Removing silicone on glass project
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Comments (8)Here's how I understand it. Thinset is used as adhesive for outdoor projects, for example, patio tables and birdbaths. It can be used to adhere glass to anything, as long as the light is not going to shine through. It will not work for GOG if you want the light to shine through the glass. For GOG where you want the light to shine through, then GE Silicone II Clear for windows and doors, or MAC glue, are the two best choices, as Kat said....See MoreNew project - glass sandwich - suggestions?
Comments (6)Yes it sure starts the mind spinning on so many possibles. I like the idea of layering and the addition of depth. Tamar tried it with her floating frame piece in the GOG forum and I am curious about using paint in backgrounds and fore fronts too... The vine in my Harvest project is a sandwich of 2 layers with painted designs inside - it even made it more shard friendly that way by raising that glass level up...See MoreGlass thickness in funky door project--please advise!
Comments (5)I agree with Mike, 1/8" is perfectly acceptable for your application. In fact, I am a bit curious why the glass installer had any question at all about that. As Mike said, 1/8" is pretty much standard in that application and there really is no reason to even consider the thicker glass. It has to be tempered for code reasons, but that is no problem at all. The waviness the glass installer mentioned is a tempering issue. No tempered glass is perfectly flat. The tempering process introduces a certain amount of "wave" into the product. For the most part, few people even notice it, and when you do your eye pretty much ignores it because you see it everywhere and it isn't usually a big deal. At the size you are talking about you really shouldn't notice it at all. One other thought though. Obviously it is simply an issue of personal taste, but I personally like a bit of waviness in the glass used for a large, substantial door. I am a long way from any sort of designer or anything of the sort, but I think that using perfectly clear glass in a big, heavy door causes a certain "imbalance" in the look of the door - unless the glass is quite small in relation to the rest of the door size. Just a personal observation - and like most opinions we all have one....See MoreHow to remove silicone smudges and templating marks on quartz?
Comments (10)Believe it or not I had a quartz counter get a long line on it from a pineapple! It was on the counter and when I moved it to a new spot I guess I slid it and it left a mark that wouldn’t budge no matter what I tried (including acetone). I finally put some blue dawn on a magic eraser and than goodness it worked (magic eraser alone didn’t help at all, nor did dawn alone, nor soft scrub etc)....See Moretexaswild
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