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Glass Block

  • 11-09-2009 12:54pm
    #1
    tomc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 272 ✭✭


    Hi

    Anybody used Glass Block before? Any hints or tips? Wher can you get it?
    Am hoping to build a side wall to a shower cabinet in Glass block and would like some more information?

    Regards

    TomC


Comments

  • #2
    yop
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 16,724 Mod ✭✭✭✭yop


    Tom
    I built ours using glass blocks. Its "fairly (depending on how DIY you are!)" easy to do

    I got ours from a plumbers suppliers, but I would expect that the like of Heiton Buckleys or Chadwicks have them also.

    The will supply you with spaces and cement.

    We then just used a moldfree white grout.

    Could only build about 3 or 4 lines at a time in order to let it set;

    Have a look at my blog in my sig to see the pics. They are there somewhere on the blog! :)


  • #3
    fintan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 647 ✭✭✭fintan


    if you google glass blocks you will find a number of companies that can supply them and most are cheaper than the DIY stores mentioned by YOP, so definietly woth shopping around.

    Disclaimer - I know the chaps who own glassblocks.ie


  • #4
    evolving_doors
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭evolving_doors


    These guys between kilmainham and phoenix park sell em
    macswarehouse.ie/index.php?searchstring=glass
    Dont know about adhesive...but they have that in B&Q aswell as their own glassblocks...I've seen them in a building once but the adhesive application looked brutal..


  • #5
    Cushla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 128 ✭✭Cushla


    I have some blue ones in my house. I love them & yes they are definitely worth pricing around. My friends husband put them in for me & I'm fairly sure he just used stuff called stixall. It comes in a tube like silicon and is good...They kinda slot into each other too-again as far as I can remember.


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