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Glass Balustrade — Spigots, Channel & Standoff Systems

A see-through edge for a balcony, deck or stair — frameless glass, engineered to meet the standards, with the calculator keeping your build inside the engineering parameters.

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AS1926 Pool Fence Compliant

  • 1200mm minimum barrier height
  • Maximum 100mm gaps at the bottom
  • Self-closing, self-latching gates

See straight through it: engineered, not hoped

Glass balustrade is what you reach for when you don't want to lose the view — a deck, a balcony, a stair, a pool edge, finished in clear toughened panels instead of pickets or a wall. In a frameless system the glass is the structure: no posts carrying the load, the panel and its fixings are the barrier. That's the clean look — and normally the part that scares people off doing it themselves, because structural glass has to be engineered.

The difference here: that engineering's already done. Every glass balustrade system we sell is engineered and tested to meet the National Construction Code and AS 1288 — provided it's installed within the engineering parameters. We don't range configurations outside that envelope, and the calculator won't build one. So what you order is a configuration engineered to pass, not a generic kit you bolt up and hope about.

How the glass gets held up

Three fixing methods, all sharing the same idea — the glass carries the load — differing in how it's fixed and how much hardware shows.

Spigots. Toughened panels clamp into a pair of spigots at the base. The most common frameless balustrade, the cheapest, the most DIY-friendly — Madrid spigots (the only balustrade-rated spigot in the range), 12mm or 15mm glass.

Standoffs. Stainless fittings mount to a wall, slab edge or fascia and hold the glass proud of the surface — a floating, architectural look. 15mm glass; the number of standoffs per panel follows the panel width. Above spigots on price.

Channel. The glass seats into a continuous base channel — the most seamless look, the least visible hardware, the dearer end. 12mm, 15mm, or a laminated 17.52mm for the tallest, highest-load runs.

There's also a semi-frameless option, Australis, where slim posts and a top rail carry the load and the glass is infill — the cheapest way into a glass look. It's a post-launch addition; get in touch if it's what you're after.

Spigots, standoffs or channel?

SpigotsStandoffsChannel
Glass12mm or 15mm15mm12 / 15 / 17.52mm
LookSpigots at the baseFloating off the faceSeamless, hidden
Where it sitsCheapestMidDearest

The compliance bit, straight

Balustrade doesn't answer to the pool standard — it answers to the NCC, AS 1170 (the loads it has to take) and AS 1288 (glass in buildings). The parts that touch your order:

  • It's an engineered system. Engineered and tested to meet the NCC and AS 1288 when installed within the parameters — not a generic kit. It isn't a site-specific certificate signed off for your address (see below).
  • The calculator keeps you inside the envelope. The engineering covers a defined range — glass build, panel widths, fixing counts, heights, wind and terrain. The calculator's built to it and won't spec outside it.
  • Height. 1000mm minimum from the finished floor.
  • Glass follows the fall. Up to a 5m fall, toughened glass; above 5m, a laminated build. The calculator picks the right one.
  • Top rail. Once the drop below is over a metre, a top rail is part of the system — included in your plan.
  • Openings. Nothing that passes a 125mm sphere.
  • Whose sign-off? Final sign-off for your property rests with your building surveyor or certifier. We supply a system engineered to the standards and a calculator that keeps your build inside the parameters — install within those and you've installed a compliant system.

We go through the standards in plain English in Balustrade Compliance in Australia.

Glass or aluminium?

Not a simple expensive-vs-cheap split, the two ranges overlap on price, and the dearest metal sits above the cheaper glass. The real question is whether you want the glass to carry the load (the view) or a frame to. We lay it all out in Glass Balustrade vs Aluminium.

Build your parts list

Tell the calculator your runs, fixing method and heights and it returns the panels, fixings and handrail, inside the engineered envelope, priced. Or ask Joe first.

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Spigots 15mm

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Standoff 15mm

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Channel 12mm

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Channel 15mm

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Channel 17.52 HD

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