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Waterproof panels for boxing in in bathroom
I'm looking for a semi rigid waterproof panel to make a bath panel and a
bit of boxing around the rear of a loo. One possible contender might be the Wickes panels: http://www.wickes.co.uk/shower-panel...-shower-panels 9mm WBP core, laminated. Where water is always present, it will be sealed in. For a top surface to pipe boxing, I'd prefer to loose fit (with some magnets or mirror screws) for easy removal - this will only get exposed to water during a wipe down once a week/fortnight. 9mm is a tad thin for a bath panel, but it can have some batten bonded to the back to assist stiffness. Should be OK as is for boxing. Does anyone have experience with this - or even know of a comparable or better product? No MDF cores under any circumstances... A lot of the other panelling seems to be foam cored and designed to bond to a rigid substrate - I'm after something with a bit of integral strength. Ta Tim |
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Waterproof panels for boxing in in bathroom
On 30/01/2016 12:13, Tim Watts wrote:
I'm looking for a semi rigid waterproof panel to make a bath panel and a bit of boxing around the rear of a loo. One possible contender might be the Wickes panels: http://www.wickes.co.uk/shower-panel...-shower-panels 9mm WBP core, laminated. Where water is always present, it will be sealed in. For a top surface to pipe boxing, I'd prefer to loose fit (with some magnets or mirror screws) for easy removal - this will only get exposed to water during a wipe down once a week/fortnight. 9mm is a tad thin for a bath panel, but it can have some batten bonded to the back to assist stiffness. Should be OK as is for boxing. Does anyone have experience with this - or even know of a comparable or better product? No MDF cores under any circumstances... A lot of the other panelling seems to be foam cored and designed to bond to a rigid substrate - I'm after something with a bit of integral strength. Ta Tim I'd expect 9 mm ply to be plenty thick enough for a bath panel assuming it is supported at each edge. As you say, trivial to add another batten in the middle. +1 for loose fixing. |
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Waterproof panels for boxing in in bathroom
On 30/01/16 16:14, newshound wrote:
I'd expect 9 mm ply to be plenty thick enough for a bath panel assuming it is supported at each edge. As you say, trivial to add another batten in the middle. +1 for loose fixing. I took a detour to Wickes after a dump run. Fixing the dormer floor means finding all the crap you should have thrown away before! Anyway, they had some samples at Bexhill and I was well impressed. Foot square ish and I could not bend them, even over my knee. They've laminated front and back and that seems to make them unbendable - whilst remaining light. These probably won't need secondary battening. What they don't have on sale is any edging (they claim they do, but the bloke couldn't find any) so I need to find maybe some C channel of the right sort of size... As to boxing things in, no contest. They only downside is they are ****ing expensive - I am hoping to do it all out of one 4x8' panel. |
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