Alternatives for tiles for showers?

Wet wall or shower panel. Available in either 2400 x 1200 or 2400 x 600. Don't buy the MDF type, get the ply based stuff its much better. costs about £90 for a full sheet and joints come in white, alluinuim (polished and brushed) and chrome. Fixed to wall using Sticks like ****,no nails or screws.

 

i do bathrooms full time and would get the shower panels as said, no grout to go black etc, am going to use it when i do my own bathroom, one thing is i dont use the internal joints, just cut neat and butt up in the corner and silicone, dont like the internal joint strips

 

A mate of mine does Italian polished plaster work and it can be used in a shower.

 

Lots of styles available and also come in 900mm width from some suppliers.Some examples below.
http://www.decospanels.co.uk/information18.htm

 

Used Aqua Panels on our shower room about 3 years ago now.
They are brill. Made of marine ply covered in melamine?
Bit of a bugger to get into a small room due to their size but apart from that easy to fit. just seal them with mastic.
Had no probs.

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Dont be tempted to use a dark colour.
It will look * after a month with water marks!!


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Even upvc cladding for showers is available - cheap and nasty but effective.

 

Couple of Tarpaulins strung up will do ya!

 

Quite!...there is a credit crunch on apparently

 

I thought that Aqua Panels (Knauf) was a moisture resistant tile backer board. Is there another product with a similar name which I have not yet found on Google?

I have used Mermaid panels before and am impressed by them and likely to use them again next year when I change a bath to a shower.

Are Spaboard any good? How does it compare to Mermaid?

M2C1

 

think you are right measure man, some confusion abounds

 

google shower panels, aquapanel is a tile backer board.