glazier
Sign in to saveA glazier is a tradesperson responsible for cutting, installing, and removing glass (and materials used as substitutes for glass, such as some plastics). They also refer to blueprints to figure out the size, shape, and location of the glass in the building. They may have to consider the type and size of scaffolding they need to stand on to fit and install the glass. Glaziers may work with glass in various surfaces and settings, such as cutting and installing windows, doors, shower doors, skylights, storefronts, display cases, mirrors, facades, interior walls, ceilings, and tabletops.
Key facts
- Occupation.name
- Glazier
- Occupation.image
- 200px
- Occupation.caption
- A glazier at work, 1946
- Occupation.type
- Vocational
- Occupation.activity_sector
- Construction
- Occupation.competencies
- Heights, patience, steady hand, ability to read plans, physically strong
- Occupation.employment_field
- Construction
- Occupation.related_occupation
- Carpenter, electrician, plumber, plasterer
- Occupation.formation
- Apprenticeship
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- Duties and tools
- Education and training
- Occupational hazards
- In the United States
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A glazier is a tradesperson responsible for cutting, installing, and removing glass (and materials used as substitutes for glass, such as some plastics). They also refer to blueprints to figure out the size, shape, and location of the glass in the building. They may have to consider the type and size of scaffolding they need to stand on to fit and install the glass. Glaziers may work with glass in various surfaces and settings, such as cutting and installing windows, doors, shower doors, skylights, storefronts, display cases, mirrors, facades, interior walls, ceilings, and tabletops.
==Duties and tools== thumb|A set of glazier tools