Do you require a material that can give you some amount of privacy and style at the same time in your office or home? What you actually need is frosted glass whether it’s for your window and door installation, or partitions. It’s one kind of processed glass that has translucent surface and won’t let a clear view but allow the light to diffuse through it. Available in different frosted glass designs, you can have one that will create the decorative visual effect anywhere you want it.
But before you decide which design is perfect for your window and door installation, here are some things you’d better know about frosted glass. Frosted glass comes in various sizes and thicknesses. The standard size is at 1320mm x 2140mm while the thickness ranges from around 3mm - 19mm. Because of the translucency of the frosted glass surface, it offers good privacy to the interiors while still allowing the light transmission to occur.
As such, it can help reduce the need for more lighting and is a perfect alternative when blinds or curtains are not applicable. And of course, there are a variety of designs and colours available to create the desired decorative effect to the interior style of a home. You can even use it in a combination of a patterned glass for a unique, innovative visual effect in a window and door installation.
There are two major types of frosted glass depending on the way it’s produced. The first one is acid etched glass that uses stencils to create various designs. Similar to float glass, acid etched glass has a smooth surface that can be produced in different degrees of transparency. It can be only light, a bit moderate or fully opaque.
The other type is the sandblasted glass, which comes in much more versatile varieties. The surface of this frosted glass is rendered translucent and rough. The translucency can be adjusted by altering the type of sand used and the velocity of the sandblasting machine. The pattern is achieved by covering the part that has to remain unetched and blasting the surface to be etched.