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Glass door replacement and installation

glass door Installing glass doors is a complex and important process. This type of work is not very different from the method of installation of wooden linen, but still has its own characteristic differences. How to install glass doors and what to look for is an urgent question for many people. And here are the main features of such an installation: The first feature. Due to the fact that the glass door has a weight several times larger than the wooden counterpart, the installation of such a construction on its own is an extremely complex process. Therefore, if you are not sure that you will be able to do it yourself, then it is better to rely on specialists. The second feature. The door must be made strictly according to specific dimensions. This is due to the fact that the finished door can not be adjusted to the size of the opening. Based on this, be sure to keep track of the correct size of your glass doors and doorway sizes. glass door The third feature.  ...

What makes a mirror a mirror?

  The forerunners of modern mirrors were polished pieces of obsidian and bronze discs.  But the Romans began to put metal plates under pieces of colored glass, which led to a better reflection in them of surrounding objects.     In the 13th century, with the beginning of the production of transparent glass vessels, a glassblower poured tin into the interior of such a vessel, and when it cooled, it smashed the vessel. Later, they learned how to roll glass into flat sheets.     In the 16th century, amalgam, an alloy of mercury and tin, was first used for the production of mirrors.  Amalgam-coated mirrors gave a pale reflection.  In their manufacture had to deal with toxic substances.  There have been cases when workers were poisoned to death by mercury fumes.     Therefore, after some time, the amalgam was abandoned.  In the 19th century, the German scientist J. Liebig Invented a harmless, unlike mercury, co...