Homeowners looking to inject an exciting element of style and sophistication into their homes are discovering the range of benefits offered by glass chopping board splashbacks. In fact many newly developed properties are being fitted with glass splashbacks, both in the kitchens and bathrooms.

As more of us are finding that we’re using our kitchens in a more dynamic way, and as our kitchens succumb to a tougher regime than ever, glass splashbacks for kitchens make a great deal of sense. Although many people choose to have work surfaces and splashbacks made from coloured or back painted glass simply because of the style and visual appearance, there are many more benefits besides the way they look.

It’s worth being aware of these benefits, and providing yourself with the opportunity of comparing glass worktops, work surfaces and splashbacks to those made from alternative materials such as tiles, granite, veneered wood, quartz and even steel.

The many practical benefits of glass splashbacks begin not so much with the day to day use of the kitchen in a family home, but in the installation of the worktop or splashback. Because toughened glass makes for a supremely convenient installation. For example, if you have ever had to fix tiles up against the wall across the full length of your kitchen work surfaces you’ll know only too well how long the task takes. The grouting and lining up of tiles seems to take forever, but with glass splashbacks custom made to the right size there’s no grouting, no lining up of different sections – it simply slides into position and is fixed into place – a task lasting no more than a few minutes.

Glass worktops for kitchens are also very easy to install, being made to measure in most cases, allowing the installation to be simple and easy. Once set up kitchen worktops made from glass provide benefits which are both visually easy to see, and completely invisible. The visual benefits are clear to see. Coloured glass, or clear glass with a coloured back, provide an almost luminescent river of colour which manages to catch and reflect the light in the room in a myriad of ways which makes the whole room seem brighter and lighter.

Most work surfaces absorb light, and reflect almost none, lowering the overall brightness of the kitchen. But glass worktops always reflect a great deal of light, and as light passes through them the light is reflected in all directions, making the room seem brighter, lighter and more spacious.

But there are also benefits which are impossible to see. From the point of view of hygiene glass splashbacks and worktops for kitchens are the best choice there is. Most other materials necessarily incorporate cracks, fissures and seams which can be home to many millions of unseen bacteria. Cleaning and scrubbing can’t always get rid of all of these, making kitchen worktops a constant source of potential infection. Glass worktops and splashbacks have no such fissures or indentations, meaning that they’re very unpopular with bacteria! A quick spray with anti bacterial liquid and a wipe with a clean cloth is all it takes to be able to clean your worktop ready for cooking.

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