SWMBO has a print (16"x11") which she wants framing and putting in the (small) bathroom. What is best in order to prevent damage due to condensation:
Print and glass in contact - or use a mask to create space?
Any suggestions to prevent this Jack Vettriano print getting ruined by a steamy environment?
Water/Condensation has a habit of finding its way into any given area.
Best way is to sandwich it between a piece of clear perspex and a plastic backing and put a sliver of acrylic sealent around the edges.
It comes down to whether you consider it to have real worth or you just like it. If it is worth something scan it, print the scan and put that in the bathroom (with the original carefully stored elsewhere). (There are of course copyright issues which I am ignoring.)
We actually have a reasonable quality inkjet print in our bathroom. It is simply stuck in front of the glass on a cupboard door. (It would make more sense if it were behind the glass but the frosted pattern precludes that.) Apart from some very minor damage from splashes it is as good as the day it was printed (a few years ago).
Bad form - but forgot to say that getting the image printed onto ceramic tiles would stop it from deteriorating:
Would I appear a complete philistine if I were to suggest laminating it?
Hadn't thought of that! It could then be framed.
Abso-blinkin'-lutely!
I have a framed small etching in our small bathroom, we didn't take any special precautions. It's behind a mount in a hand-made wooden frame with ordinary picture glass. The back is sealed with brown paper tape - much like all the other non-oil or acrylic pictures in our house.
Our bathroom isn't especially steamy though, the rh controlled fan takes care of that.
Mary
Yes, but not protected from the laminate!
Mary
Cling film before laminating?
MBQ
We've had a large Georgia O'Keefe print in our bathroom for years. It's in a perfectly ordinary (glass fronted) frame and hasn't suffered any damage at all.
We also have a small pen and ink drawing of a leopard in there, too, and again that's suffered no harm in an ordinary frame.
Perhaps forget the framing, just make it fairly tight, and concentrate on the bathroom ventilation? A large, well ventilated bathroom will house prints no problem. A small, hermetically sealed, steam room will see them off in no time!
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