Made-to-measure back-painted glass

Thanks to its opaque colour and smooth surface, back-painted glass replaces paint, tiles or laminate wherever you want a clean, easy-to-clean finish:

• Kitchen: splashback behind the worktop, cooker hood splashback behind the hob, cladding for an island or a recess.
• Furniture: wardrobe and walk-in wardrobe doors, unit fronts, chest of drawers or desk tops, shelves.
• Decoration: wall panels, headboards, dry-wipe marker writing boards, office or shop signage.

The paint is designed for the dry rooms of the home. For a bathroom, a shower or outdoors, choose enamelled glass, whose colour is fired into the glass during toughening.

The price of back-painted glass is calculated by surface area (m²) and depends on the thickness of the glass and the colour. White and black, the most popular, as well as the colours in the Plakglass selection, are offered at a more attractive price than the other colours in the RAL, NCS and Pantone charts. Depending on your project, the following may be added:

• low-iron glass, recommended for whites and light colours;
• a matt finish (back-painted frosted glass);
• the shape (L-shaped, U-shaped, round, arched…) and rounded corners;
• socket cut-outs, holes, drilling and cut-outs.

The configurator displays the exact price with every choice, with no quotation to wait for. To keep to your budget: go for white, black or a colour from the Plakglass selection, stick to 6 mm for a splashback or wall cladding (there is no need for a thicker panel), keep low-iron glass for light colours — for black or a dark colour, clear glass is enough — and group pieces in the same colour into a single order. Compared with tiles, back-painted glass can be fitted in a few hours, by bonding, with no grout lines or major works.

The glass is toughened to EN 12150: around five times more resistant than ordinary glass to impacts and temperature differences, it shatters into small, blunt pieces if it breaks. The paint, applied to the back, is protected by the glass on the room side and by a safety film on the wall side, which also holds fragments together.

• Heat: 6 mm minimum behind a hob, all hob types; with gas, 10 to 15 cm between the flame and the glass.
• Hygiene: smooth, joint-free surface that does not hold grease or dirt.
• Long-lasting colour: protected behind the glass, the paint does not scratch or fade with use.
• Edges: flat polished, not sharp.

The configurator first offers a Plakglass selection of the most popular colours, at a more attractive price, and the colours of the year, followed by the full RAL, NCS and Pantone charts. Already know your colour code? Enter it directly.

Low-iron glass, almost colourless, reproduces the colour without altering it: it is essential for whites, pastels and bright colours. Clear glass, which is slightly green, is suitable for blacks and dark colours. A gloss finish gives a deep mirror effect; a matt finish, produced on frosted glass, gives a satin look without reflections that shows marks less.

The colours displayed on screen are for guidance only: to be sure of your choice, compare with a physical colour chart.

The shape selector gives access to all our cuts: rectangle, square, round, oval, oblong, half-moon, L-shaped, U-shaped, T-shaped, arched, shapes with arcs and shapes with cut corners. Each corner can be square, clipped, rounded or angled. Then add fixing holes, single, double or triple socket cut-outs, round holes, notches and rectangular cut-outs: the configurator automatically checks the minimum distances from the edges and between cut-outs required for toughening. All edgework is carried out before toughening and painting; no machining is possible after delivery.