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Dry Glaze vs. Wet Glaze Time Comparison
| Installation Time Comparison for 20 Feet of Shoe Moulding |
| Using Expansion Cement |
Using GlassWedge™ Systems |
| Sealing the shoe moulding to eliminate leaks -- for level rails, expect more time on stair rails -- about 1 minute/foot |
20 minutes |
Not Required |
0 minutes |
| Installation of blocking for five 4 foot lites of glass |
10 minutes |
Pre-blocked |
0 minutes |
| Setting glass into the shoe will require two workers and take 5 minutes per lite per worker |
50 minutes |
Setting glass into the shoe will require two workers and take 5 minutes per lite per worker |
50 minutes |
| Plumbing the glass will require wood wedges on both faces -- 10 minutes per lite. |
50 minutes |
Self centering |
0 minutes |
| Setting the glass with expansion cement: This will have to be done in two or three pours since the wedges need to be removed after the first pour locks the glass -- expect a very efficient two man crew to take around 20 minutes for each pour plus clean up. In reality, this will take much longer. |
120 minutes |
Setting the glass by hammering the wedges into place -- 1 minute for each of the 15 wedges. |
15 minutes |
| Total |
250 minutes |
Total |
65 minutes |
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Labor Savings |
74% |
| This example does not consider the labor required for handling or storing materials; to clean, or police the area; layout; or for aligning panels since these and other items should be similar for both systems. The labor saving quoted would be for the described operations. Savings on sloped areas and stairs would be greater, due to the problems with Porok and gravity. |
| Reglazing |
| Should a lite of glass need to be replaced, the expansion cement would need to be chiseled out. |
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The glass wedge comes out simply with the removal tool. A new lite can immediately be inserted. |
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