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Thanks John, we will probably put a timber cover over the angled steel to hide it. 🤙🏽

Hello again, does this look more like it? I’ve looked at Foamglas Perinsul HL, which according to their site says it can withstand the load of a 3 story house on top of it. Hopefully fine for a large sheet of glass.

Thanks again John

Thanks John and Russell for your replies. I will have a look and see what we can do. Cheers.

JohnMo, thanks for the reply. Any chance you could scribble a sketch of what you mean? I'm not a builder so having a bit of a struggle with the windows. I'm happy enough to do all the wood working and concrete, but thermal bridging and all that is new to me. "Your area at the bottom of the window is a big cold bridge. You need to look at a continuous insulation line. So at the bottom I would add a layer of Compacfoam and bring in the meet the floor upstand (would make this at least 50mm thick). This will have enough strength to take the loads and remove the cold bridge. Position in the wall depth will depend on how your walls are insulated the window needs to straddle the insulation."

I should have said thaat the windows aren't actually fixed to the green heart itself. The bottom will be fixed to concrete and the top will be fixed to steel which will then be fixed to softwood timber.

Thanks JohnMo, we are using greenheart timber as a frame and not oak. It's been reclaimed off a pier. Greenheart has 1% movement compared to steel with 10% and is also stronger than steel. Steel would probably be easier to work with though as green heart is hard on tools and saws.

Hello all, We are going to build a post and beam style house and want to use frameless double glazed glass panels on the front of the house to have floor to ceiling views. We helped someone do this on their house already, but now things have changed in building control so we can't do exactly as they have done. They had a run of angled steel top and bottom bolted to the house frame and the glass was bonded straight onto that with no thermal break. We need something as a thermal break though. Would it work to have something like this around the glass and then then bonded to the steel? Or how thick a material would we need? https://www.ironmongerydirect.co.uk/product/sealmaster-therm-a-flex-flexible-intumescent-strip-10-x-2-x-2100mm-black-pack-of-10-537401?vat=1&GSP=true&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw65-zBhBkEiwAjrqRMNV-6W1xeeglve9hKNmcQYOFdTB6G-Vp69SfUE7zSbb3BVqoD7eDNxoCGN0QAvD_BwE This is the sort of idea at the moment.