Clear glass splashback over tiles?

[NotMyFIrstTIme]

Has anyone had a clear glass splashback fitted over tiles and if so, did you have any problems with it or regret it?

This will be new tiling (new kitchen) and I'm thinking of doing this so I can have the look of tiles all around and yet still have the easy-cleaning convenience of glass behind the hob.

We have upstands then glass with the back coloured to match the colour of the walls (not the same colour as the paint as it looked different applied to the glass so had to be a slightly different shade)

@LynneBenfield
I cook. My kitchen is a working kitchen. I don’t mess up the walls. Obviously behind the hob you need something but glass over tiles is just odd. Large format tiles are not flour tiles! You need to look at somewhere like Porcelanosa to understand how modern tiles butt up to each other and are quite slim. They are beautiful. Definitely better than lots of little tiles. Or use a slab of the worktop granite etc. DD has Solid Surface on her wall behind the hob. It looks seemless, classy and sleek.

I know exactly what large format wall tiles look like and I’m not a fan of the style

Tiles are much easier to clean than the glass. I really regret having it, have to unscrew it every few months to clean both sides.

Bought a house with a brand new kitchen. Not a tile in sight. Just panels and a glass splashback behind the hob, nothing has got behind it in six years. I do not miss kitchen tiles

Panelling isn't new. A friend bought a 1920's house with original art deco bathroom. It's stunning. Glass panels in a sea green colour.

My glass splash backs are the full length of the worktops, fitted by the supplier, glued on and sealed all the way around so no fly problems. Very easy to keep clean, in fact very very low maintenance. The paint is metallic, perhaps that helps disguise marks.
I didn’t want to clean grout which is why I went for glass.

If you have a glass sheet covering your times wouldn’t it steam up between the tiles and glass

That's a good point: I (stupidly) hadn't considered that if I did this, the glass would not be against an entirely flat surface.

All glass or all tiles it will be then!

We have this...you dont even notice the glass...and very simple to clean...we went to local glazier with sizing and asked for 4 holes ....it cost 40 quid

What about a free standing glass splash back like this? I've never seen one so can't vouch for it www.diysplashbacks.co.uk/freestanding-glass-splashbacks-for-kitchen-islands

We have upstands round the worktops. Behind the hob we have a glass splashback but the back of it has silver glitter. It is attached by some sort of adhesive and sealed.
We got it off a company that has an eBay store. It was about £60. They had lots of other colours of glitter.

My friend had a thinner version of her worktop on the walls instead of tiles up to the bottom of the wall cupboards.

Giant tiles are the answer. Only one between the worktop and cupboards above. One vertical grout line every, say, 90cm ot more if you choose bigger tiles.

Also they should be Matt and not shiny. No wipe marks will show.

I have a very course Matt grey tile and grey grouting .. it's easy to wipe and no issues with wanting to regrout.

And you don't have any issues resulting from the fact that the tiled surface behind the glass is not completely flat?

None….we actually have rustic style tiles as well so they are a bit riven

Another option is wall panels - not suitable for behind hob but great everywhere else

www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/lysekil-wall-panel-double-sided-white-marble-effect-black-white-mosaic-patterned-40464432/#content

or this which I have and love

www.worktop-express.co.uk/patterned-splashbacks/victorian-mosaic-tile-splashback-grey-3000-600-9mm

Following as we are about to DIY our kitchen and the tiles behind the hob will be the first to go! The grout is awful and I never want to clean it again 😂

We have a textured tile splashback, sort of beige and speckled, which I think the previous owners of our house chose when they bought the house off plan. I hate it. I hate it I hate it I hate it. It always looks dirty even when I've spent 15 minutes scrubbing it, the grout always looks manky and most sponges and rags end up in tatters because of the STUPID TEXTURING.

I assume they chose it because they didn't want the dirt to show up, which I suppose has worked in the sense that the splashback looks dirty whether there's dirt on it or not.

I have considered getting glass put over them (at least at the back of the hob) and probably would do it if we weren't planning to replace the whole kitchen in the next couple of years.

I have clear glass splashback just above the cooker over Italian marble (because it stains easily). It's hardly visible as the marble design is seen through, but it keeps it clean and white rather than yellow and splattered with red!

I did this in our last house, had the uniformity of tiles all round the kitchen, no upstand, not a fan. The glass splashback kept the tiles and grout in good nick and easy to keep clean.

Sounds lovely OP, the glass will save the grout I'm sure.

I'm poor, and my oven with gas hob has a glass lid you can lift/close down. The glass lid saves my tiles from stains when cooking. 😳👍🏻

Thought I should show you all what I ended up doing.

The glass supplier my kitchen designer/fitter uses had just brought out some new colours in their range of 'textured' glass: the texture is behind the glass surface. Previously, I'd only seen examples that were dark and/or somewhat metallic finish, which I didn't want.

This is not entirely plain, which I wasn't too keen on, but with the practicality of glass.

Looks fantastic and so practical. Life is too busy to be scrubbing grouting

Have a look at Bushboard - they do alloy and MDF splashbacks which look like tiles but have the easy cleaning no grout option you're looking for

That looks lovely @NotMyFIrstTIme - thanks for coming back to share what you decided on!