Glass Shelving

We're replastering our lounge and I want to add 3 or 4 thick curved glass shelves fitted into a corner with no visible supports.

The glass shelves will be a quarter-circle (ie a 90 degree segment) with an outer radius of approximately 75 cm and the inner corner cut out at a radius of approximately 15 cm to provide space for the cables. I'd also like to embed some high-intensity blue LEDs in the slot so that they illuminate the glass from within.

What I'm thinking of doing is creating a slot in the plaster for each shelf to slide into by fixing 2 parallel wooden batons to the underlying brickwork on each side of the corner so that the lower batons support the weight of the shelf and the upper batons stop the shelf from tipping forward.

Does this sound feasible?

I want these shelves to support my AV equipment and the heaviest unit is the amplifier which comes in at about 13 kilos! So I think that I'm going to need some pretty thick glass! My 'wets finger and holds it in the air estimate' was to go for at least 25mm glass.

Does anyone know how to calculate the required thickness of glass (or at least have some experience to provide a better guesstimate)

Any idea of the costs for getting glass cut to size/shape? Any recommendations for suppliers (I'm near Brighton)

All suggestions gratefully received.

Perry

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Perry Gunn
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How do you figure that? Our bathroom scales have a (toughened) glass platform 8mm thick, and a maximum capacity of 150kg.

I think that this is the least of your worries - I'd be surprised if you had any problems with 6mm glass. Much more of a problem is going to be supporting the glass. How deep do you intend your battens to be? I would think you need at least 20mm support on both sides. Are you plastering to that depth?

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Grunff

I know that when I wanted some rectangular shelves shortened a few years ago that they can't cut toughened glass and I thought that thicker untoughened glass would be easier to get hold of

I was planning to cut out some of the brick and recess the batons into the brickwork

Reply to
Perry Gunn

The glass is cut to size first, then toughened. TBH, I doubt you need toughened glass for this application.

Reply to
Grunff

Or glass that is called something like pre-tensile I think. A glazier will know what you need, ask for advice in there. The pre-tensile glass isn't toughened, but I think it's heat treated to bond any false laminations that might cause it to break in a bending load situation.

Don't quote me on this, but it's something I heard about many moons ago while doing the same sort of job as Perry is.

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BigWallop

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