Circle Redmont’s Solar White glass block and metal panel system was featured on a home improvement episode of the syndicated show, Bob Vila. In the episode, Bob Vila integrates Solar White flooring into an older New England Victorian home remodeling project. For the Victorian Makeover Project project, SolarWhite Panels™ were designed into the master bed/bath area providing a custom glass accent flooring area while recycling the natural daylight into the lower level. Additional SolarWhite Panels™ were installed in the second and first floors perpendicular to each other, brightening the interior halls and bringing natural light into the basement. The video as well as an article can be viewed here.

Excerpts from the script are below:

BV: “Mary Lou pace is here from Circle Redmont which is the company that manufactures the glass block floors that we’re putting in here now. This is not a product I’ve ever used before in the kind of a New England residential remodeling projects. And I think is really neat because architecturally it really brings that feeling of bringing the new into the old problem. But, I’d be afraid of breaking this.”

CR: “You know we don’t have to be afraid of breaking this. It actually is a extruded aluminum framework and it’s completely structural. What this product is incorporating is actually hollow glass block.”

BV: “If you drop something on the glass blocks, it won’t shatter?”

CR: “No. In residential applications this product is perfect. Typically flooring is to maybe forty pounds per square or twenty pounds per square but this glass is calced at something much higher sixty pounds.”

BV: “That is a tempered glass block as well?”

CR: “No actually the hollow glass blocks are actually a new class of annealed glass – very strong, double sided, double faced.”

BV: “So your company creates these monolithic panels and it’s always custom right depending on what the architect specified. We’ve got three of them here. Well two of them are going in this area then one right here. In the landing on the second floor and then another one in the landing on the third floor and it works with a skylight that we have a there’s so that we should theoretically get daylight all the way down to here.”

BV: “Let’s flip the panel up. This side is frosted.”

CR: “Yes. What we do is we actually do a sandblasted finish and the reason why we do that because for foot resistance.”

BV: “Oh beautiful, let’s see it from the second floor. Boy, that really looks beautiful out here. The unusual balcony well I can step on it. Circle Redmont makes these floor systems.”

This entry was posted on Friday, June 19th, 2009 at 2:31 pm and is filed under news releases.