one-piece shower wall panels

Jun 01, 2014 3 Replies

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Tim w 12 years ago

Tired of leak after leak am about to strip out shower tray, repair what rot I find underneath, remove door, mixer and tiles from 3 walls of cubicle and refit all. I have seen one piece wall panels of laminate or similar and thought I would use them, so:

Are they any good? not backed with chipboard or anything ridiculous ?

Where do you get them? Suprisingly difficult to find - screwfix, no; toolstation, no; b&q yes but only thin and tile patterned:...

I want them rigid, because the tiles are going to pull a lot of rotten plaster off the old walls for sure and I won't have a good surface to stick them to. Is that how they are?

Tim W

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PJK 12 years ago

They are fairly easily available e.g. here:

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They look good,and work well if properly sealed at the corners, but I have never installed them myself so can't speak for their rigidity.

Peter

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R D S 12 years ago

We had these on our bathroom walls for years before I succumbed and gutted and tiled the place.

There were OK, no probs with water getting through them as long as the edges are sealed OK.

They're not particularly stiff though.

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newshound 12 years ago

Just google shower laminate. E.g. Aquaboard, Multipanel. The ones I have used are good quality plywood with melamine facing (like old "formica") about 8 mm thick. Pretty rigid. Not cheap but you will never go back to tiles once you have used them. Joins and corners use aluminium extrusions. Worth having a sawboard for accurate cutting. Think carefully about how you are going to slot them together into place. Ideally use a shower tray where they fit against an upstand but they can be sealed OK without.

You can also get cheaper PVC panels, but not so robust. I did use PVC "tongue and groove" cladding for the "roof" thought.

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