Hanging house in the Southwest Palatinate - Our House Construction 2.0

I always imagine that children hit the nasty glass corner with their heads or that I bump into it with my body.

Does a glass like that actually hold up if a toddler crashes full force into it with a Bobby Car?

Does such a glass actually hold up if a toddler crashes full force into it with a Bobby car?

Of course, it is safety glass.

I worry less about the safety of the kids. Our upstairs hallway is not an adventure playground and never has been. We have them under control that far. It also worked in the first house, where the railing was a masonry wall, and there was neither foam nor injuries. The kids are not blind either. :) My concerns are more about how clean they can be kept; I think handprints are rather unavoidable.

Otherwise, the safety glass, well, it is of course not indestructible, but if a pane should break, it would not shatter. Our builder said that a lot would have to happen for these glasses to break. They are ground completely safe so you can’t cut yourself, and they also cannot splinter. Such panes are also often found in shopping centers. I could imagine they are exposed to completely different stresses there than in our single-family house.

Exactly right, .

We had glass on more than 3 floors at the staircase, those were smaller panes with posts in between, and we had glass balustrades in front of floor-to-ceiling windows on the upper and top floors. Nobody got hurt there. That’s thick safety glass, it wouldn’t even shatter. The edges were rounded in our case, but you can decide how you want that in the end. The glass coffee table in the living room was definitely more dangerous as far as the edges were concerned.
It also doesn’t necessarily have to be that the glass element stays completely “bare.” You can put a strip on it, which could, for example, be made of wood instead of stainless steel like in the photo.

However, the fingerprints from little sticky hands are really unavoidable. If that annoys you or triggers a constant cleaning reflex, glass is probably not for you. But maybe the light incidence is forgiving and you don’t notice it that much ;)…

I was rather thinking whether the glass, which is only fixed at the bottom in the track and only at the back end on the wall (as in the photo a few pages earlier), might then break out as a whole. But there is presumably a DIN standard or something like for the gaps in the stair railing, so that doesn't happen :)

To be honest, I felt something was missing with "only glass." A trim on top, like with @Cotruttrice, I like that better. Or something completely different ;) But that's just a personal feeling