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Glass services include

 

  • 24 hour response in Dorchester*
  • No call out fee
  • Fast 30-90 min arrival*
  • Commercial & domestic toughened glass installation
  • Insurance approved & guaranteed
  • Free written valuation & quotes

Toughened glass Dorchester

Dorchester glass services

24 hour* Dorchester toughened glass

Customer Name: Dr T Hetherington.
I would like to express how pleased I was the service your engineer provided us, without a doubt I will definitely use you again when/if needed.
12/10/2010
  • Town: Dorchester
  • Address: Monmouth Road
  • Post Code: DT1 2DH
  • County: Dorset**
  • Local tel.no: 01305 360821
  • The address provided is not our office address

Local towns:

  • St Leonards
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  • Dorchester
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  • Overcombe
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  • Weymouth
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  • Gillingham Dorset
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  • Wimborne Minster
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  • Wimbourne
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  • West Moors
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  • Dorset
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  • Bournemouth
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  • Wimborne
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  • Corfe Mullen
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  • Swanage
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  • Sherborne
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  • Verwood
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  • Fortuneswell
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  • Stowting
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  • Lyme Regis
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  • Broadstone
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  • Christchurch
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  • Easton
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  • Bridport
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  • Portland
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  • Weston
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  • Ferndown
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  • Shaftesbury
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  • Blandford Forum
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  • Poole

Example of our glass services

Toughened Glass
There are two types of “Toughened” glass; “heat-treated” and “chemically treated”. There are then two further types of heat-treated glass; “heat-strengthened”, and “fully-tempered”. Fully-tempered heats the glass to above its annealing point, and then rapidly cools the glass. This makes it approximately four to six times tougher than standard float glass, enabling it to qualify as a safety glass that conforms to BS 6206 Class A.

Heat-strengthened follows a similar process, but is only twice as tough, and does not qualify as a safety glass. Chemical toughening involves running the glass through a bath of molten potassium nitrate, which exchanges the smaller sodium ions in the glass, with the bigger potassium ions in the molten bath.

The advantages of this are two-fold; the glass is tougher than when heat treated, and this approach can be applied to glass of complex shapes and sizes, making it suitable not just for glass sheets, but also for glass ornaments, and glass of unusual sizes.

Dorchester toughened glass services

Express Dorchester glazing experts offer a variety of safety glass services including toughened glass installations and replacements. Toughened glass will usually shatter into small fragments instead of sharp shards when broken, making it less likely to cause severe injury and deep lacerations. This is particularly useful for certain frames such as cat flaps, glass doors and tables.

Our Dorchester toughened glass normally takes three to five working days to order in for both single and double-glazed options. This glass is recommended for Dorchester residential customers, as the glass shatters into relatively harmless fragments upon impact, as opposed to the larger, more dangerous shards caused by breakage of normal glass. However, due to the security risk of having a large hole when the glass has been shattered, we do not recommend this for our Dorchester commercial customers, whom we offer laminate glass to instead.

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