Internal PVC cladding

[alan_m]

I'm currently installing some ceiling cladding in my bathroom. It's not as easy as the manufactures would have you believe in their demonstration videos when the room isn't square, the ceiling has to be battened to take out a 'flatness' variation of around 50mm and there is a chimney running up one corner.

The same hollow 10mm PVC cladding is claimed to be suitable for walls. In my opinion it is too fragile for this purpose, especially if installed over battening. It doesn't take much force to puncture and once punctured it tends to splinter.

Has anyone used this successfully on walls ? and has it stood up to normal wear and tear.

[Tricky Dicky]

There is a lot of variation in quality. We bought some for the bathroom cei ling in the last house from a supplier to the trade and the stuff was quite robust, even when I had to dismantle it a couple of times to replace a lig hting tránsformer and the fan over run timer which were housed in the voi d. I do not think I would use it on walls but there are other alternatives for plastic wall panels which I believe are normally bonded to the wall dir ect rather than on battens.

Richard

[stuart noble]

I have a pile of it waiting to be installed in my solid floor downstairs bathroom. I read somewhere that the 10mm gap needs to be filled with nuts/washers to enable any screws to be properly tightened. Mine will be stuck to the walls with battens on the ceiling, the main benefit hopefully being reduced condensation

[Brian Gaff]

I've often wondered if this stuff on the inside of outside single brick walls might be good as insulation, particularly where a draught blows past and causes condensation inside on cold days. Would this work? Brian

[dennis]

There are better ways..

foam backed plaster board. foam backed "Formica" in the bathroom.

[Nightjar]

I did an entire clean room with PVC cladding, fixed to battens with Gripfill. However, I used 2.4m x 1.2m x 6mm foamed PVC sheet and edging profiles I bought from the sheet supplier, rather than a hollow cladding system. That survived 25 years of commercial use, including weekly deep cleaning, and is still in good condition.

[Brian Gaff]

I wouldhave thought that might get soggy though? Brian

[dennis]

What the foam? No its a PIR type closed cell foam so it doesn't care if its wet.