The glass floor is one of the most eye-catching installations in modern architecture that grabs people’s attention fast. Being a modern trend, it is a perfect solution for luxury homes, offices, and commercial spaces. All forward-thinking designers recommend this to clients with good budgets and particular aesthetics sense.
If you look at the advantages side, there are 3 key advantages that you can get from the glass flooring system.
- Enhanced beauty of the facility
Whether you implement it at your residential space or some corporate facility, glass floors add in the beauty of your site. They offer a breath-taking view to the visitors and optimize the prospects of engagement, sale, and investment.
- Greater illumination
Architects and interior designers always aspire to have an appropriate percentage of sunlight into the facility’s interior. This is not only health-friendly but also very vital from the maintenance and cost-saving perspectives. That’s why almost all modern construction projects are using glass floors and roofs to allow more natural light to penetrate deeper into the areas where light wouldn’t reach by other means. This not only makes the facility health-friendly but also make it more beautiful and lit.
- Ease of cleanliness and maintenance
You can maintain a glass floor in a very hassle-free and convenient manner. Even if installed at a busy area, glass doors are very easy to maintain and clean – as a slight effort can bring back the sparkle and glamour.
However, despite all advantages and beautifications, some people do not seem to be comfortable with them, citing reliability and safety issues. If you are amongst those, we are sharing some key ideas to help you stay informed about the key considerations before making any call to install a structural glass flooring system.
Here are 5 things that you should keep in sight while opting for glass floors at your facility. Please note that this article is merely for the sake of information and general advice. If you have some specific questions or need, please connect with our team to have professional advice as per your project’s goals, probable usage, and available resources.
- Determine the nature of the project
The most important thing to assess is your need and nature of the projects. The type of flooring and all other interior design elements will vary as per your business needs and probable usage pattern. At times, people make the need assessment wrong, which dearly costs them in the long-term. Therefore, you should assess in advance what are your future plans for the building, so that you could talk to a professional about a particular solution.
- Seek professional advice
We all love to hear favorable voices in our surrounding, and like the people who support us in any decision-making process. However, one must not forget that in professional and business engagement, we must bear the bitter truths and unfavorable words of advice as well. That is why, you are strongly recommended to opt for professional advice by experts who have spent their lives into the domain – and share your project details.
Here again, your homework will be very important as it will allow you to seek honest and the best advice from the professionals.
- Assess your budget
No matter how rich you are, budget is always an important issue in any projects. You should assess your available budget for the project as there are solutions that may require flexible budget and you may not be in a position to afford them. We do not mean that you set up a complete budgetary plan in advance – just that when you reach out to professionals for any advice, there should be some ballpark figure. For a corporate office, the scope of usage is wider and may require flexible budget, while luxury homes may not require much of it.
- Verify your vendor’s expertise
Picking the right vendor is probably the single most important decision you will make. When consulting a glass floor vendor, there are a few things that you should keep in mind. You should check out their industry experience as how much time they have spent in the industry. In addition to this, the team members’ skills-set and registration status should also be checked as they can also help identify the real vs fake service provider.
At TG Glass Works, we would like to inform we are a registered glass floor system providing company and has been helping our clients across a wide area for years. Our deepest expertise lies in delivering customized glass solutions to the clients as per their needs, business nature, general aesthetics, and functionality requirements.
- Assess your options
The last but not the least important thing is to do an assessment of your all available options in light with the need, budget, usage requirements, and aesthetics. The more options you have, the better decision you should be able to make. However, avoid putting too many options as they may be counter-productive for the exercise.
You can check with vendors about pricing, functionalities, and added advantages of various flooring options and then can compare the options. The comparison should be done in the terms of cost, business advantages, revenue, future profile of business, and other benefits. Like, glass floor can help reduce the electricity bill by passing on natural light into the other floor, which may not be possible in concrete flooring. In addition, look at your instant vs near future needs and make a call in the light of advice by the expertise.
Conclusion
If you have the right information and data at hand, it becomes very easy to make the right choice. However, if you are looking for a professional advice and perfectly customized flooring solutions, get in touch with our team at TG Glass Works. We are fully committed to helping our clients with the solution of their choice as per individual needs and budgets. You can get in touch with us for a wide range of glass works including glass flooring system, and we shall be happy to provide the best of the advice and solutions we have.