Gold-framed corner shower enclosure with brass hinges and handles, book-matched grey and rust marble wall behind

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Aluminium & Glass Works

Glass is unforgiving. It is either measured right or it is scrap, because nothing can be trimmed once it is toughened. Our glazing crew templates on site, processes off site and comes back to fit — frameless shower enclosures, balustrades, sliding walls, printed and sandblasted panels, mirrors and thermal-break aluminium — with fixings specified for where the house actually stands. Within sight of the sea that means seaside-class coating and stainless, not whatever arrived on the pallet.

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Scope of works

What we actually do.

Everything below happens inside our business — no subcontracted links in the chain.

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Shower enclosures
Frameless and framed enclosures in 8 and 10 mm toughened glass, walk-in panels and wet room screens, with hinges, channels and handles in brushed steel, matt black, chrome or PVD gold, and a factory-applied coating that keeps limescale off the glass.
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Balustrades & stair screens
Toughened laminated balustrades on stairs, landings, terraces and pool edges, in a base channel or on stainless point fixings, with or without a handrail — calculated for the load rather than copied from a photograph.
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Sliding, folding & pivot glass
Sliding and lift-and-slide doors, folding walls that open a reception onto a terrace, and oversized pivot entrance doors, in minimal-frame or thermal-break systems with tracks set into the floor build-up.
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Decorative glass & mirrors
Sandblasted, acid-etched, digitally printed, back-painted and antiqued glass for doors, screens and splashbacks, plus mirrored walls, bronze and grey mirror and mirror inset into wardrobe and joinery fronts.
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Aluminium systems & curtain walling
Thermal-break windows and doors, curtain walling and glazed screens, with seaside-class powder coating, drained and vented frames, and hardware chosen to survive a coastal winter of standing salt.

Specification

The numbers, before you ask.

Aluminium & Glass Works — technical specification
Shower glass	8–10 mm toughened; 10 mm on wide doors and walk-in panels
Balustrades	12–17.5 mm toughened laminated in base channel or stainless point fixings
Sliding systems	Thermal-break and minimal-frame; panels to roughly 3 m high
Coastal specification	Seaside-class powder coating with A4 stainless fixings near the sea
Safety glass	Toughened or laminated to all doors, low-level panels and wet areas

Selection

What the glazing crew makes

Frameless shower enclosureBathrooms
Glass to glass with the minimum of hardware, hinges matched to the brassware, and a threshold detail that keeps water in the tray rather than on the bedroom floor.
Wet room screenWalk-in showers
A single fixed panel with a stabiliser bar, which needs the floor falls right from the start because there is no door to hide a lazy gradient.
Glass balustradeStairs & terraces
Laminated glass in a base channel or on point fixings for stairs, landings, mezzanines and the sea-facing terraces of Marina, Almaza Bay and the New Alamein towers, where the view is the whole reason for the house.
Sliding & folding wallsReception to terrace
Large sliding and folding sets that open a room to the outside, with tracks planned into the floor build-up rather than added as a ramp afterwards.
Printed & sandblasted glassDoors & screens
Patterned, etched and digitally printed panels for internal doors, partitions and splashbacks — privacy without losing the light.
Mirrors & mirrored joineryDressing rooms
Full-height mirror walls, bronze and smoked mirror panels, and mirror inset into wardrobe fronts, cut and polished to fit the joinery rather than the other way round.

Gallery

Aluminium & Glass Works in place.

Every photograph on this page was taken on one of our sites during the work. Nothing here is a stock image or a render.

Frameless balustrade to a stairwell void in a double-height room

Raked stair balustrade taped and packed out during installation

Where it goes

Frameless shower enclosures
Wet room screens
Stair & landing balustrades
Terrace & pool balustrades
Sliding & folding glass walls
Decorative & printed glass doors
Mirrors & mirrored walls
Thermal-break windows & curtain walling

Questions we get asked

Aluminium & Glass Works — questions we get asked

Frameless or framed shower enclosure?

Frameless looks better and shows the tiling or stone behind it, and it costs more because the glass is thicker, the hardware is structural and the tolerances are unforgiving — the walls have to be plumb, and on a renovation they often are not. Framed enclosures are cheaper, seal more easily on an out-of-square opening and are simpler to adjust later. We measure your actual walls before recommending one.

Is a glass balustrade safe on a stair or a terrace?

When it is laminated, yes. Laminated glass holds together on the interlayer if a pane is broken, which is why we use it on balustrades rather than plain toughened, and the fixings — base channel or point fixings — are sized for a horizontal load, not chosen for looks. On a terrace we also specify stainless of the right grade, because the fixing corrodes long before the glass does.

Why does shower glass go cloudy after a year?

That is limescale from hard water etching into the surface, not the glass failing. A factory-applied protective coating slows it dramatically, and a squeegee after each use does more than any product sold for the purpose. What ruins shower glass and hardware fastest is acidic descaler left to sit on it — it will pit chrome and gold plating permanently.

What changes for glass and aluminium near the sea?

The metal, not the glass. Standard powder coating and standard fixings will bloom and stain within a couple of seasons on a seafront chalet, so we specify seaside-class coating, A4 stainless fittings, and frames that drain and vent properly so salt water is not sitting in the profile all winter. Then a fresh-water rinse a few times a year keeps it looking new.

How is this different from your windows and doors page?

Windows and doors covers complete window systems for the house — thermal break, uPVC, double glazing, the whole opening. This page is the glass trade around it: shower enclosures, balustrades, screens, decorative and printed glass, mirrors and the aluminium and curtain walling that carries them. On most projects the same drawings feed both, and you deal with one team.

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