Poor quality of available 2mm float glass

kev@frames · Post by **kev@frames** » Thu 28 Jun, 2007 5:33 pm

probably the same supplier, John, we dont have that many to choose from

Lovely stuff to work with, agreed!

i will be over for that cup of tea and fillet lesson soon! But It looks like we'll have to go outside to smoke

Merlin · Post by **Merlin** » Thu 28 Jun, 2007 5:37 pm

No probs on that one

Away at LIONS next Tues and Wed. After that feel free....

Not your average framer · Fri 06 Jul, 2007 10:45 pm

I have the choice of three available glass suppliers. I switched from my original supplier after having problems with the quality of the glass.

Then my current supplier stopped supplying "Hungard", which is my favorite choice of standard glass. Recently, they have been supplying glass with blue markings on the corners.

Glass supplier No: 3, who is keen to supply me, has now informed me that these blue markings are put on automatically at the glass factory to indicate optically flawed glass, which is normally not supplied for high quality usage. Which is very interesting!

Suppliers 2 and 3, both say that Hungard are pulling out of 2mm glass production at the end of the year.

Supplier No:1 is again supplying Hungard, but at a much higher price.

I am trying some glass next week from No:3 supplier, to see what theirs is like!

Grahame Case · Post by **Grahame Case** » Sat 07 Jul, 2007 8:09 am

no problems with our 2mm float here, perfect throughout the sheet in this batch.. wish it was the same all the time,

had a few really dodgy batches witch have a manufacturing flaw all the way through them, sort of like a thin vein of silvering.

dottad · Post by **dottad** » Tue 10 Jul, 2007 2:41 pm

This discussion couldn't have come at a better time. I have just been shopping around for glass prices here in Aberdeen. ROM me thinks!!!
One quoted £7.22/m2 and the other £8/m2. The last lot of glass we got had small chips in some of them, usually epi-centre of the piece you need...
I don't know what manufacture this glass is, but will certainly ask the question.

Dot

Not your average framer · Thu 12 Jul, 2007 9:25 pm

I decided to try glass from Solid Glass. They delivered it today, 30 sheets for £2.65 a sheet (3ft x 4ft). Only used one sheets so far, but its looking great so far. They have a glass washing machine and wash and check the glass before dispatching it. If the rest of the batch is as good, I'll be going with them in future.

Price is not everything, but my previous supplier has lost me inspite of the same good price, because of the drop in quality.

WelshFramer · Post by **WelshFramer** » Fri 13 Jul, 2007 11:33 am

Not your average framer wrote:I decided to try glass from Solid Glass.

Do they deliver nationally?

Not your average framer · Fri 13 Jul, 2007 7:18 pm

WelshFramer wrote: Do they deliver nationally?

I don't think they do the whole country, but they have a branch in Bristol and the telephone number is 01275 859280.

kev@frames · Post by **kev@frames** » Fri 20 Jul, 2007 2:46 am

im gobsmacked at the price of glass in some areas!

I think ours has just gone up to 2.75 plus vat for a 4ftx3ft sheet, up from 2.50, but i think this is due to a "gentleman's" agreement with our supplier that we get other stuff from them at the same time.

I recall paying £1 a sheet for it some time back when the "going rate" from the same supplier's manchester depot was a fiver!

remember the good old (bad old) days when westward art frames deliveries arrived in 3 ton mercedes vans so overloaded with glass that the bodies had distorted and they all had a crack in the windscreen.
Then they all pitched up in Lithuanian Zeta vans with weird number plates and no road tax...

at one point in the last round of glass wars one of our suppliers bought a whole container full of damaged glass, and had employees "sort" it. One compensation claim for an almost-lost arm, six months off work, and fifteen grand compensation to a van driver put an end to that muppetry....

Aye, glass wars.... the horror.... the horror.....