Charleville
13th December 2009, 06:57 AM
A longish preamble to set the scene and then a very relevant question that knowledgeable readers may be able to help with, please...
With Christmas celebrations upon us and needing to get our Christmas dinner with family away from our upstairs dining room so that the food dropped by grandkids lands on a vinyl floor rather than a carpeted one, my wife and I decided to hold this years festivities in our large downstairs rumpus room which opens on to our backyard .
We decided that a large round table would be a useful addition to the rumpus room for such purpose and on Googling retail suppliers of such things, came across a second hand dining room suite for sale that is in good condition and featured a couple of unexpected extras including a glass top over the wooden surface. One look at the table and we were delighted to buy the suite which, one day later, now sits in our rumpus room, thus making our rumpus room decor even more eclectic than it already was. :D See picture below...
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The whole suite is 25 years old, very solid and very well constructed and in pretty good shape. The added glass top makes the table especially useful for family get togethers. The glass top had four button sized felt cushioning spacers between it and the table itself. These self-adhesive backed spacers had perished over the years so we took them out and cleaned off the residue adhesive.
Reasoning that because of the presence of the four cushioning spacers, the glass must need some sort of separator between it and the table top, I positioned a half dozen thin cork discs that I had spare and thought that would be OK.
However, when I placed a cold glass of drink on the glass without a coaster, thinking that with the glass top, a coaster would not be required, the tell-tale cloudiness started to appear below the glass.
I quickly fixed that but, on reflection, have wondered if having the thin cork discs under the glass allows air to be circulated which, in Brisbane's humid conditions, means that a cold object sitting on top of the glass table top will cause condensation to occur on the underside of the glass with resultant wetting of the wood below.
So the the question is, when a glass top is placed on top of a polished wooden table, should it be laid with any sort of cushioning spacer or should it just be laid neat on the surface?
Also, even with a glass top, are insulated coasters necessary under cold objects?
All advice gratefully received, please.
.
With Christmas celebrations upon us and needing to get our Christmas dinner with family away from our upstairs dining room so that the food dropped by grandkids lands on a vinyl floor rather than a carpeted one, my wife and I decided to hold this years festivities in our large downstairs rumpus room which opens on to our backyard .
We decided that a large round table would be a useful addition to the rumpus room for such purpose and on Googling retail suppliers of such things, came across a second hand dining room suite for sale that is in good condition and featured a couple of unexpected extras including a glass top over the wooden surface. One look at the table and we were delighted to buy the suite which, one day later, now sits in our rumpus room, thus making our rumpus room decor even more eclectic than it already was. :D See picture below...
http://img.skitch.com/20091212-f82y5cjcpym1tyyc62my2wh178.preview.jpg (http://skitch.com/charleville2/nmksc/skitched-20091213-051341)
Click for full size (http://skitch.com/charleville2/nmksc/skitched-20091213-051341) - Uploaded with plasq (http://plasq.com)'s Skitch (http://skitch.com)
The whole suite is 25 years old, very solid and very well constructed and in pretty good shape. The added glass top makes the table especially useful for family get togethers. The glass top had four button sized felt cushioning spacers between it and the table itself. These self-adhesive backed spacers had perished over the years so we took them out and cleaned off the residue adhesive.
Reasoning that because of the presence of the four cushioning spacers, the glass must need some sort of separator between it and the table top, I positioned a half dozen thin cork discs that I had spare and thought that would be OK.
However, when I placed a cold glass of drink on the glass without a coaster, thinking that with the glass top, a coaster would not be required, the tell-tale cloudiness started to appear below the glass.
I quickly fixed that but, on reflection, have wondered if having the thin cork discs under the glass allows air to be circulated which, in Brisbane's humid conditions, means that a cold object sitting on top of the glass table top will cause condensation to occur on the underside of the glass with resultant wetting of the wood below.
So the the question is, when a glass top is placed on top of a polished wooden table, should it be laid with any sort of cushioning spacer or should it just be laid neat on the surface?
Also, even with a glass top, are insulated coasters necessary under cold objects?
All advice gratefully received, please.
.