What are the different types of glass blocks?
glass blocks provide durable windows and walls for garages, entrances, shower corners and room dividers. When one adds lights, blocks become a dramatic focus. Glass blocks can also improve security when used in outdoor applications. The types of lights that are most commonly used with glass blocks are fiber optics, light emitting diodes (LED), neon tubes and strings of miniature lights designed for use on Christmas trees. Windows, showers and doors are popular places for installing glass blocks, but the lights of glass blocks most often appear in walls, dividing rooms and islands of bar or kitchen islands. Some types of glass block lights require each block to have an opening through which one inserts lights. The possibilities of the illuminated block that require cabling need a sufficiently large hole to adapt to the electrical connection and the second hole that allows to connect lights in the ROWS or blocks levels. This type of light closesEntaged in plastic or polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is found, which forms a rope. One can shape the rope according to the style and dimensions of the installation of the glass block and the light rope can monitor the natural path of the mortar between the blocks. Optical ropes also provide glass blocks from external, without drilling and optical fibers do not create heat.
LED lights are an energy efficient choice for glass block lights because they require less voltage than any other lighting option. These lights are often available, such as optical optics like light ropes. This provides more installation options than individual or string lights. They are suitable for backlight and can be improved with placed switches or variable cycles and a number of color options.
One can also connect the neon tubes to the front or rear of the glass blocks in many installations. Are even more flexible than ropes from OPtic fibers. Their life is also unlikely to have to take care of exchange and reinstallation.
Inserting a chain of 20 to 25 Christmas lights into one glass block is a simple way to use one lit glass block as a home accent. For this project you can buy pre -drilled blocks in hobby shops. These lights produce heat and may be a hazard of fire in this type of lighting installation if they are not only illuminated for hours.