MDF Bath Panel

dori2o

Keeping up with their recent attack on my bathroom, my kids have now destroyed my bath panel (just a cheap acrylic one), so I'm looking at making my own more robust panel.

A friend has told me that he had one made by a local company from MDF, however they charged him over £250 for the pleasure of doing this, but it does have fancy mouldings routed into it.

Now I'm not looking to do anything like this, I just want a sleek, plain, flat panel, with rounded over edges. Painted white.

My question is how would I seal the MDF so that water does not damage it.

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

baby-mechanic

Have just bulit my own panel with panels and mouldings.

No real experience of what is best in this situation, but have done the following:

I used two good coats of undercoat, and two good coats of satin gloss.

not sure if an expert would suggest something else.

helping_hubby

dori2o wrote: »

Keeping up with their recent attack on my bathroom, my kids have now destroyed my bath panel (just a cheap acrylic one), so I'm looking at making my own more robust panel.

A friend has told me that he had one made by a local company from MDF, however they charged him over £250 for the pleasure of doing this, but it does have fancy mouldings routed into it.

Now I'm not looking to do anything like this, I just want a sleek, plain, flat panel, with rounded over edges. Painted white.

My question is how would I seal the MDF so that water does not damage it.

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

We bought an MDF bath panel from Wickes and it says if you cut it then seal the exposed MDF with varnish.

27col

I had an MDF bath panel made quite a few years ago. It is painted with primer, undercoat x2 and gloss x2. Never had any trouble with it at all. Mind you we are careful about water spillage. I do not know what it would be like if your kids soaked it.

simcla

You should use moisture resistant MDF (green)- If you use normal MDF and it gets wet then it will swell big time!

vazzavazza

If you can find it, buy an end-grain sealer or a polyester sealer to seal the edges before painting. As said before, get moisture resistant MDF and use polyurethane spray primer and topcoat.

£250 is very steep for having a piece cut, you're right just to get it yourself.