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So bought some banisters and base rails that were sold as for 8 or 10mm glass.
The routing of the base rail looks to be (looking from the top) about 11mm wide for about 1cm depth then about 9mm wide for a further cm or so. So it looks like an 8mm pane sits on the bottom of the channel and a 10mm sits on a tiny ridge of a 1or 2mm. I was planning on 10mm glass but I’m not sure if this is a recipe for disaster and so either need to change the rails or go for thinner glass. WWSTWD?
WWSTWD?
Read the instructions 🙂
I'd doubt they'd be intend for 8 and 10mm glass to sit in different positions otherwise the sheet sizes you'd use would be wrong (or right) depending on what thickness you use. You'd expect something instead for use with two thickness to have an insert of some sort for the thinner material
WWSTWD?
Get someone in that knows what they're doing?
Alas they didn’t come with instructions. But didn’t think they’d need them!
Definitely marketed as for 8 or 10. Didn’t really know how was going to cater for the two thickness but assumed would be wide enough for the 10. I May need to send them back as not being fit for purpose but was wondering if It was in any way “standard” for these sort of things.
If it were me and I was concerned I'd just stick an 8mm bit of strip wood out similar in the channel to level it up
Can you stick a picture on?
If there's enough 'meat' left in the rail under the deeper groove and the glass is bonded in, then there may not be a problem as such.
Hard to say without looking at scale.
Don't the manufacturer say owt?
You are effectively trapping the glass between the base and the top rail, with fixed fillets between the glass panels and a shit ton of silicone to hold it all in. You will end using more silicone ( to fill the deeper hole for 8mm glass - unless the kit came with an infill piece).
The 10mm specific rails I have seen in the past have a groove depth of around 15mm.
I have never fitted any in the past, but I have seen people do it.
The width of the upper bit of the slot is 11mm and the lower is 9mm so a 10mm pane is resting on 1mm plus a bit of friction.
So looking at the cross section is like this.
| 11mm |
| 9mm |
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