Glass

We offer one of the largest ranges of Glass & Glazing in the South West from clear Window Glass to Specialist Laminates and Safety Glass not to mention mirrors, Glass shelves and splash backs.

We also offer a complete Installation Service and Emergency Glazing, please call your local branch and we can discuss your specific requirements

Glass Cutter
Man Holding pane of glasspane of glass being loaded to camel van

Cut glass, sealed units, glazing & glass replacement service
At Camel we stock a full range of glass for window, doors, sheds, greenhouses and picture frame glass, with a cut while you wait service on our stocked glass products.
Sealed units and toughened glass are manufactured to your unique requirements but still typically can be turned around in 5-10 days.

Double glazed units are available in a range of glass types for insulation, noise reduction, solar control or safety and security. There are different spacer bars and argon or Krypton gas filled options, we can help on measuring and offer a full survey service.

We also offer a full and comprehensive glazing and emergency glass replacement service for domestic or commercial glazing, we supply and install sealed glass units to replace your misted double glazing, or for your new windows.

  • Clear float glass
  • Patterned glass
  • Horticultural glass
  • Laminated glass
  • Toughened safety glass
  • Fire glass
  • Wired glass
  • Mirror glass
  • Glass for log burners and glass stoves
  • shelves and table tops.
  • Painted glass splash backs

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Glass Types

This glass has a slight texture to both surfaces which reduces reflection . The glass appears transparent when placed less than 12mm from the object to be viewed.

Nominal thickness Aprox weight Application
Kg/mtr sq

2mm 5.0 Picture framing

Clear annealed glass (also known as float glass)
This is the most commonly used type of glass found in windows. It is readily available, relatively low cost and easily cut to size. British standard 952 defines clear float glass as being transparent glass, the surface of which are flat and parallel, so that they provide clear undistorted vision and reflection.

Nominal thickness Aprox weight Application
Kg/mtr sq

2mm 5.0 Picture framing.

3mm 7.5 Glazing small areas in domestic and commercial building
4mm 10.0 Domestic & commercial window glazing
5mm 12.5
6mm 15.0 Larger glazed panes.

10mm 25.0 Mainly toughened, infill panels for balustrade, shower
enclosures, frames glass doors.
12mm 30.0 Mainly toughened for frameless assemblies of large panes
15mm 37.5 Aquaria, toughened for table tops, balustrade, where
strength is essential
19mm 47.5
25mm 63.5

Produced by subjecting annealed glass to a heating and rapid cooling process. This process greatly increases its ability to resist external forces such as mechanical loading and thermal shock. In general a toughened glass will withstand a load in excess of five times greater than a similar untreated glass and therefore can tolerate a much greater degree of deflection & twisting. It will resist sudden temperature changes and can withstand a temperature of 250 degrees C. If toughened glass is hit with a sharp pointed object it will disintegrate into comparatively harmless granular particles. Toughened glass is more prone to susceptible to spontaneous breakage than annealed or heat strengthened glass. Spontaneous breakage can result from impact damage, weld splatter, windblown debris and internal inclusion of Nickel sulphate.

Heat soaking is an additional heating process to detect and reject any toughened glass where nickel sulphate inclusion may be present. This process involves heating the glass and then slowly cooling, any glass that has nickel sulphate inclusions will break in the kiln under this process. The treated glass has slightly different properties to toughened. On breakage, clusters of the toughened particles will often clump together to form larger sections.

Toughened glass must to be cut or worked. This can seriously affect its properties and is likely to result in breakage. All drilling, notching, cutting, etc. must be carried out before being toughened. There are also limitations to the location of notches, drill holes and cut outs in toughened glass.

The nature of the toughened process makes it difficult to produce toughened glass as consistently flat as annealed glass. Roller wave & roller pick up are just some of the common visual imperfections that will be found.

One surface is imprinted with a decorative pattern

Nominal thickness Aprox weight
Kg/mtr sq

4mm 10.0 Maximum sheet size 1320 width x 2140 height
6mm 15.0 Maximum sheet size 1320 width x 2140 height

Moulded bullions can be manufactured from clear or patterned glass in thickness’s of 3mm – 6mm. They are manufactured by cutting a single pane of flat glass and heating this over a mould in a furnace, until the glass resembles the shape of the mould.

Traditional bullions or roundels are formed from blowing and spinning a piece of glass to the desired size, they are supplied in the round and cut to size.