Glass matting: to make exclusive familiar surroundings

With a proven and uncomplicated technology, you can create a stylish ambience in the interior, which will surprise you with its uniqueness and reward good mood for the work done.

Glass matting - the technology, the effect of which is the direct opposite of polishing. If polishing gives the glass a gloss and transparency, the frosting on the contrary, makes the surface rough, opaque and matte. Why do you need a glass surface like transformation? It's simple: matte patterns allow to give a special charm to the originality and even impersonal objects.

Glass matting can be produced by various methods: chemical and mechanical, roasting method and using matting paint coatings. But if the industrial scale all these methods are suitable to the same extent, in the home appropriate to practice the application of chemical frosting and matt coatings. It is they who give the most qualitative result of them will be discussed.

chemical frosting

Chemical matting is performed by using a special matting paste. It enables to change the internal structure of the glass surface by acting on its aggressive chemicals and destroying the crystal lattice of silicon oxide. Upon completion of glass process produces silky translucent image that is so resistant to handling, that they can not even be removed by mechanical means.

Using a stencil of a film, one can obtain matte drawings of any size and configuration: it can be lettering, patterns, logos and the whole composition is from several stencils.

we need for chemical frosting:

• degreasing liquid (rubbing alcohol);
• Disposable rubber gloves;
• napkins;
• rubber spatula;
• spray adhesive stencil stickers (if you are using a stencil of the self-adhesive film - glue is not necessary);
• matting paste;
• Reusable stencil with a pattern and, of course, a glass object that you are going to decorate.

Alcohol will need to make the surface of the glass perfectly clean. This will provide a uniform pattern clarity and haze. Other types of solvents can be left on the surface of the glass film of persistent chemical compounds, so their use should be abandoned.

If the matting paste is applied on the unprepared and untrimmed surface, the finished drawing can go to spots, and eliminate such a defect has not received any funds.

Disposable gloves help maintain an ideal glass surface cleanliness and protect hands from the impact of aggressive chemical environment (despite the fact that the composition of the matting paste is considered to be harmless to human hands, it is better to err and protect them).

As for the adhesive stencil sticker: it is better to buy special sprays neostavlyayuschie marks on the glass surface. They can be purchased in the store or ordered online.

The most important components involved in the process, a paste for matting. There are recipes for self-matting composition, but the wise elder people recommend using a ready ingredient, which can be obtained from a specialist shop.

Barseek (Member FORUMHOUSE):

I do not want to advertise. He scored in Yandex matting paste and bought the first 3. Draw absolutely any pasta (experience has shown that they differ only odor, and then only slightly) kept 3-15 minutes (depending on the manufacturer's recommendations), and the result is ready.

Certified manufacturer of fine paste reacts with the glass surface is safe for human health, it does not contain strong acids and when using it you can achieve excellent results.

As for the stencil, then they are made on the basis of rigid film, which produces products for multiple use. In some cases, the stencils are self-adhesive base. Prepare yourself for the stencil to the desired image of three ways:

• Cut it yourself with a sharp and thin knife.
• By purchasing a ready-made product in the store.
• Order the production of the stencil at a special plotter. This method is most preferable, because the plotter can produce stencils with drawings of any complexity.

Barseek:

We think that the draw, looking for picture and prepare it for cutting plotter. Optimists can buy a special knife for cutting the stencils and hand, but the plotter faster.

The sequence of work

Prepare all necessary and choosing glass object for drawing the image, you can start working. The first step is to measure the stencil and mark its future position (e.g., using masking tape or a washable marker). After all, when the film is an adhesive, in proportion to the place on the glass figure will be much harder.

Mark the surface, it should be wiped dry and process the alcohol.

After degreasing on the glass surface can not leave fingerprints. This will lead to the appearance of defects on a decorated surface or a matte pattern distortion.

At the next stage the stencil is laid face down on a clean sheet of paper and covered with glue. If the stencil has a self-adhesive base, then this should not perform the procedure.

