Common Uses
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Interior Cladding and Walls: Used as a durable, modern, and hygienic alternative to tile or stone for kitchen backsplashes, shower walls, and feature walls.
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Cabinet and Furniture Inserts: Provides a solid color element for sliding wardrobe doors, shelving, and table tops.
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Spandrel Panels (Architectural): Used on commercial building facades to hide structural elements like floor slabs, insulation, and HVAC systems between floors, providing a uniform, continuous colored or opaque appearance.
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Whiteboards/Display Boards: Used as contemporary, easy-to-clean alternatives to traditional dry-erase whiteboards.
Advantages
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Vibrant and Custom Color Options:
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Offers a vast range of opaque colors, including custom shades, allowing for perfect color matching to interior branding, paint, or décor.
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Sleek, Modern, and Seamless Aesthetic:
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Provides a high-gloss, seamless, monolithic surface without grout lines, creating a clean and contemporary look.
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Easy to Clean and Hygienic:
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The non-porous glass surface is highly resistant to stains, mold, and mildew, making it exceptionally easy to wipe down and maintain in kitchens and bathrooms.
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Durable and Colorfast Finish:
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The paint or ceramic frit is permanently cured or baked onto the back of the glass, protecting the color from fading, scratching, and peeling.
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Adds Depth and Light Reflection:
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Even with an opaque backing, the glossy glass front retains a degree of depth and light reflectivity, making the color appear richer and livelier than flat painted walls.
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Cautions
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Base Glass Breakage Risk:
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Since the base is often standard annealed glass, it shatters into large, dangerous shards if broken by impact, unless specified with a tempered base (which is more costly).
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High Installation Cost (Requires Precision):
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The glass must be cut, drilled, and fabricated perfectly before the color coating is applied (especially tempered spandrel glass), making on-site adjustments impossible. Installation often requires specialized crews.
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Vulnerability to Scratches (Front Surface):
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While the color coating is protected on the back, the front glass surface is still susceptible to scratches like any other glass, which can be highly visible on a solid-colored background.
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Gloss Reflectivity of Imperfections:
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The high-gloss finish means that any surface imperfections or irregularities in the underlying wall structure may be subtly highlighted by reflections, requiring very flat and smooth wall preparation.
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