CLEAR GLASS SPLASHBACK DAYTON

One Finish, Carried All the Way Through

Almost every splashback is opaque. Coloured glass is painted on its reverse face. Matt glass is satin etched. Patterned glass carries its colour behind the texture. Mirror reflects the room back at you. All of them are excellent products, and all of them do the same thing to the wall behind them, which is hide it completely.

That is usually the point. Most splashbacks go over plasterboard or old tiling, and there is nothing there worth looking at.

Here there was. Clear glass is the one option that protects the wall without replacing it. The brick keeps its colour, its texture and its mortar lines, and the cooking zone still wipes down easily. Nothing about the room changed except that part of it became washable.

Our splashbacks are measured on site and made to those dimensions.

Why Low Iron and Not Standard Clear

Standard clear float glass is not quite colourless. Iron occurs naturally in the raw materials it is made from, and it leaves a faint green cast in the finished glass. You see it most clearly by looking at the cut edge of a pane, where the colour concentrates through the thickness.

Low iron glass is made from materials with the iron content reduced, and it carries hardly any green cast as a result. It is a small difference in isolation. The clients however wanted the clearest glass possible to show the brickwork at its best without any interference.

Nothing Conflicting With the Wall

There is a second reason clear glass suits bare brick better than tile does, and it has nothing to do with visibility.

Brick already has a grid running through it. The mortar coursing is a strong horizontal and vertical pattern, and on a wall like this one it is a large part of what makes the brickwork worth looking at.

Tile the cooktop zone and you lay a second grid over the first. Two sets of lines, at different scales, in different colours, competing across the same wall.

This is a single panel of glass. It adds no lines at all, so the coursing runs unbroken from the benchtop to the top of the wall, and the only thing the glass contributes visually is a faint reflection.

Toughened for the Cooking Zone

The panel is 6mm toughened low iron glass, which is what allows it to sit behind the gas burner. It is drilled and fixed with dome fittings, the heads of which are visible as small discs across the face of the panel.

Looking After a Clear Splashback

Glass splashbacks are low-maintenance by design.

For routine cleaning, a soft cloth and a standard non-abrasive glass cleaner is sufficient. Avoid scouring pads and avoid harsh cleaning products.