi-ply toughened laminated

Makeup

Calculated per opening, span, load and support

Surface

Sandblasted or fritted for slip resistance

Support

Bearing detail agreed before the glass is ordered

Used for

External decks, lightwells and internal floors