Some Advantages Of The Invisible Grille

By Chee Eu-Jin


Urban areas and residential buildings have the great challenge of keeping tall buildings safe for its residents. Year after year many incidents occur wherein children fall over unprotected balconies. Worse still is that robbers and thieves can easily climb onto balconies and break in. To prevent this from happening many have opted to put standard grilles or Invisible Grille.

Standard grilles are basically fat pieces of metal or metal tubes, made of either pure steel or iron, or mostly aluminum. In effect, putting these types of grilles are nothing short of the same ones that they put on prison windows and doors. Thus putting these on our balcony not only makes your home look like a prison, but it makes it feel like one too when you look out of those bars.

Therefore the traditional setup is not at all aesthetically pleasing, either to the occupant or the building designer or architect. Many tenement and apartment buildings in Asia, particularly Hong Kong and Singapore, look like matchbox prisons due to the effect given by these traditional security bar grilles. However, there is an option where it does not have to be like this, in which beauty is sacrificed for the sake of safety.

This option comes with the invention of Invisible Grille. It provides both an aesthetic and practical safety element based on very simple concepts and design. On top of this its ease of use and installation makes it a practical and attractive choice.

These invisible grilles are basically window frames that are constructed in a modular frame. The frames are strung with high tension cables made of steel that have a nylon membrane. The membrane protects against abrasion and cuts. Gutted in a vertical position, these high tension and very thin cables are spaced just wide enough to prevent entry or from someone falling out. However, they are also spaced far enough from each other so that they are basically almost invisible or hard to see.

The invisible effect it gives basically is good for those who do not want the look of unsightly bars from the outside, and an obstructed jail view from the inside. Apart from this, it gives great ventilation like regular bar windows with a corresponding beautifying effect to boot.

The high tension wires that act as grilles are very robust also. Each cable can withstand pressures or forces up to 160 plus kilos, thus no chance of small children breaking them. The nylon membrane mesh also prevents injury from cuts or abrasions and cannot just be cut with ordinary tools or devices.

A popular option that can be installed with the Invisible Grille is its ability to integrate with your current security system, so that breaches from without or within sounds off an alarm. But the great thing is that it can be easily installed or dismantled, especially if you are moving to a new location. Many dealers do sell this grille but payment options may vary from package prices to per square feet billings. In either case, it is a new thing worth trying out.




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