Ok , wife now wants a glass block wall on the sloped bathroom floor with ......

[Sedgehammer]

Ok , wife now wants a glass block wall on the sloped bathroom floor with in-floor heat ......

I'm thinking I'll need to put heat in the floor first to locate the pex , so I can pin the concrete base to the floor

How would one or what would one put on the end of the glass block wall for support ? If nothing , one could fairly easily knock it over when rounding the corner , as it is a free standing wall on the one end

Thanks

[rusticretreater]

Obviously, finely crafted wedges of treated wood with little curlicues carved in the ends.

[Sedgehammer]

Obviously, finely crafted wedges of treated wood with little curlicues carved in the ends.

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I just had a thought , to put in a heavy galvanized corrugated panel wall . Fasten a pole to the floor and the ceiling . Leave it about 6" off the floor and run it to about 6' 6" high

[Erik A]

They make end blocks that are rounded over and I have seen wire you run between the blocks for strength  

Internet picture, don't ask me anything about it!

[Tom King]

A properly laid glass block wall is about the same strength as one the same dimensions built with bricks, or cinder blocks, and needs the same type support under it.

[Raider Bill]

They make wire ladder specific to glass block.
I did a free standing walk in shower with 2 heads and a center walk though using glass block.
You could hang from the doorway.
I used wire both vertical and horizontally.
It was stout.

[Tom King]

Glass blocks don't suck water out of mortar like bricks and blocks do, so it's best to only run a few courses a day, and let the mortar dry enough to bear weight.  The right mortar bonds to the surfaces better than you might think it would.

The one time I built with them, I set strings vertically for every row, to be sure they were all well aligned, and to not have to bother with a level so much.  Also, set story poles for the horizontal lines.

If the floor is not severely sloped, you can take a small fraction equally with each row on a carefully laid out story pole, and get back to level up the wall.

[Sedgehammer]

Glass blocks don't suck water out of mortar like bricks and blocks do, so it's best to only run a few courses a day, and let the mortar dry enough to bear weight.  The right mortar bonds to the surfaces better than you might think it would.

The one time I built with them, I set strings vertically for every row, to be sure they were all well aligned, and to not have to bother with a level so much.  Also, set story poles for the horizontal lines.

If the floor is not severely sloped, you can take a small fraction equally with each row on a carefully laid out story pole, and get back to level up the wall.

It's pretty steep . I'll likely have to figure out what the angle is and cut a piece of wood to match that . Then i'll just build up that entire floor area to level from the doorway to around the glass block wall . my original plan for this bathroom shower was to not have any physical walls per se , but a shower curtain one could pull around in a 180° when a person was showering , so the entire bathroom floor area save where the toilet & vanity is , that's all sloped . I made this for her handicapped dad . That way when he was bathed , you wood not use the shower curtain and could just turn the flexible shower wand and bath him in his wheelchair . he had a severe stoke and he is wheelchair bound 

[Bruno of NH]

I have built a glass block wall , free standing on one end, in a big walk in shower bath combo.  8'x 12'
My Dad was a Mason and helped me.
We did as Tom did , glass blocks don't suck up moisture out or the mortar.
Wire , clips and bull nose.
As far as I know it's still in use.

[Don P]

If you are pinching a handicapped area, that wall is gonna take a beating. I'd have a stainless post floor to ceiling at the free end and a horizontal embedded flat bar in the mortar joint at 36" from wall to post. Out of that are extended grab rail mounts. The glass block is then basically infill.