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How to Clean Large Glass Panels Safely

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Start With Access, Not Cleaning Products With large architectural glazing, the first consideration should not be which cleaning product to use, but whether the glass can be reached safely in the first place. Floor-to-ceiling windows, tall fixed panes and expansive glazed elevations can appear straightforward from inside a room, yet their external surfaces may sit […]

Preparing Your Glazing for a UK Winter

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Why Winter Reveals More About Your Glazing Windows and glazed doors form part of the boundary between two very different environments, and winter makes that role particularly noticeable. As external temperatures fall and heating keeps the interior warmer, the difference between conditions inside and outside becomes greater. Add stronger winds, prolonged rain and higher levels […]

What Scandinavian and Alpine Design Get Right About Glass

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Glass Is Not the Architecture — It Serves the Architecture Large areas of glass have become closely associated with contemporary residential architecture. It is easy to understand why. Glazing can bring daylight deep into a home, create a stronger relationship with the landscape and give rooms a sense of openness that would be difficult to […]

How Interior Glazing Is Changing Open-Plan Homes

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Why Open-Plan Living Is Being Reconsidered Open-plan living transformed the way modern homes were designed because it answered several problems at once. Removing internal walls could bring kitchens, dining areas and living rooms together, allow daylight to travel further through a floor plan and create a greater sense of space within an existing footprint. In […]