Frosting Glass

[yadreamin]

Hi All
Can anyone suggest a fairly easy way to frost a window.
I have heard there is a film/contact type of product thats pretty good.
Anyone know of it or have had expirience doing this?
I know that on B Hs & Gs they had this type of product in the last 6 months but for the life of me l have searched that site for 2 hours to no avail.
Help
cheers

 

[wylie]

We have this in our house. Downstairs bedroom has two large twelve pane bevelled doors that slide away and a bathroom window that opens to the garage. Both needed privacy. They were clear glass so we bought locally (Bulimba?) a roll of product that I cut to size and sprayed the glass with water whilst applying the sheets. Once dry, they stick and have stuck well for probably at least five years.

I'll see if I can find out where I got it. It was from a supplier to the glass (?) industry and not a retailer.

Great stuff, works really well and looks good. You'd never tell it was applied afterwards. Absolutely no peeling at the edges or corners. Quality product. Think it might have been 3M and just googled to find this -

http://products3.3m.com/catalog/au/...owfilm_3_0/command_AbcPageHandler/output_html

I know I called the number and found a supplier in Brisbane which happened to be close by and bought it from them in one roll.

 

[weg]

Try Bunnings?

Or online...

glass etching cream

http://www.getprice.com.au/Armour-Etch-Glass-Etching-Cream-Gpnc_233--42761287.htm

 

[weg]

We have this in our house. Downstairs bedroom has two large twelve pane bevelled doors that slide away and a bathroom window that opens to the garage. Both needed privacy. They were clear glass so we bought locally (Bulimba?) a roll of product that I cut to size and sprayed the glass with water whilst applying the sheets. Once dry, they stick and have stuck well for probably at least five years.

I'll see if I can find out where I got it. It was from a supplier to the glass (?) industry and not a retailer.

Great stuff, works really well and looks good. You'd never tell it was applied afterwards. Absolutely no peeling at the edges or corners. Quality product. Think it might have been 3M and just googled to find this -

http://products3.3m.com/catalog/au/...owfilm_3_0/command_AbcPageHandler/output_html

I know I called the number and found a supplier in Brisbane which happened to be close by and bought it from them in one roll.

That looks like an easier product to work with.

I remember looking at the chemical one years ago, and in the end decided to go with professionally made frosted glass instead.

 

[yadreamin]

Thanks folks Again very helpfull SS team.
Wylie thats the stuff l am looking for .
Let me know if you find any more info
ta
cheers

 

[chilliblue]

Call a local signwriter and they can do the job for you.

They would have several types of frosting at various gradients.

 

[amiaow]

IKEA have it too- it's in rolls like contact. Only costs a few dollars!

 

[Propertunity]

An older post here refers to some as well: http://www.somersoft.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25045

 

[wylie]

Thanks folks Again very helpfull SS team.
Wylie thats the stuff l am looking for .
Let me know if you find any more info
ta
cheers

I am happy to dig out where I got it, but that is no help to you in WA.

I called 3M (if it was indeed 3M - I think so) and asked them how I could get some. I was given the name of the local supplier.

Why not give them a call to see who your local supplier is?

 

[lizzie]

I did our clear laundry door in it ... bought from Bunnings for a few dollars a roll.

The hardest part was cutting it to exactly fit - but came up good.

Need window to be really really really clean - no fluff or stray hair or minute granules of dust, otherwise the film bubbles over it. As Wylie said, you then just spray with water and apply. You've got a fair bit of time to tinker before it dries.

 

[pinkboy]

Sandblast it!

 

[Belbo]

Sandblast it!

We use a sandblaster at work. The glass would want to be seriously thick (toughened glass very probably wouldn't survive any blasting edge contact).

The right way it's done is with hydroflouric acid, but there are few more dangerous chemicals out there.

Stick to sticky film, and just replace it if it bubbles or peels over the years.

 

[yadreamin]

Thanks everyone.
I found it. A few to select from at the local Bunnings and a 3M window place.
The bunnings one will do the job and nice and easy to install.
Once l used the word "film" in my searching l made progress.
Cheers

 

[pinkboy]

We use a sandblaster at work. The glass would want to be seriously thick (toughened glass very probably wouldn't survive any blasting edge contact).

The right way it's done is with hydroflouric acid, but there are few more dangerous chemicals out there.

Stick to sticky film, and just replace it if it bubbles or peels over the years.

Oh yeah, glass wouldnt last in my booth! 1100CFM compressor up the ar$e of a steel shot room!

We also us hydrofloric acid to etch floors for coatings....great bit of gear!

pinkboy

 

[Belbo]

Oh yeah, glass wouldnt last in my booth! 1100CFM compressor up the ar$e of a steel shot room!

We also us hydrofloric acid to etch floors for coatings....great bit of gear!

pinkboy

No doubt great gear. Scare's the BJ out of me, but that's the inexperience we have of it being in the marble / flooring game. Are you in specialist glass, Pinkboy?

(A tough game that is today, I think. A mate of ours got a call 2 weeks into his month-long holiday recently to say not only that 4 of his competitors has just closed down, but that his company was closing down for liquidity reasons under accountants' orders. Unless you're in the mass market you're sweating hard.)

 

[chrispy]

My son was a signwriter, so he went and bought a roll from the signwriter suppliers and did it for me. It worked really well and is still in place 5 years down the track with numerous tenants in and out of the place.

Chris

 

[pinkboy]

No doubt great gear. Scare's the BJ out of me, but that's the inexperience we have of it being in the marble / flooring game. Are you in specialist glass, Pinkboy?

(A tough game that is today, I think. A mate of ours got a call 2 weeks into his month-long holiday recently to say not only that 4 of his competitors has just closed down, but that his company was closing down for liquidity reasons under accountants' orders. Unless you're in the mass market you're sweating hard.)

I am in the industrial protective coatings game. We blast/paint, polyspray, polyaspartic flooring, bassalt/alumina/weartech linings, industrial cleaning and scaffolding.

We threw some louvers in a small blast cabinet with some powdery crushed glass as the abrasive. It turned out ok, but not very consistant frosting, but it worked!

I love marble, I completely tiled my house in marble this year. 19 tonnes of tiles in my house !

pinkboy