Hi, I have just purchased an ideal standard resin Streamline riser shower tray (760mm x 760mm) with the belief that it would be strong and hardwearing. However, it marks so easily and everytime I so much as look at it I find more scratches and blemishes. Especially in natural light. Fitted the waste today and its just chewed up the surface. My Car paintwork would be tougher!!! Before the obvious remarks are made, I was being extremely careful, and I was using the foam type washer supplied. Just unbelievable how it marked. Anyway there is no way it is going to end up in my bathroom now as I have no faith in it and god knows what it would look like in a week or a month of use. Is this typical of resin trays? I purchased because I believed they were hardwearing and resistant to marking. How wrong I was!!! I now need to get a new shower tray. It needs to be a riser (I dont want to make my own plinth!!!) tray 760mm x
760mm that is truly hardwearing and scratch resistant with no tiling upstands. Can anyone recommend a manufacturer and what material type I should actually be going for? Acrylic capped resin has been suggested but I thought that was what I had just got. However, I was told the colour goes all the way through which isn't like mine, which goes dark grey after the top coat of soft crap (about 0.5mm thick) Recommendations would be appreciated so I don't make another expensive mistake, although I am going to try and return it as not fit for purpose.TIA
Ian