PVC Shower Panels

Sleepy

We have a downstairs shower room which I eventually intend on gutting but the wife is sick of the awful look of the room as it stands and it'll be a few years before I can afford to do the job right (about 3k by my reckoning) so was thinking of doing a "tiding us over" job of painting the (tiled) walls with some tile paint and grout pen(s) and covering over the broken tiles in the shower enclosure with some of the PVC panels we saw in Woodies a few months back:

https://www.woodies.ie/dumapan-pvc-screening-panelling-marble-g-1103918

Wondering if (a) anyone has any tips on installing the panels (looks pretty straight forward!) and (b) if anyone can recommend somewhere cheaper than Woodies for buying the panels as €150 for 3 packs of (the cheapest patern which I'm not keen on at all) to do an 800mm x 800mm shower enclosure seems very steep given the material!

stratowide

Give a look at enviroclad.ie
Cant remember the price I paid for them.I think it was around €40 per pack.250mm x 2440mm.
6 sheets per pack.
They do all the trim too.

Fairly easy to fit too.

Sleeper12

celuplast will have a much better selection than woodies and probably a better quality too. They have a website too

Stigura

Sleepy; I have those plastic panels. Must say they're really excellent!

Installation couldn't be simpler. I did it, all by myself

Few batons and pin the stuff to them, by the hidden sides.


Of course, if ye want Real cheap? Wait for another election. Grab a bunch of the big, six be three posters. Do it with them, and duct tape!

Payton

stratowide wrote: »

Give a look at enviroclad.ie
Cant remember the price I paid for them.I think it was around €40 per pack.250mm x 2440mm.
6 sheets per pack.
They do all the trim too.

Fairly easy to fit too.

I used this company also, found them great to deal with. Well worth a trip to their showroom.

Sleepy

Looks like we'll be going with enviroclad (great prices compared to Woodies and Builder's Providers and Mrs Sleepy has picked the panels). I'd thought of the election posters idea alright Stigura but Mrs Sleepy wasn't having it!

A question before I put in the order: ow much adhesive / silicone am I likely to need to do an 800mm x 800mm shower enclosure on three sides? Presume I need different silicone for sealing edges and joining the panels to each other / the wall? Would have thought it'd all be Tec7 but Enviroclad list two different silicones on their site and both are under half the price of Tec7...

Irish_peppa

are these basically a quicker cheaper way to give a tiled look to a bathroom / toilet? Was thinking to tile out my understairs toilet and bathroom but its quite expensive labourwise. the tiles and grout not so much thou

stratowide

Sleepy wrote: »

Looks like we'll be going with enviroclad (great prices compared to Woodies and Builder's Providers and Mrs Sleepy has picked the panels). I'd thought of the election posters idea alright Stigura but Mrs Sleepy wasn't having it!

A question before I put in the order: ow much adhesive / silicone am I likely to need to do an 800mm x 800mm shower enclosure on three sides? Presume I need different silicone for sealing edges and joining the panels to each other / the wall? Would have thought it'd all be Tec7 but Enviroclad list two different silicones on their site and both are under half the price of Tec7...

It depends on how much you put on the back of the panels.
I use the anti-mould silicone from any DIY shop to seal the joints.
Ordinary silicone would do behind the panels.

Tec 7 is hard to work and expensive. But some stuff as they say.

Just on sealing the tongue and groove panels.use the silicone sparingly there.
Too much and they won't butt together nicely.

Sleepy

Irish_peppa wrote: »

are these basically a quicker cheaper way to give a tiled look to a bathroom / toilet? Was thinking to tile out my understairs toilet and bathroom but its quite expensive labourwise. the tiles and grout not so much thou

They're cheaper than designer tiles and far less work to put up but not much difference price-wise to generic subway tiles if you're doing the tiling yourself.

Stigura

Where's all this talk of silicone coming from? Do these ones not slide together, tongue and groove style?

I wonder if I was supposed to slather silicone all over my stuff? No one told me. I just screwed three batons to the wall and nailed the sheets to them. Never a problem. No silicone anywhere.

'Mind you, my defining moment was flooring my roof space, one time. I'd got about five sheets down when I noticed something stenciled onto them:

" Other Side Up "

Sleepy

The installation guide for them indicates that when being used for a shower that you should run a bead of silicone along the tongue and groove:

https://enviroclad.com/decorative-cladding-installation-guide/