Architectural salvage yards.

- Has anyone happened on a slab of laminated walk-on glass? Perhaps a stair tread or a small section of walkway? Size - could be acommodated.

I'd like to let some light through the floor of a potential small storage/kids area. Call it a shelf, crog loft or mezzanine. It can't ever get heavy use because it wouldn't even have standing headroom, but it will block a velux above. Hence nice to have a window with some walk-on glass.

I could phone round the country, but if anyone who haunts salvage yards recalls seeing such, it could be useful.

Thanks

Walk-on glass is best plain (most resilient) unlaminated, just thick, like 20mm. Laminated isn't strong, just safe when it breaks - same goes for toughened.

Several years ago I had to make an 'invisble' staircase for a show, we made it out of 25 and 50mm cast acrylic. To overcome the scratching problem we bonded 4mm clear float glass to it. Because of the low mu of float glass we then had to have a 50mm strip vapour blasted on each tread, which rather defeated the object of the whole design. Never really worked out why an architectural company was trying to sell clear staircases for open plan offices in the mid to late 80's, can anyone else shed some light on that?

OK. A few ideas.

Glass tables are possibly worth looking for though. Thickness doubtful maybee but I'll look. Thanks Squowse.

brig001: I didn't quite understand your comment, but thinking of uplighters, the place I work has floor fitted uplighters in some gangways, so I guess an old one of those with the light fitting removed would provide some (albeit very small) area of lighting. Expensive new so I wouldn't buy one just to take it apart.