The adhesive applied in a thin layer - in accordance with the instruction. Then the stencil is laid on the predetermined region marked-glass surface, covered with a clean sheet of paper, and carefully smoothed cloth or cloth. Paper will help maintain the integrity of the stencil and allow it to be reusable.

The key point is represented by a sequence of applying matting paste on the stencil.

Getting on the glass surface, matting paste instantly reacts with it chemically. Therefore, it is important to protect against small drops of glass are areas that do not close the stencil.

The paste is applied in a continuous pattern and evenly. The layer thickness has no special significance, but is typically 4... 5 mm.

Duration matting must comply with the recommendations matting paste manufacturer (typically process lasts 15 minutes). After waiting the recommended time, you can start removing the stencil. The action is carried out in several stages:

• Collect excess paste from the stencil surface back into the container. Given that the paste reusable, they are still needed.
• Wipe residue with a dry cloth.
• Without removing the stencil, with plenty of water wash off the remains of the matting composition. Most effectively washes away residue with a jet of running water, but in extreme cases, fit and full of five-liter bottle.

That's all. You can remove the stencil. After you complete the event image forever imprinted on the glass surface.

Matting spray paint

Spray paint matting (also called "spray frost") allows you to create dense and opaque glass image that will please its beauty for a long time. And if necessary, the image may be rinsed boring ordinary liquid paint strippers.

Preparatory operations prior to applying the aerosol frost similar to those produced before applying matting paste: fitting stencil degreasing of glass, sticker and smoothing stencil.

Prior to applying the aerosol glass surface, IRREPARABLY matting should be completely closed or paper masking tape. The space around the glass does not hurt to cover the materials at hand. This caution stems from the fact that the radius of spray paint aerosol can go beyond the stencil.

The paint should be applied in accordance with manufacturer's instructions. After drying, paint the stencil can be easily removed, and your eyes the result of the work done.

This method of matting is somewhat simpler than the previous one. At the same time it has its own advantages. So, always a bad coating can be washed off and cause a new drawing.

After reading just two methods of frosting, you can choose the most suitable. In the meantime, let's take a look at the samples of decorative articles made members of our portal using matting paste.

Matting glass hands FORUMHOUSE users

Glasses, intricate chandeliers and souvenirs - all this can be done with ordinary glass bottles, stencils and matting paste.

As you can see, having a good imagination, it is possible to realize the most unexpected ideas. In the case of a bottle main difficulty is to evenly divide the glass container into two parts.

This will help ordinary glass cutter and a special device that easily can be made with your own hands.

Barseek (Member FORUMHOUSE):

Constructing the device, through trial and error will come to the most convenient option. Bottles of different lots under all need to adjust (the square until the rule). A start - you've spent a circle glass cutter, it must be sufficiently clear and uniform. Worse, when the press is weaker than the more - the likelihood of cleavage in the process of separation is high.

The author of this post offers to share a bottle into two parts, using hot water and cold water. Initially seam from stekloreza pours boiling water, and then is inserted under a stream of cold water. Sequence of operations is repeated as long as the bottle is not divided into two parts (generally sufficient to separate 4... 7 cycles).

Sharp edges, resulting after the separation of the bottle, you need to be sanded and polished.

Barseek:

We proceed to the process of grinding the obtained surfaces. For this, we use waterproof sandpaper, starting with 80 rooms. Then increase the number every 100 to 600 th. Then you can clean up the numbers 1000-1200 and polish than anything (the longest version, but the cheapest). I also tried the diamond stones (number: 200-300-400-600). Then, again, 1000-1200 and polishing. It is faster but more expensive.

In this case, note that not all diamond abrasives are suitable for the treatment of such surfaces.

Pauline (Member FORUMHOUSE):

Diamond bar must be either specifically for glass or metal or sawmills stone (such as granite), since the glass - the solid material.

After the sharp rim is stripped and polished, it is possible to start matting process, guided by one of the techniques described above.

Learn from the experience work on the transformation of glass productsGained by users of our portal, you can in the appropriate section. In addition, you can read an article about both made of wood and glass original table in the living room (while it will be decorating the relevant practical skills matting). BUT master class in stained glass painting It teaches you to decorate glass objects with the brightest colors.

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