Well, I made a lucky find in the freebies on craigslist - a 4' X 8' slab of finished glass, 3/4" thick. This is a very nice piece, double bullnose edge, very impressive. Weighs 300lbs easily, maybe more.
Hauling it was a huge pain, and deciding what to do with that slab of glass was even tougher.
We decided to build legs for it out of concrete and glass tile blocks.
The build was something like this (from the floor up):
16"X16" cement slab
12"X12" cement slab
4 glass corner tiles
12"X12" cement slab
16"X16" cement slab
Now, everything was mortared together, and I drilled through all the slabs so that I could have a 1/2" piece of rebar running the full length of the leg. Also, all the filler cement in the center was mixed with fibers for increased strength. Once done, I used thin set mortar (white) as a stucco-esque finish, which I made spikey. I liked the combination of the glass (from both the table and the blocks, smooth, fragile, sleek) contrasted with the rough, sharp, industrial spikey stucco look.
These are fully assembled and have cured almost a week.
I will be placing the table on them by this weekend hopefully, to do that I plan to put down mortar on the top of each leg, then place a 16"X16" ceramic tile, then place some clear rubber sheeting, then the table. I figure that if we place the table while the mortar from the marble tile on top is still wet, the table will make it cure in the most balanced way.
I'll post back once we actually place the table, but again that should be real soon, hopefully over the weekend (easiest time to round up a few guys who can move that piece of glass from the garage to the living room :laughing:
Hauling it was a huge pain, and deciding what to do with that slab of glass was even tougher.
We decided to build legs for it out of concrete and glass tile blocks.
The build was something like this (from the floor up):
16"X16" cement slab
12"X12" cement slab
4 glass corner tiles
12"X12" cement slab
16"X16" cement slab
Now, everything was mortared together, and I drilled through all the slabs so that I could have a 1/2" piece of rebar running the full length of the leg. Also, all the filler cement in the center was mixed with fibers for increased strength. Once done, I used thin set mortar (white) as a stucco-esque finish, which I made spikey. I liked the combination of the glass (from both the table and the blocks, smooth, fragile, sleek) contrasted with the rough, sharp, industrial spikey stucco look.
These are fully assembled and have cured almost a week.
I will be placing the table on them by this weekend hopefully, to do that I plan to put down mortar on the top of each leg, then place a 16"X16" ceramic tile, then place some clear rubber sheeting, then the table. I figure that if we place the table while the mortar from the marble tile on top is still wet, the table will make it cure in the most balanced way.
I'll post back once we actually place the table, but again that should be real soon, hopefully over the weekend (easiest time to round up a few guys who can move that piece of glass from the garage to the living room :laughing: