Fireplace Glasses: Types And Forms, Design Options

With such a huge variety of fireplaces it's easy to get confused and get confused. This article is aimed at making it easier for you to choose fireplace mantels, to give clear information on types of models, existing forms.

Progress does not stand still, and the modern market of fireplace inserts is rapidly expanding, producing in the manufacture of fire glasses of various shapes and sizes, suitable for different designs. Most often the fireboxes with non-standard glass are oriented to fashion trends in interior design, sometimes they are also designed to solve the problem of placing a fireplace in small rooms.

Fireplace glasses come in different types depending on their shape, quantity and size. Each model of the furnace has its own features in installation and operation, as well as its advantages and disadvantages. The length varies up to 65 cm (small), from 70 to 90 cm (medium), from 1 to 2 m (large, two-meter are made on individual orders).

The form can be divided into:

• standard flat (simple, straight) rectangular glass - the most popular option, the cheapest for the price of glass and installation of the fireplace portal, with the guillotine allows you to fully raise the front door upwards

• Vertical glass is a convenient alternative if the width of the furnace chamber is limited; Is appreciated by aesthetes for a complete vertical survey of the flame in the hearth

• semicircular (oval, radial) glass - the radius of curvature can be either barely noticeable, or reach 180 ° or more; A non-standard form of construction using curvilinear glass is the cause of high prices for these models and is often used in the interior of hi-tech

• trapezoidal (prismatic, erkernoe, trihedral) glass - increases the view of the burning hearth, but because of the high cost of trihedral glass and the need to build a complex portal, these furnaces gradually lose their relevance due to their thunderbolt

• Wide-angle glass - the ratio of the width of the glass to the height in the proportion of 16: 9, more often acts as a worthy decoration of the interior. Such a fireplace can be placed in the center of the room, allowing you to admire the open fire from any point of view

• spherical glass - 360 ° circular view, most often the firebox with such a glass is installed in the center of the room; Among the models there are hanging specimens

By the number of glasses, the furnaces are distinguished:

• one-sided - standard models with single glass

• Two-sided angular (L-shaped, equilateral) - two glasses are in the adjacent plane, this furnace is conveniently located in the corner of the room and does not take up much space

• two-way through (tunnel) - require a particularly careful handling of the glass, depending on the model, both doors can be with side opening, or one with a side and one with a guillotine, or both with a guillotine

• three-side - the front glass can be wider or narrower (the "U" shape) of the side walls, such furnaces are mainly used for wall fireplaces

• Panoramic (four sides) - like spherical ones - are installed in the center of the room and visually divide the space of the room, At the same time, access to the fire is open to all sides

Non-standard forms of glass make a variety in the external appearance of the fireplaces and give an opportunity to express the individual taste of each buyer. Our articles repair and construction will help you to pick up not only fireplaces, fireplaces, but also will give the necessary and correct information on household appliances, furniture, building materials.