Commercial glass
This is the service for offices in an open plan floor
Glass partition walls divide an interior without closing it in. Roxy Glass measures, supplies and installs framed and frameless glass partitions, glass office fronts and glass meeting room walls in tempered safety glass, including sliding and swing glass doors and the tracks and hardware that go with them.
Free estimates, no obligation. Request a free glass partition walls estimate.
If any of the following describes what you are looking at, this is the service that handles it.
Planning a fit out
Partition glass is made to order and cannot be altered on site, so these decisions are worth settling before anything is measured.
A meeting room where confidential conversations happen needs a different specification from a quiet booth. Decide privacy room by room, because upgrading the glass everywhere to suit the most demanding room is an expensive way to solve one problem.
Frameless gives the cleanest look and the most light. Framed and channel systems are more forgiving of site conditions, easier to reconfigure and generally less expensive.
Swing doors need clear space to open into. Sliding doors save that floor space but need a clear wall to slide against and are harder to seal well. This choice affects both the layout and the acoustic performance.
Large areas of clear glass on a walking route need to be visible. That requirement is also an opportunity, since frosted bands, printed patterns and applied graphics all solve it while doing something for the space.
Partitions have to interface with the ceiling grid, the lighting, the sprinklers, the air conditioning and the floor finish. Coordinating that before measuring avoids the most common and most expensive fit out clash.
The work itself
These are the stages the job actually runs through, from the first look at the opening to the finished glass.
What happens next
Call the line for your area or send the estimate form. A photo of the damage and a rough measurement lets us tell you straight away whether it is a glass only repair or a full replacement.
Glass is cut to the opening, not to a catalog size, so the measurement has to be exact. For most jobs we measure on site. For a simple pane you can measure it yourself and we will tell you how.
The estimate is free and it sets out the glass type, the thickness, whether safety glazing is required and what the work involves. Nothing is ordered until you approve it.
Standard glass is usually cut at our Newark shop. Sealed double pane units, tempered glass and made to order shapes are fabricated to your measurements, which is what sets the lead time.
We fit the glass, check that it seals and operates properly, and take the old glass and packaging away with us.
Cost
Roxy Glass does not publish a fixed price for this work, because the price depends on the opening in front of us. Estimates are free, so the fastest way to get a real number is to send the measurements and a photo, or to have us come and measure.
Where we do this work
This work is carried out from our Newark shop across Santa Clara County, San Mateo County, Alameda County, Contra Costa County, San Francisco and southern Marin County.
Santa Clara County from San Jose out to Los Gatos and Cupertino.
San Jose, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Cupertino, Campbell, Los Gatos, Saratoga, Milpitas.
San Mateo County and the northern Santa Clara Valley.
Palo Alto, Mountain View, San Mateo, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Menlo Park, Atherton, Redwood City, San Carlos, Belmont, Foster City, Burlingame, Millbrae, San Bruno.
The Tri City area, the Hayward and Oakland corridor and the shoreline cities.
Fremont, Newark, Union City, Hayward, San Leandro, San Lorenzo, Castro Valley, Alameda, Richmond.
Inland Alameda County and central Contra Costa County.
Walnut Creek, Pleasanton, Dublin, Livermore, Sunol, San Ramon, Danville, Alamo, Lafayette, Moraga, Orinda, Pleasant Hill, Concord, Martinez.
San Francisco, northern San Mateo County and southern Marin County.
San Francisco, South San Francisco, Daly City, San Rafael, Mill Valley, Larkspur, Corte Madera, San Anselmo, Tiburon.
Send your details on the free estimate form and the team that covers your address will answer. You can also call the Newark shop on (510) 400-7788, which is where every Bay Area job is dispatched from.
Questions
Less than a solid wall, and how much less depends heavily on the specification. Single glazed frameless partitions block conversational sound but are not private. Laminated glass performs noticeably better than plain tempered glass, and a double glazed partition better again. The weakest points are almost always the gaps at the floor, the ceiling and around the door rather than the glass itself, so the seals matter as much as the panel.
Framed and channel based systems can generally be taken down and reconfigured, which is one of their advantages over building a stud wall. The glass panels themselves are cut to specific sizes and cannot be trimmed, so a new layout usually needs at least some new panels. If you expect to reconfigure, tell us at the design stage and the run can be planned in more repeatable panel widths.
They need to be measured, not perfect. Very few commercial floors and suspended ceilings are dead level across a long run, and that is normal. We measure the actual conditions at several points and the panels and channels are made to suit. A partition ordered from a drawing rather than a site measurement is the usual reason a run does not fit.
Partition glass is tempered safety glass, which is much stronger than ordinary glass and breaks into small blunt pieces. Full height glass also needs to be visible so that people do not walk into it, which is normally handled with manifestation such as a frosted band, a printed pattern or applied graphics at eye level. We will raise it if a proposed layout has large areas of unmarked clear glass across a walking route.
The panels are made to your measured sizes, so the fabrication lead time between measuring and installing is what sets the schedule. The installation itself is usually quick relative to the lead time. In an occupied office we can normally work in sections or outside working hours so the floor stays usable.
Storefront windows, entry doors and aluminum framing repaired or replaced so the business can reopen.
Read about storefront glass
Full height mirror walls for gyms, studios and salons, installed with safety backing.
Read about gym mirrors and mirror walls
Deck, balcony, stair and pool glass in tempered or laminated safety glass, built to guard rail requirements.
Read about glass railings and pool fences
Next step
Send a floor plan or the run lengths and ceiling height, and tell us how many doors you need. We will tell you what the specification should be and what the timing looks like.
Estimates are free. Tell us what broke, send a photo if you have one, and we will tell you whether it is a glass only repair or a full replacement before any work is booked.
Leave a message or use the estimate form and we will reply when we open.
