Bathrrom Cladding Advise Please

Deigner

Hi

We are redoing our bathroom and are looking at cladding. I ordered samples from a couple of different places and the quality was poor, when the light hit them you could see the backing lines. In all fairness it wasn't the expensive stuff, if i remember it was about £7 a panel.

I am now looking at a brand called dumalock (dark concrete). Does anyone have any experience of this one? If so would love to hear from you.

It is more expensive at around £42 a panel, so am hoping it will be good quality. I want cladding but with the look of tiles.

Also if anyone has any other brands they can recommend that would be much appreciated.

My plan is to have cladding on all the walls but with a white ceiling and floor.

Thanks
D

PS Also does anyone know of any waterproof flooring that is non slip and can be used on the whole floor, including the shower area, we are creating a wetroom without a shower tray It was recommed to use mosiac tiles in the shower area but I really don't like the divided look, I want the flooring to look seamless.

andyhop

I'd avoid cladding in a wet room. Even the larger multipanel boards need a join

Its plastic, always will be and will never look stylish compared to a good quality porcelain tile

For flooring use a preformed tray such as a akw tuff form then use sheet vinyl. Pro-formers for the corners and roll up the wall approx 150mm. Heat weld the corners . If you lay vinyl on the floor and drop the boards or tiles onto it it will fail. If tiling ensure you tank with homelux or similar

MisterBaxter

I suspect the £42 boards will be very thin, the thicker laminate type boards or acrylics will run in to the £100+ per board. I've used proclad boards; they were around £50 per board but they are very thin but surprisingly easy to work with. They are probably best use with a shower cubicle that is shorter and narrower than a single board so that the only joins are in the corners as running joints can look untidy and any joint is another potential water ingress/egress point.

I've never been impressed with the boards that are supposed to look like tiles; if you are going to clad why not choose something that makes use of the simple lines of the cladding; but that's possible just down to taste.

When I've done disabled adaptations in the past I've always used Marley Safetread or Polyfloor Polysafe vinyl; they are designed for wet room use and as stated by 'andyhop' you want the floor to form a cove up the wall and all joints need to be hot weld.

The other thing to look out for when doing a level floor without any screens is that in small bathrooms water can very easily escape the dished drainage area and if there is even a slight fall towards the door you will get an escape of water. Again this comes from doing disabled adaptations where screens are rarely used.

Showerenclosuresdirect

Have you looked for a brand called PERLA WALL PANELS, they are a great alternative to tiling your bathroom. The Perla range comes in a wide range of colours/ finishes to suit your needs. We did use to sell them but due to logistics of shipping such large panels we unfortunately no longer stock the product.

The perla panels are a great quality and thick panel which benefits from easy installation but the price is slightly more expensive +£100.

As for the wetroom option, have you considered a super slimline shower tray? Traymate make a wetroom shower enclosure with a trays height at 25mm. The 25mm super slim tray can be fitted to look seamless against your bathroom tiles.

ed110220

andyhop wrote: »

I'd avoid cladding in a wet room. Even the larger multipanel boards need a join

Its plastic, always will be and will never look stylish compared to a good quality porcelain tile

For flooring use a preformed tray such as a akw tuff form then use sheet vinyl. Pro-formers for the corners and roll up the wall approx 150mm. Heat weld the corners . If you lay vinyl on the floor and drop the boards or tiles onto it it will fail. If tiling ensure you tank with homelux or similar

Disagree there. I ended up using Splashpanels in the bathroom on a stud wall as there was not enough room around a window reveal for tile board and tiles (ie the tiles would have stuck out beyond the wooden lining of the window reveal, which would have looked terrible).

Used a pattern called Zebrawood which looks rather like walnut on that wall to make a feature wall and I think it looks great with the other three walls tiled with stone patterned tiles. You can only see the joins if you look very carefully.

Ed