Product review (3 stars): Stainless steel version
My stove sits in an alcove, and I ordered two of these panels for the wall a few inches to the right of the stove, which is regularly covered with food and grease splatters. I'd hauled out the stove and repaired the wall, and I wanted something to protect the wall from being damaged again -- something that also would be practical to clean and that I wouldn't mind looking at every day. I'd considered the colored versions of these panels, but I was concerned that constant scrubbing might eventually have an adverse impact on their coating, so I opted for the stainless steel version. For various reasons, I'm regretting that a bit -- the fault's not with the panels, but with me.

So this is basically my installation walk through.

These panels came super well packed; they were encased in three separate layers of cardboard and labeled "FRAGILE" and "DO NOT BEND." They're not as flimsy -- and are much heavier -- than I'd expected. Each panel has a screw holes in each corner; the spacing on these: 23" height, 29" length. I was installing these vertically with the two short ends together to make one 5-foot tall panel.

The screw holes on the panels didn't match up with any existing studs inside my walls, so I used plastic wall anchors. For the screws, I used #8 1-inch stainless steel metal screws (I wanted two potential ways to remove the screws out in future, ratchet or screwdriver). With these, I used standard 8-10 plastic drywall anchors (blue). As my set of third hands to hold them on the wall while I was eyeballing their placement, I used multiple strips of Frog Tape (this stuff is quite strong, easy to remove, and generally doesn't damage the paint on the wall).

After I'd gotten the anchors in (1/4" drill bit for these anchors), put the panels up, and put in the screws, I loosened the screws and pulled the panels out a bit to tuck along the sides narrow strips of Scotch "Extremely Strong" (30 lb) double-sided mounting tape to ensure there were no gaps against the wall. I also used a single side of this to hold the two panels together where they meet in the center.

Here's my problem. I'm new to stainless steel -- I've never had anything in my past kitchens clad with this stuff. So I was perplexed by how these panels immediately acquired fingerprints and smears and light scratches that couldn't simply be wiped off. So finally I washed them down with window cleaner spray then I rubbed on/off a coat of carnauba car wax (which I already had on hand). This took care of my initial fingerprint problem, but I can see that just scrubbing these panels down won't be enough in future; they're going to take extra effort that I'd not anticipated and am not looking forward to. I may wind up eventually replacing them with something less high maintenance.

A few more comments: The stainless steel panels are NOT magnetic. (I don't know if the other versions of these panels are, but the stainless steel most definitely ARE NOT.) Also, the sides of these panels aren't sharp, but the corner points are -- and people should file them down a bit if they're going to wind up in the vicinity of hands or limbs.