| | GLASS | SILICA ACRYLIC |
| SAFETY | If broken toughened glass does not break into sharp shards but crumbles like a car windscreen | Most like to crack or split rather than break but if you hit it hard enough it can break and can have sharp edges but will only produce a few pieces. |
| DURABILITY | Unaffected by exposure to light, if not hit with a hammer like blow will last indefinately.
Very hard to scratch accidentally or on purpose. | Various qualities of acrylic are available, the best show little discolouration over time, the lowest quality can develop a yellowish tint.
Very EASY to scratch. |
| MAINTENANCE | Needs little attention | Easy to scratch but these can be polished out if not to deep with a compound polish such as T_Cut. |
| WEIGHT | Much heavier than acrylic | Much lighter than glass |
| FIXING | Due to the weight of glass it is best that the board is NOT fixed to a partition wall and only to brick or block, weight bearing walls. | Due to its relatively light weight, can be fixed to all types of walls including plaster board partition walls. |
| COLOUR | Probably has greater clarity than acrylic but as you won't be looking through it as if it is a window because it has a wall as its background, greater clarity is hard to perceive. | Glass effect acrylic has a subtle green tint throughout which produces the glass like edges. Looking at the panel face on against the background of a wall of any colour the tint is almost indiscernible. |
| DELIVERY | Delivery could be expensive as most courier firms will not transport glass, we may have to hire a dedicated vehicle to deliver a glass board. | Courier firms are less concerned about acrylic but they are sensitive to accidental damage. As a result we pack in an extremely defensive way. |
| COST | Six of one, half a dozen of the other, cost works out about the same as acrylic but with inflated delivery costs | Best quality is twice the cost of cheapest but will retain clarity for much longer. |
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