Does the "low-e green glass" refer to the fact that the glass is earth-friendly or is it so named because the pyrolytic coating is actually bonded to a green substrate? It makes a considerable difference. Al For more information, search this forum using the search words tapla low-e

Google "back painted glass" and your city and you should get some options. At least where I am (DC metro area) the prices varied wildly. All of my outlets are under cabinet, but i understand the glass folks simply cut out the outlets and polish the edges, just as the edges at the end of a counter run are polished to a smooth finish. My glass has little tiny notches cut out for the wire for the under cab plugs. Best of luck.

Window warranties aggravate me about as much as faucet warranties, which are only slightly less annoying than setting my hair on fire with kerosene and putting it out with a brick. I don't know of a single window manufacturer that really stands behind its product. Almost all claim to have life-time warranties, but if you read the warranty, they actually promise very little. At most they will, eventually, send you a replacement part, but actually getting the window fixed is up to you. Not to be impolite, but this is crap. The window fogged up because it was not manufactured properly. There is no other explanation for fogging of an unbroken window. The homeowner did nothing to cause the problem. It is entirely on the manufacturer, who, if he was actually standing behind his product would also pay for the labor to install the window. I am not at all impressed with the fact that a window company makes a video showing the homeowner how to install replacement glass. Why should the homeowner have to install it? He didn't cause the problem. If we install windows for a customer, and they have manufacturing problems, we take care of the problem. We deal with the manufacturer, we install the replacement parts. And we keep track of our time and costs and bill the manufacture for them. If they have not paid in 90 days, we sue. Most people are not ware that the manufacturer's written warranty is not the only warranty a homeowner has. By law the manufacturer warrants the windows to be merchantable, workmanlike, and fit for the purpose for which intended. If the manufacturer violates these warranties by, for example, providing a dual-glazed window with seals that leak so the window fogs up (not merchantable, not workmanlike), he has to pay for the parts AND the labor to install the parts. That is the law, and has been the law for over 100 years. Manufacturers' warranties are not written for the purpose of protecting the customer, they are written to avoid, as much as possible, their duties under these common law warranties. The effort is only effective if the customer lets the manufacturer get away with it. We never do, and we never lose. My suggestion for homeowner is not to deal with warranty issues themselves. Get the company who installed the windows to deal with it. You may have to pay them to take care of manufacturing problems (but not installation problems -- that's on them). That way you avoid the finger-pointing that is common in window warranty claims. The manufacture says its an installation problem, the installer says its a manufacturing problem and no one does anything. Take pictures, get invoices, keep close track of your costs. Add them up and bill the manufacture. The company will probably deny their liability since labor is not covered by their written warranty. Don't spend any time trying to explain your rights under common law warranty -- just sue in small claims court. The judge will provide all the explanations necessary. At $15-45 to file a small claim, it is one of the best judicial bargains around. Keep in mind also that most window companies are members of the Better Business Bureau and as members have to submit to binding arbitration if your ask for it. Ask for it. Let the BBB collect for you. Stop taking crap from manufacturers over warranty issues. Regards,

SHADES! I thoroughly enjoyed all 50 pics...twice!!! You are the QUEEN of Tables!!! And Louise> Hubba Hubba!! Welocome Todd! A couple of comments, GOG that I do is usually with silicone, but silicone looks better depending on what glass you will use. colored, textured glass types look okay but clear or sometimes pale colored glass or non textured glass can show the silicone, or perhaps I just don't take the time to smooth it out as good as I can. Also I too do not recomment more than 1inch grout lines, but a suggestion might be to add black glass in those areas, solid black, to off set the width of the grout. AND my last suggestion is to go to a Tile Shop to get the grout as box stores do not have true black and also have a bigger selection of colored grout. It sounds like you will be opening up a whole new window(lol)for yourself with trying GOG! And just so you know, we LUV pics of work in projects! Hope you stick around, the more the merrier! Oh, and another idea that I'm toying with is to go to a glass store and ask what they use to glue glass to glass as they have some good stuff, but it boils down to price and what I'm willing to spend, and how complicated it is. Right now I cut open a small tube of silicone and gloop away and am happy with that...