Frosted toughened glass cut to your millimetres, in 8, 10, 12 and 15mm. The same toughened panel as the clear equivalent, sandblasted on one face, so it behaves identically in structural terms and fixes in exactly the same way. Polished edges, 5mm radius corners, toughened to BS EN 12150.
More than people expect at a distance, and a good deal less than people expect up close. It is worth understanding before you choose it, because it decides whether frosted is the right answer for your job at all.
Try it with your hand. Press your hand flat against a piece of frosted glass and you see it clearly, almost as though the frosting were not there. Lift it 50mm off the glass and it becomes much harder to make out. Move it further back again and it reduces to a shape.
Frosted works by distance, not by contact. With air behind it, which covers a shower screen, a bathroom window or a privacy screen between two gardens, it passes light and holds back detail, and that is exactly what it is for. Sat directly against a surface it is close to transparent, so do not choose frosted to hide something it is going to be resting on. Where you need a genuinely opaque panel, backpainted glass is the answer.
It is the mistake we see most often on this range. On a screen with air behind it, frosted passes light but not detail, which is exactly right for a shower screen, a bathroom, or the boundary between two properties.
It is often too far for a balcony. People ask for frosted and then realise they have blanked out the view they built the balcony for. If you want some cover rather than full obscuring, tinted glass sits between clear and frosted: you get shapes and movement rather than detail.
A common answer on a balcony is to mix them: frosted on the neighbouring side where privacy matters, clear on the side you actually look out of. Tell us which panels are which and we will cut them together.
The same rule as clear glass, because it is the same glass. It follows how the panel is held, not how big it is.
Frosted glass is sandblasted on one side, so say which face you want frosted when you send your sizes. On a balustrade it normally goes on the inside, where it is protected from the weather and easier to keep clean. On a shower screen it goes on the dry side.
Once glass is toughened it cannot be cut, drilled or edged. Every hole, notch and polished edge happens before the furnace, so a panel 5mm too big is scrap rather than an adjustment. Measure the aperture in three places, work to the smallest, and allow a sensible gap for the clamps or channel.
Pick the width band and the height band your panel falls into, then send us your exact millimetres and we confirm them before cutting. Smallest band 500 x 500mm, largest size online 2000 x 1100mm, anything beyond quoted individually. Raking panels for staircases are an option on every listing: send the two vertical heights and the length along the pitch and we will draw it for you.
Polished edges and a proper 5mm radius corner on all four corners as standard. Most glass goes out on a pallet, so have two people and a clean flat area ready, and check it over before you sign.
This is made to order in our own Sheffield workshop, so it can just as easily be made to your dimensions instead. Send a photo and rough sizes and we will price it.
