Glass Pieces On The Floor

Glass floor design.

Glass pieces on the floor. Use an ordinary broom to sweep the pieces of glass into a pile then sweep the pile onto a dustpan before dumping the pieces into the trash can. Glass pieces will stick right into a soft slice of bread plus it has a nice wide surface area to cover a lot of ground. On hard floor surfaces sweep as much of the broken glass as you can find into a pile and carefully remove the largest pieces into a trash can. Sweep from the outside toward the center where the glass item first crashed and broke.

Anti slip resistance can be applied to the surface of a walk on structural glass floor for added safety especially to external glass floors. Use the thickest widest tape you can find to avoid cutting yourself packing and duct tape work really well. Cooling takes place much faster at the center of the glass than at the surface causing compressive stresses in the surface whereas contraction and tensile stresses are caused in the center. It may help to dust the area lightly with baking soda or baby powder to keep the smallest fragments from sticking to your floor or your broom s bristles.

The higher the stress the smaller pieces that the glass breaks into. In addition if any glass fragments remain in the vacuum hose they may fall back out when the vacuum is turned off. Avoid using a vacuum cleaner. Sucking up pieces of glass with a vacuum cleaner may seem tempting but it may ruin your machine.

This helps to contain the area instead of spreading it around making it easier to clean. The compressive stress gives toughened glass its increased strength. If the broken glass comes from a broken cfl or other mercury containing lightbulb then vacuuming might spread mercury containing powder or mercury vapor.