Painted Glass for Back-splashes
We have been receiving more calls recently for information about painted glass for kitchen and bathroom back splashes. People have been using custom pained glass for walls, cabinets, doors, and even floors on the east coast for a long time. It seems to be catching on here on the west coast as well. Of course, we at Showcase Shower Door Company have been installing painted glass for our customers for years. We have a large selection of colors, and can even match customer supplied samples.
Glass is a great solution when tile or granite is less desirable. Glass offers a surface that is non-porous and easily sanitized. There are no grout lines to keep clean, and there are no limits to the colors that are available. There are different thicknesses, options for regular clear or low-iron glass, the option of tempering, textures, etc. If you have any questions or just want more information about painted glass for back-splashes, just let me know. I would be happy to provide any help that I can.
-Chris
I wouldn’t do the laminated glass; we did it with 1/4″ tempered with straight back-painting and mounted it right over a hot commercial stove with no probs. We did have a lot of back and forth over adhesive, etc because we were concerned… it turned out to be a lot less of a concern than I had thought. I’ll see if I can dredge up the research we did, and the final spec. Can’t think of it off the top of my head.
I’m pretty sure we just used mirror mastic, actually. But the paint was something special, I think. Hmm maybe it was 3/8″ after all. Curse my memory. I’ll try to check my documentation.