NSGCG offers fully comprehensive stained glass protective covering specifications down to the smallest detail for virtually every style, type and configuration imaginable.
Our experience in having designed fabricated and installed protective coverings allows us to know what’s best suited for your individual windows, facilities and long-term goals.
In our experience, no one type, or style of protective covering is right for every window. Should you be considering an inset system? Outset with extrusions? Perimeter framed architecturally complimentary system? Or how about the different glazing options such as glass or acrylic? How about whether the system should be vented? Vented from the interior or exterior? What type of venting such as pressure venting or convection venting? There are many more variables and when you change one variable, you should often change another to meet proper tolerances and specifications.
Precise and proper specifications will help ensure that you not only have a beautiful system, but one which will be functional, offer proper protection without causing any damage to the valuable stained glass.
One of the most common questions we are asked about protective coverings is the difference in thermal insulation value between glass and acrylic. While this is an easy and simple answer, there are many more important factors for you to consider when investing in a protective covering. We will help you understand which is best for your long-term needs.
NSGCG protective covering specifications include but are not limited to the following:
Installation type such as inset, outset, channel set, architectural framing, mirroring etc.
Extrusion type, profiles etc. (using plastics such as acrylics requires a different extrusion than required for glass).
Sealant specifications, (using plastics such as acrylics requires a different sealant than required for glass) (and often requires a different sealant between extrusions and the outer substrate).
Tie in or tie out methods and materials.
Hardware or fastener specifications
Venting methods and specifications
Detailed drawings or diagrams of extrusion locations, and or extrusions to be bent (individual window types and configurations receive individual specifications)
NSGCG will make sure you have the proper protective covering system installed over your stained glass windows.
