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You’ve spent a fortune on the pool, the paving and the outlook. The last thing you want is a fence you have to look at.
That is what Todd Mehlhopt built Gurus of Glass around in 2015. Frameless glass, done properly, so the barrier all but disappears and the whole yard opens up as one space.
Clean lines, 12mm toughened glass, polished edges, nothing there to catch your eye.
We are a Gold Coast business and only a Gold Coast business. Todd quotes your job himself and the same team installs it, start to finish.
Two very different jobs in one suburb
Main Beach is unusual because the work splits cleanly in two.
On one side there are the waterfront and near beach houses, where the job is a pool fence and it looks like the rest of our residential work.
On the other there are the apartment buildings along Main Beach Parade and around the marina, where the work is balustrades, common area barriers and body corporate remediation. That is a different conversation with a different set of people and a different approval process.
We do both, and we would rather tell you which one you are up front than pretend they are the same job.
The salt here is serious
Main Beach is beachfront, and beachfront on this coast is about as hard as it gets on stainless.
The failures we get called to fix in this suburb are almost always the same thing. Someone specified standard fittings on an exposed elevation, and three or four years later the fixings are pitted and staining the concrete around them.
The fence never had to fail. It failed because the hardware was chosen from a price list rather than for the address. We go up a grade here and we tell you why it is on the quote
Access is the other Main Beach problem
Blocks here are tight, frontages are narrow and a lot of properties have no side access at all, which means glass panels come through the house.
It is entirely doable. It just needs planning, and it is worth knowing before a quote arrives that does not account for it. We look at access on the site visit and price it accordingly.
For apartment work, access is the whole job. Level by level staging, working around residents and around other trades, quoted against your program.
Balustrades more often than fences
More of our Main Beach work is balustrades than pool fencing, because of the mix of buildings here. Balcony balustrades facing the water, terrace barriers and internal stair glass in the larger homes
Typical jobs in Main Beach
Near beach houses. Pool fencing on the residential blocks back from Main Beach Parade, where salt is the dominant factor in the specification.
Marina side homes. Slightly gentler exposure than the ocean frontage, still genuinely coastal.
Apartment balcony balustrades. Repeat detailing across levels, quoted against staging and access rather than per metre alone.
Body corporate remediation. Replacing fittings that have failed on older buildings. This is a growing part of the work here and it is almost always the same cause.
If you manage a building here
Older Main Beach buildings are reaching the age where the original balustrade fittings are giving up. It rarely happens all at once, and it rarely happens evenly, because the seaward elevation goes first while the sheltered side still looks fine.
We quote remediation by elevation rather than by building average, which usually means less glass replaced than you were expecting and a longer life on what does get done.
Book a measure
Houses, apartments or body corporate. Tell us which and Todd will come out
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Frequently asked questions
Why do glass fences fail faster in Main Beach?
They do not, if the hardware is right. Beachfront salt attacks the fittings rather than the glass, so the grade of stainless is what decides how long the installation looks new. We specify up on exposed elevations here as standard.
Do you do body corporate and apartment work in Main Beach?
Yes. Balcony balustrades, common area barriers and remediation on older buildings where the original fittings have gone. Enquiries from body corporate managers and builders go straight to Todd.
What if my property has no side access?
Common here, and not a problem. Panels come through the house with the right protection and planning. We check access at the site visit so it is priced in rather than discovered on the day.