Glass Express

For many of us it has been a long time since we were in the same room together. On Friday 29 April AGWA held an information forum for our Tasmanian members at the Bellerive Yacht Club Hobart. It was a great turn out, thanks to everyone who came along.

Bradley Hoppo joined the AGWA Master Glazier program in 2017 and is employed with Seaton Glass at Royal Park, SA. The project Brad has chosen to highlight is the conversion of a church to a residence in North Adelaide. He explains the project as follows: The team and I at Seaton Glass, worked on a conversion of a church to a residence in North Adelaide. The project involved the builder, the owner and of course Seaton Glass. It was completed in mid-2021. Templates were required to be made for all the windows as they varied slightly. The challenges were finding a right off-theshelf bevel that would suit the windows. This meant adjusting the border to suit the opening. Next, we needed to cut down bevels and do the cut edges with a new bevel. We did this instead of customising all the diamonds, as we needed to keep the price down. We needed a scaffold each time we made the templates and then to check and install them. Our small-shaped bevelling machine was set up to do the new cuts which were then polished. The diamonds had to line up from the bottom window to the panel above, so drawing and set up did take a while. There were 11 windows in total.

We worked with the customer to create a design that would work, and they gave us an idea of what they wanted. They were very pleased with the outcome, as we were. It was a lot of work, but the end result was worth all the challenges. If you would like to find out more about aspects of this project, please contact Brad Hoppo at Seaton Glass.