Appearing in the early twentieth century, glass pane immediately loved designers, and today this kind of decorative coating of walls and ceilings is becoming more popular. Steklooboi - a kind of fabric of smooth and elastic fiberglass. During the manufacturing process, the fiberglass fabric is impregnated with a special composition based on modified starch. When gluing glass beams on the surface, this impregnation is mixed with glue and paint, ensuring very reliable fastening of the canvas on the wall or ceiling. Therefore, glass masonry and have such excellent technical characteristics:
- The maximum period of operation of glass walls is up to 30 years.
- To update (paint) fiberglass surfaces can be up to 20 times.
- The roll has a standard size of 1m x 25m.
- The average density of glass walls from 110 to 220 g / sq. m.
- Steklooboi have unique fireproof properties and good vapor permeability.
- Do not accumulate static electricity.
- They have high strength and excellent reinforcing properties.
- Ecologically absolutely safe, as they are made only of natural materials: quartz sand, dolomite, soda and lime.
What do the glass walls look like?
Before you find out which glass walls are better, let's find out how they look. The simplest version of double-layer fiberglass wallpaper is a coating with a textured geometric pattern: herringbone, chess, matting, diamond and others. A more complex and convex pattern of glass walls is obtained if 12 or more strands are used simultaneously in the work. Even larger and more refined picture can be obtained by applying to the already finished fiberglass compressed fiber. Today, some manufacturers, at the request of the customer, can create unique design variants of fiberglass for example, with a corporate logo or symbolism, family emblem or emblem, etc.
Glassfire application
Due to such unique characteristics, glass walls are used for decoration of walls and ceilings in houses and hotels, offices and schools, hospitals and many other premises. In comparison, for example, liquid glass pavements can be washed and disinfected by any means, even rubbed with a brush and they do not lose their attractiveness. However, remember that if you plan to glue such a cover, for example, in a kitchen where walls need to be washed often, then you need to choose a durable and high-quality paint for painting it.
Such wallpaper is difficult to damage or scratch, which is especially important if the family has children or pets. Due to excellent strength properties, glass fabric wallpaper protects walls and ceiling from cracks and various other defects. Under such wallpaper, there will never be mold or fungus.
Modern wallpaper manufacturers produce special wall paper for walls in bathrooms and showers, where this coating completely replaces traditional tiles. Due to its special structure resembling woven fabric, these wallpapers contribute to the creation of an improved microclimate, without interfering with the circulation of water vapor in the air, and also do not deform in a damp room.
Since glass walls are not afraid of fire, do not melt at high temperature and do not emit any harmful or toxic substances to humans under such conditions, they have a huge advantage compared to, for example, plastic panels.
Since glass itself is a dielectric, the glass walls do not accumulate an electrostatic charge, which means they do not attract any dust, which is very important and valuable for families with allergies.
As you can see, there are many advantages of decorating walls in a room with glass mural, so the choice of the best of them is yours.