Saftety/tempered glass

[RobertSmith]

Does anyone have any idea when safety/tempered glass entered the building codes? I'm trying to figure out if it was required for a 1968 home.

thanks!

Rob

[Jerry Peck]

Does anyone have any idea when safety/tempered glass entered the building codes? I'm trying to figure out if it was required for a 1968 home.

thanks!

Rob

Robert,

Do a search on that, we had that question asked recently and came up with some relatively applicable answers.

By the way, it does not really matter in the end when it was "required" as the unsafe aspects of it existed long before it was considered and then inserted into the code.

'Safety' does not read codes to know when to behave and when to create a problem.

[John Arnold]

http://www.inspectionnews.net/home_inspection/exterior-systems-home-inspection-commercial-inspection/13706-tempered-glass-replacement-windows.html

[Chuck Lambert]

As JP says safety has no age. My first house was built in 1959 and my current house built 1962 both have the original glass sliders that have safety glass.

Chuck

[EmmanuelScanlan]

Does anyone have any idea when safety/tempered glass entered the building codes? I'm trying to figure out if it was required for a 1968 home.

thanks!

Rob

When in doubt read the TREC SOP:

(m) Exterior and interior glazing. The
inspector shall:
(2) report as Deficient:
(C) the absence of safety glass in
hazardous locations.

[Philippe Heller]

The author of CodeCheck series wrote a good article.


http://www.codecheck.com/cc/images/SafetyGlazingArticle07.pdf (http://www.codecheck.com/cc/images/SafetyGlazingArticle07.pdf)

Suggestions: We avoid stating a specific date as to when something began to be "required". This implies that you are citing building codes.

We do say something like "this house was built prior to the requirement for GFCI installation...Recommend upgrade for safety" but we avoid stating exactly when they were required.