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14th January 2008, 10:13 PM #46
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Any idea of the prcing? I was thinking of using them to make some "glass" framless doors for some wall niches in the bathroom, although if they are flimsy then maybe I might have to back them with some ply or something.
PS. That faux glass stuff looks really good (at least from the tiny pic). Anyone know where to get it?
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15th January 2008, 05:02 PM #47
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thanks mate. I was kind of keen on the glass look too.
I talked to a kitchen guy today and he said that theyve changed the rules recently for splashbacks behind ovens(gas) More or less saying that tile is the only option unless you put villaboard on top(or behind?) your gyprock wall. hmm, is that right ??
yeah those 600 mm tiles might be good though..
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29th March 2008, 06:34 PM #48
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I like the idea of the 600 tiles. Any idea of the cost of these, and where to get them?
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1st April 2008, 01:35 PM #49
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1st April 2008, 05:06 PM #50
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Looks great - looks a lot like a glass splashback, really.
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1st April 2008, 06:57 PM #51
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I done a job for a friends brother who was at the time a sheet metal worker at Qantas, he cut 300 x 300 sheets of polished stainless with a 6mm lip folded at 90 degrees on all four sides, he then cut squares of villa board to fit inside the stainless and glued them together. When the kitchen went in he used these as his splashback tiles, grouted and all. A bit of a polish and they looked a treat against the ceasar stone bench tops. It took him a couple of months to make enough and back in the glory days of working at qantas he managed to turn out six or seven tiles a shift. Impractical I know but just thought Id share the story.
Plumbers were around long before Jesus was a carpenter
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2nd April 2008, 03:02 PM #52
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Bleedin. A mate painted his glass just with a roller and it was perfect. I'm sure you have tried that but perhaps it was the type of paint that mattered?
The only real different to the normal splash back was his are not so shiny. But you could never tell the difference if you didnt know...
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2nd April 2008, 03:39 PM #53
I ended up using metalic painted starfired toughened glass.
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2nd April 2008, 07:05 PM #54
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3rd April 2008, 11:06 AM #55
No I got a professional mob to supply and install. By that stage in the reno my enthusiasm had waned so I took the easy option.
Actually my rationale was one of the pieces of glass was huge and I would rather someone else take the liability of transporting it to and from a spray painter as well as installing it.
I wasn't 100% happy with the installation but it was acceptable.
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5th April 2008, 05:07 PM #56
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I was going to have glass splashbacks and the plumber insisted that I install a fire retardant sheet (can't remember what it was called) behind the cooktops before he would put them in. He said it was a new regulation. This stuff was the same thickness as the plaster so caused no major drama.
I later got a quote for the splashbacks that worked out at around $700/sq.m. Needless to say I brought some tiles for a tenth the price and am more than happy with the result.
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7th April 2008, 02:23 PM #57
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7th April 2008, 05:37 PM #58
The client chose the tiles themselves and had them installed after the cabinets and tops were fitted, so I wasn't involved with the tiling process on this job.
I have had a few clients put this detail in their kitchens recently, lots of narrow broad tiles, sort of 60's stacked slate revisited - it is one of those things that is currently very popular...and I suppose it looks pretty good; this particluar kitchen has dark slate floors and the tiles tie in with that quite well.
I didn't look closely enough to see how the tiles were applied, but I would imagine that they came in larger sheets, maybe 100 x 300 or something like that.
I agree that this is possibly the worst part of a kitchen to have lots of tiles with lots of grout, but as said, I wasn't consulted on the tile choice, and the client probably wouldn't have listened to me anyway...in my experience, if someone sees something they like, the opinion of someone who makes a living working in the industry will rarely influence them.
Cheers,
Earl
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7th April 2008, 08:11 PM #59
Those stacked slate-like tiles are currently the trendy thing with interior designers. They are even available at Bunnies, they come as 150x300 'tiles' (about 4 or 5 courses of slate) from memory.
If you though cleaning grout was hard...there's absolutely no way I'd put those tiles behind a cooktop unless the cooktop was never meant to be used - they'll get spatter marks, grease and dust trapped in them so easily they'll start looking like the underneath of an old refrigerator in no time.
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9th April 2008, 08:26 AM #60
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What about lining boards? We are doing up our kitchen and we are planning on using Weathertex strips turned on their side or something similar to get the whole lining board look.
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