Meeting room frosting and privacy film for North Shore offices
Frosted film on glass meeting rooms, consulting rooms and doors, at the height your room needs. For offices and practices in Chatswood, St Leonards, North Sydney and along the Pacific Highway to Hornsby.
We set the band in the room itself, line the door up with the wall, and agree the install time with you and your building manager before anything is booked. For heat and glare on the outside windows, see office window tinting.
Privacy band: seated and standing eye height behind the frost, daylight above and below it.
Frost patterns and the rooms they suit
Frosted film turns clear glass into a soft white that lets light through and blurs whatever is behind it. The choice is how much of the wall to frost, and that depends on who uses the room and what the glass looks onto.
A floor rarely wants one pattern everywhere. The boardroom might take a band, the HR room full frost and reception its markings only, all on one schedule.
| Privacy band | Meeting rooms where people sit and stand. Light comes in over and under the band, and anyone passing can see the room is in use. |
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| Frost with a clear top | Consulting, interview and treatment rooms. Private from the floor up, with clear glass above head height for borrowed light. |
| Full frost | Rooms where nothing on the table or screen should be read from outside. The room and the corridor beside it both lose some light. |
| Clear, with markings | Rooms meant to look open. The glass stays clear, with dots or a thin line so people see it. Glass door markings and shopfront film |
| Cut lettering or a pattern | Your name, a logo or stripes cut out of the band or the full frost. Bring the artwork to the measure. |
| Opaque film | A room that must be blind, not just blurred. Heavier than frost, and less light gets through. Ask about it on the measure. |
Setting the band height
A band is there to hide eyes, faces and screens, not whole bodies. The height that does that depends on the room. Set it from the corridor, standing, and it can sit too high for the people at the table, who then show clearly underneath it.
So the height is set inside the room, from a chair and standing up. The line is marked on the glass and you check it from both sides before any film is cut.
The band then has to run at that one height across every panel and the door. On a glass wall with a door in it, that line is what people notice first.
What we check in the room
- Where people sit. The chair and table heights in this room, not a standard figure.
- Where people stand. The corridor side and the end of the room where someone presents.
- The door. Its glass starts and stops in different places to the wall, so the band is measured to match.
- The joins. Film is cut to each panel so the band meets at every join without a gap or a step.
- The other side. A corridor, reception, a lift lobby or the street each changes how much the room needs.
What goes on the schedule for an office
Every piece of glass gets its own line, and the building gets one too. The quote is written from the schedule, room by room, so you can see what each part of the job covers.
Measured and written down
- Every panel, door and sidelight, with its size
- The glass: toughened, laminated or double-glazed for sound
- The band height, as set in the room
- Handles, closers, locks and signs the film is cut around
- Old film or adhesive to come off first
- The building's rules: lifts, loading dock, sign-in, working hours
Example schedule
- W1Meeting room 1, glass wall, panels 1 to 3: Privacy band
- W2Meeting room 1, door: Privacy band
Band lined up with the wall. Cut around the pull handle.
- W3HR room, glass wall and door: Full frost
- W4Consulting room, sidelight: Frost with a clear top
Old film on this pane comes off first.
- BBuilding: goods lift booked, contractor sign-in
Install time agreed with you and the building manager before it is booked.
Office towers and the building manager's rules
Office glass on the North Shore is mostly in the towers around Chatswood, St Leonards and North Sydney, with practices and smaller offices along the Pacific Highway up to Hornsby. In a tower, the building decides when and how contractors work, so its rules go on the schedule beside the glass.
Lift and loading dock
Film, tools and offcuts travel in the goods lift. Many buildings want it booked ahead, and some only allow it at set times.
Contractor sign-in
Some buildings ask for an induction or paperwork before work starts. Tell us what yours asks for, so it is on the schedule from the first visit.
The lease
Film on glass inside your tenancy is usually a question for your lease. Glass on the street front or a shared corridor may be the building's call.
The install time
Agreed with you, and with the building where it has a say, before the job is booked. We do not name a time until both have said yes.
Measure, cut, fit for a meeting room
A room is out of use while its glass is being filmed, so the floor is done room by room. The glass should be left uncleaned for a while afterwards, and we tell you how long for the film used.
Measure
Every panel, door and sidelight on the floor, the band height checked sitting and standing, and the building's rules written down.
Cut
Film cut to each panel, so the band meets at the joins and crosses the door at the same height as the wall.
Fit
One room at a time, at the time agreed, so the rest of the office keeps its meetings. Each edge is trimmed to the frame.
Frosting mistakes in a meeting room
A band set standing up
Everyone at the table shows clearly underneath it, and the table is where the meeting happens.
A step at the door
The door's band sits higher or lower than the wall beside it. From the corridor, it is all anyone sees.
Mirror film for privacy
Reflective film on a street window hides the office by day. After dark, with the lights on, the street can see straight in.
Full frost on every room
An inside corridor that took its light through the meeting rooms goes dim. A band or a clear top would have kept it.
Questions about meeting room frosting
Can anyone see through frosted film?
Not clearly. Frost turns the room into light and outlines, so you can tell someone is in there without seeing who or what is on the screen. Something pressed flat against the glass shows more. If a room must be fully blind, ask about opaque film on the measure.
Can the frost carry our name or logo?
Yes, as lettering or a simple design cut out of the frost. Bring the artwork to the measure and we will say what cuts cleanly at the size you want.
What happens to the film when our lease ends?
Film comes off the glass. If the lease has a make-good clause that returns the glass to clear, taking the film off can be quoted along with everything else.
Do we need the building manager's approval?
That depends on your building and your lease, so check with both. Glass inside your tenancy is often yours to change under the lease; glass on the street front or a shared corridor may not be. We work to the building's rules and never tell you something is approved.
Our partitions are double-glazed for sound. Can they take film?
Usually, on the room side of the glass. Acoustic partitions are often laminated or double-glazed, so the glass type goes on every line of the schedule and the film is picked to match it.
Can you frost one room and leave the rest?
Yes. No job is too small, and one meeting room is measured the same way as a whole floor.
Office areas we measure
More office work: office window tinting for glare and heat and glass door markings and shopfront film.