Off topic: Pre glazed door question

Jan 28, 2010 7 Replies

Apologies for being off topic, just wondered if any wood workers could answer a small problem I'm faced with. I did do a newsgroup search, but what came up looked fairly inactive.



Our new front door has been delivered, but its "Pre glazed" with plain glass. Now, the enemy did say she wants obscure glass. It's too late to return the door, got it cheap via a mates account with Howdens, and its now been cut for the letterbox and hinges. The chippy I spoke to just shrugged his shoulders and suggested getting stick on stuff with a pattern from a craft shop. He obviously doesn't know the wrath of the enemy I have been destined to suffer life with.



Question is: how do you remove or replace the glass if it got broken, or need to change the pattern, as there are no removable glazing beads? How do they put these things together (in China probably) ?



Bob


You should seriously consider getting stick-on obscurity. It's called manifestation and you can buy it on t'web. There are professional companies who apply it to glazing systems in office partitions in accordance with the health and safety and the interior designer's aesthetic requirements. It's proper stuff.

Worth googling for manifestation or window film and seeing if you can find anything you fancy.

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No idea - but perhaps you could double glaze the door with obscure glass?

-- Peter Fairbrother

Get a dicorce? Might be cheaper in the long run ;-)

Regards, Tony

Could you not get it sand/grit blasted to give you the 'Frosting' effect? It should not be a problem to make a mask to stop the wood getting too much over spray. T.W.

Seem to remember some windows at work years ago being frosted by applying varnish and stippling it as it dried.

Henry

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