Residential glass
This is the service for a new pool barrier
A glass pool fence is a safety barrier first and a view second. Roxy Glass installs frameless and semi frameless pool fencing in toughened safety glass, with the gate hardware the barrier rules require. California requires an enclosure around a residential pool with a self closing and self latching gate, and the glass is what lets that barrier be almost invisible rather than a wall across the yard.
Free estimates, no obligation. Request a free glass pool fences estimate.
If any of the following describes what you are looking at, this is the service that handles it.
This page covers one kind of work within Glass Railings and Pool Fences. If you are not sure which you need, start there.
Everything else about a glass pool fence follows from that. These are the three things that decide whether yours works, and only one of them is about the glass.
Self closing hinges, a self latching catch, and a latch mounted high enough to be out of a small child's reach. A gate that has to be pulled shut by hand is a barrier that depends on somebody remembering.
Barrier rules govern the gap under the panels and between them, and the height of the barrier. A fence of beautiful glass with too large a gap at the bottom has not achieved anything at all.
Spigots into sound concrete is the simple case. Timber, pavers, a thin slab or waterproofing underneath each change the fixing method, and that is decided on site rather than from a catalog.
Barrier heights, gap limits and latch heights are set by the jurisdiction that issues your permit, and they differ across the Bay Area. Roxy Glass builds to the requirement that applies to your property. Ask us what the barrier has to achieve and we will tell you, but confirm the permit with your city or county rather than relying on any contractor's summary, including ours.
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
California requires a residential pool to have at least one approved safety feature, and an enclosure is the one most people choose. Where an enclosure is used it has to form a barrier around the water with a gate that closes and latches by itself. Local jurisdictions add their own requirements on top, so the authority that issues your permit is the authority to confirm the exact figures with. We build to the barrier requirement that applies to your property rather than to a general rule.
Because it is the part that fails. A fence panel does not change over time, but a gate that is propped open, or whose hinges have weakened so it no longer swings shut and latches on its own, has stopped being a barrier while still looking like one. Self closing hinges and a self latching catch mounted out of a small child's reach are what make the enclosure do its job, and they are the parts worth checking every year.
Yes. Pool fencing is toughened safety glass, typically much thicker than window glass, and a frameless panel gets its strength from the thickness of the glass and from how it is clamped at the base rather than from a frame around it. The panels are engineered for the loads a barrier has to take. The thing that decides whether the installation is sound is what the spigots are fixed into, which is why the deck matters more than the glass.
That is the question that decides the whole method, and it is the first thing we look at. Spigots fixed into a concrete deck of adequate thickness is the straightforward case. A timber deck, pavers on sand, a thin slab or a deck with waterproofing underneath all need a different approach, and in some cases a core fixing cannot be used at all and the fence becomes semi frameless with base plates instead. Nobody can answer this from a photograph of the pool alone.
A chip on the face can often be left. A chip or a nick on an edge is different and should be looked at, because toughened glass is at its most vulnerable at the edges and damage there can lead to the panel failing later, sometimes long after the knock that caused it. Send a close photo of the damage and a photo of the whole panel and we will tell you honestly whether it needs doing.
Deck, balcony, stair and pool glass in tempered or laminated safety glass, built to guard rail requirements.
Read about glass railings and pool fences
Interior glass walls, offices and meeting rooms that keep the light and the sightlines while dividing the space.
Read about glass partition walls
Frameless, semi frameless and framed shower glass, measured and fitted to the opening you actually have.
Read about shower doors and enclosures
Next step
Send a photo of the pool from a few feet back showing the deck surface, and tell us roughly how many feet of fencing and how many gates you need. The deck is what we most need to see.
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.
