Glass Splashbacks Colours – Help me choose!

There’s a lot of confusion around colour choice with Glass Splashbacks.

There are really only 2 things you need to consider when choosing a colour for your Glass Splashbacks.

1. What type of glass you have chosen for your Glass Splashbacks

and

2. Do you know the exact colour you want?

We tell our customers to go to Bunnings or Mitre 10 or anywhere you can get some free paint charts from. (The more the better I say!)

If you have no idea – our guys will help you choose when they come out with their expert eyes, but you can have some fun exploring the different options in the meantime!

Taubmans has a great chart that has a little cut out window in it. You can remove the rectangle and then hold the colour underneath to get a truer colour against the white.

My advice is to make a BIG version of it. So get an A4 piece of white paper and cut a big rectangle out in the middle. Purchase a paint pot of your chosen colour and try it in the same position where your Glass Splashbacks will be fitted.

Even better – if there’s no tiles or any colour there – paint the wall!

Once you have selected your colour we can colour match! The only requirement is that you will need to order your glass splashbacks in Starphire glass so the true colour comes through. For more in about glass types – click here.

There is a whole page on Colour choices on our website for you to look at here. http://www.pointcookglass.com.au

Until next week… ciao for now! 🙂

Toughen Glass is used in Glass Splashbacks. Why and How is Toughened Glass Made?

We only use Toughened glass in all of our Glass Splashbacks and we get it toughened here in Melbourne before we paint it. So I know there are different types of Glass but I didn’t know how Toughened glass was made. So I did some research and found a book called; Manufacturing Engineering and Technology Serope Kalpakjian.

Toughened glass is made from normal, float glass.Toughened glass starts life as float glass.Before undergoing the toughening process the glass parts must be cut to size. Any additional machining must be completed before the glass is toughened as it would shatter if it was cut in its toughened state. In the toughening process, the surfaces of the glass are heated in a furnace. Recommended temperatures vary but the glass reaches temperatures of over 600°C. The hot glass is then cooled rapidly by a blast of air over a period of between 3 and 10 seconds. As a result, the surfaces shrink, and (at first) tensile stresses develop on the surfaces. As the bulk of the glass begins to cool, it contracts. The already solidified surfaces of the glass are then forced to contract, and consequently, they develop residual compressive surface stresses, while the interior zone develops compensating tensile stresses. The broken pieces are not as sharp and hazardous as those from ordinary glass.

So there you go! I suppose I really need to look into how glass is made now… :p

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Glass Splashbacks Melbourne

Glass Splashbacks Melbourne

Glass Splashbacks Melbourne

Hey all.  We get so many questions about Glass Splashbacks by email and phone calls. I have put together a list of the most asked questions and will go through them here. Hope they help to sort out some confusion for you!

The most asked question is: What’s the difference between CLEAR glass Splashbacks and Starphire glass Splashbacks? LOTS!

CLEAR Glass has a Green tinge to it (I know it’s weird to call it clear when its obviously not). Just asked my hubby …our top glazier btw  ;). Why it’s called clear and he said. “because there is Green glass available”

Oh now I get it. anyhoo… so Clear Glass makes white paint behind look pale green.

Now, on the otherhand Starphire Glass has no tinge and allows the true colour of the paint behind to appear almost the same (sometimes there may be slight variations).

So my advice is to work out if you like that green look – which is really popular, because its fresh and goes with almost any kitchen. We also have samples made up of colours on the Clear glass that are popular too. Clear Glass Splashbacks are cheaper than Starphire glass Splashbacks – so if price is your concern – choose one of our standard colours.

If you want a specific colour – especially if you want to colour match your glass splashbacks to the rest of the kitchen or home – then choose Starphire glass!

Basically go into Bunnings, Bristol or Dulux stores and grab some paint charts. We can colour match your Glass splashbacks…easy peasy.

Check out our FAQ glass splashback video here  on you tube. Lots more questions answered.

Chat more next week. 🙂

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