Work bench back splash

[coljar]

I need some fresh ideas. I'm installing used steel laboratory cabinets as work benches along the wall in the shop area of my garage. The back splash will be about 2 ft. tall and run the length of the bench which is about 16 ft. with a built in sink on one end. Above the back splash will be commercial white slat wall with aluminum ribs. I don't want to use peg board like I have in the basement shop. I've thought this thing to death and would like to see if there's something different that I haven't thought of. Keep in mind, I want something around the sink area that's easy to wipe down. The dirty shop sink is in the building next door where the dirty work gets done.

 

[boobag]

sheet metal?

 

[alberto]

Few ideas I am considering for a similar application:

Aluminum flashing in rolls (buy the height that best suites you to avoid cutting), such as: http://www.homedepot.com/p/Unbranded-20-in-x-25-ft-Aluminum-Roll-Valley-Flashing-68520/203851114

RFP such as (must be cut to fit your height): http://www.homedepot.com/p/PLASTEX-1-16-in-x-4-ft-x-8-ft-Plastic-Panel-63003/202090190

 

[chrispyny]

I am in the middle of refreshing my garage. Gladiator cabinets and racking, paint, new outlets and switches and plates, racedeck in the spring.

After having put up the cabinets tonite, next is the backsplash for the 8' bench and i'm thinking aluminum diamond plate. 8' long by prolly 24" tall. Next is to call metal place monday to see how much that might cost.
I need to look into NEC for outlets thru metal backsplash also.

 

[7echo]

See if you can get a sheet metal shop to bend a piece of stainless that will clip into the slat wall.

 

[Tim The Tool Man]

Ceramic tile?

 

[Modern Jess]

What's your budget? Restaurants often use a kind of quilted stainless steel panel for backsplashes on work areas. It looks really nice, but don't know how much it runs.

 

[Duker]

I am thinking about using something like the attached stainless tile or a sheet of stainless steel around my sink. I will have an aluminum U channel on the bottom of the slatwall to finish off the look. If I use stainless sheet I will just screw through the slatwall into the studs and the sheet and cover it with the slatwall

 

[coljar]

What's your budget? Restaurants often use a kind of quilted stainless steel panel for backsplashes on work areas. It looks really nice, but don't know how much it runs.

That would look nice. A while back I was in a Walmart restroom and they had this really nice basket weave looking stainless steel between the stalls and on the wall. I wonder how much a couple of 4 x 8 sheet of it would cost?

 

[bullnerd]

Formica

 

[Modern Jess]

That would look nice. A while back I was in a Walmart restroom and they had this really nice basket weave looking stainless steel between the stalls and on the wall. I wonder how much a couple of 4 x 8 sheet of it would cost?

I just checked, and it's pretty expensive. There are a bunch of other patterns available as well, some ugly, some interesting: http://www.commercemetals.com/stainless-steel-kitchen-backsplash/

 

[bullnerd]

More texture = more dirt holding ability. Formica...cheap, easy....you'll be dead before it wears out.

 

[rburke65]

The aluminum diamond plate in a 4x8' sheet, then shear it length wise would I've you your 16' 24" high. Dia.plate is sort of over used any more, but.......

 

[metalmagpie]

If your bench is anything like mine, after a few months you wouldn't even notice a backsplash. I have steel drawer cabinets all along the back of my benches. They extend up 18" or so. I put things on top of them that are too tall to fit into the drawers below the bench top, let alone the smaller drawers up on the bench top.

metalmagpie

 

[Ohio Auto]

Aluminum diamond plate...can get them in 4 x 8 sheets...I find them on craigslist around here. Light and would be easy to glue onto any wall I would think.