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About starfire glass

Raw glass

Tweet What is starfire or starphire glass?  And what is the difference between low iron glass and any regular glass? What is ultra clear glass? in order to answer all those question we need to start with the basics. As  you all know glass is solid material made of mostly from silica some soda and some lime. Take … Read more

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Surviving Hurricane Sandy

A tree on the roof.

Tweet We, here in  Northern New Jersey, are not accustomed to hurricanes. Not like Floridians, anyway. They get them a few times per year and they are prepared – They build differently. They know the might of water and wind, and  make considerations accordingly. We, on the other hand, have trees that stand 60 ft high. Oaks … Read more

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Gallery

Publication in Architectural Digest

This gallery contains 6 photos.

Tweet   Hi there, It seems yesterday it was a May 15 outside and look at this! Kids are back in school!  How that happened? Where was I last 3 months? I had planned so many things for summer and did not do half of it! But enough for this! There were some exiting things in world … Read more

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SHOWER DOOR HINGES

SHOWER DOOR HINGES

Tweet Every time where there is a door, there is a hinge. And shower doors are no exception. Every one of them is using hinges. Except, of course the sliding doors; those use rollers. And when I am consulting architects ,I am being asked very often what kind of hinges are going to be used with … Read more

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Atlanta Glass Expo

Atlanta View From Hotel

Tweet Hi guys,                    For all of you, who haven’t heard, from the 12th to the  14th of September there was a glass show going on in Atlanta, Georgia. It was not kitchen and bath show, but rather glass show organized by glass industry and for glass industry. … Read more

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Its been busy!

SLIDING DOOR

Tweet Hi Guys,  Sorry did not do any updated for long time. No new posts, no new pictures. Its been very busy lately.  In the office and outside too. But no matter, no matter – here are some pictures.            All of them are Sliding Doors. The first picture shows a Square Header, … Read more

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New Addition to Hall of Fame

REGAL 1

Tweet Here are some of the jobs we did to to long ago. Actually, they are somewhat the best jobs we completed between in January and April of 2011. This is Regal series door. Solid Brass Frame in Polished Nickel finish. It is Door and Panel. Door is 1/4 Low Iron Glass, fully framed and panel … Read more

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Matrix shower doors – demystified

Matrix shower,  corner unit

Tweet   It was 3-4 years ago, when my boss first showed me a picture of a shower door made somewhere in Europe and said:” This is our next model line!” Then there were two engineers, year and a half of drawing table, tests, negotiations, manufactures… in short -  all the pleasures of creating a new … Read more

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GLASS COATING

Tweet   Protective glass coating becomes increasingly popular these days. And as it happens in any competitive filed there are a lot of misconceptions and misunderstanding about it. Shady companies in their search for customers are advertising class coating as an absolute solution to shower door cleaning; promising that there will be no cleaning at all … Read more

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TILES AND CURB

Tweet   It is very very important! Because the final look of your shower will depend on how good your tile work is. When a measurer comes to your residence to measure the opening for shower door he also will measure the plumb and level condition of the wall and sill, so called “out of square” … Read more

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