Secure Clip Glazing Systems (Dry Glazing Systems)

[MortarThePoint]

I'm making a custom door with sidelights and want to use a secure clip glazing system to hold the glazing panels in place. The panels are 44mm thick triple glazed ones, so that's a bit unusual for the clip systems I think. I have seen two systems online:

• GT Securi-Clip [link] - apparently PAS 24
• Reddiseals Easy-Clip [link] - now discontinued unfortunately

Has anyone any experience with these?

 

They seem to top out at 28mm glazing thickness, but I see no reason I couldn't use a 28mm one offset the correct amount as long as I supported the glazing unit on suitably wide packers.

[MortarThePoint]

@craig Have you come across these clips before? Any thoughts?

[craig]

Have you considered just using glazing beads and hidden fixings though the bead and finish with glazing tape and silicone bead around the glass? The beads are generally what hold the glass in please.

 

 

[MortarThePoint]

7 hours ago, craig said:

Have you considered just using glazing beads and hidden fixings though the bead and finish with glazing tape and silicone bead around the glass? The beads are generally what hold the glass in please.

 

Thanks Craig. A difficulty I have is that the frame I am using is designed around a 44mm thick door and consequently the recesses are 47mm deep. There is no room to fit a bead in with a triple glazing unit. What I was thinking of doing was adding a timber piece (dark brown ) to the back of the frame that extends over the edge of the glazing panel and effectively forms the bead. Unlike pins in a normal bead scenario which are loaded perpendicular to their length, any fixings in that additional piece would be loaded along their length, so pins would pull out. I could use screws, but they would end up visible which I don't want (oak finish). The clips seem like a good solution since the bead ends up just being cosmetic as I understand it.

 

I realise I could extend the frame by gluing timber on which is no wider that the frame already is and then use a conventional timber bead, but that would mean I would have to extend the frame more. I expect a suitable bead would be at least 15mm whereas I can have a much thinner back piece (dark brown) if it's only cosmetic and clips are doing the work of holding the panel. It's shown below as 12mm, but could go thinner.