Glass and Glazing
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When to use: Architectural vision glass and glazing for storefronts, curtain walls, windows, exterior and interior doors, sidelights, transoms, borrowed lites, partitions, and other building glazing infill. Covers annealed, heat-strengthened, and fully tempered flat glass; laminated glass; coated (low-emissivity and solar-control) glass; insulating glass units (IGUs) including double and triple makeups; spandrel and ceramic-frit glass; safety glazing in hazardous locations per the International Building Code; glass strength and thickness determination under wind and snow load per ASTM E1300; thermal stress and edge-condition selection of annealed versus heat-strengthened versus fully tempered glass; nickel-sulfide heat-soak treatment for tempered glass; low-iron glass; warm-edge spacers and inert-gas fill; structural silicone and dry-gasket glazing methods; setting blocks, edge clearances, and glazing accessories; and field installation, testing, cleaning, and warranty of the glass and glazing materials.
− Not intended for: The aluminum, steel, or wood framing systems that receive the glass (see [[sync/aluminum-entrances-and-storefronts]] for storefront and entrance framing, [[sync/glazed-curtain-walls]] for curtain wall framing, and [[sync/doors-frames-and-hardware]] for door leaves, frames, and hardware); glass that is part of an operable window or door assembly rated as a complete fenestration product under the North American Fenestration Standard (the glazing requirements there are governed by the framing standard that delivers the rated product); glass block and structural glass unit masonry; mirrors furnished as part of toilet accessories (see [[sync/toilet-accessories]]); fire-rated and fire-protective glazing assemblies, which require listed assemblies and are governed by fire-resistance requirements beyond this standard; security, ballistic, blast-resistant, and detention glazing requiring project-specific engineered designs; structural point-supported glass fittings and glass fins; sloped overhead and skylight glazing where additional fallout and snow-load provisions apply; and overhead coiling doors and grilles (see [[sync/overhead-coiling-doors]]).
+ Not intended for: The aluminum, steel, or wood framing systems that receive the glass (see [[sync/aluminum-entrances-and-storefronts]] for storefront and entrance framing, [[sync/glazed-curtain-walls]] for curtain wall framing, and [[sync/doors-frames-and-hardware]] for door leaves, frames, and hardware); glass that is part of an operable window or door assembly rated as a complete fenestration product under the North American Fenestration Standard (the glazing requirements there are governed by the framing standard that delivers the rated product); glass block and structural glass unit masonry; mirrors furnished as part of toilet accessories (see [[sync/toilet-accessories]]); fire-rated and fire-protective glazing assemblies, which require listed assemblies and are governed by fire-resistance requirements beyond this standard; security, ballistic, blast-resistant, and detention glazing requiring project-specific engineered designs; structural point-supported glass fittings and glass fins; sloped overhead and skylight glazing where additional fallout and snow-load provisions apply; and overhead coiling doors and grilles (see [[sync/overhead-coiling-doors]] and [[sync/coiling-grilles]]).
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## Blanket exclusions for spontaneous breakage of tempered glass shall not be accepted where heat-soak treatment was required and performed; the warranty shall cover spontaneous breakage of heat-soaked tempered glass attributable to nickel-sulfide inclusions for the warranted term.