I am installing a new shower and I am considering using bathroom cladding panels. Does anyone have experience of using Celplas PVC panels? I have a friend who was advised to use Nuance panels but these are about three times the price of the Celplas ones. Are they really worth the extra cost?

A  quick site-wide search shows that nobody has mentioned them. They are manufactured locally to us (North West), so might well not be available across the UK - hence the lack of reference to them here on BH.

 

Here's the url for the (in)famous bathroom boxing in : settle in for a quiet night's reading by the fireside. Somewhere in there you'll find an alternative for what you are looking for. 

 

Reading glasses at the ready ..... Go !

I used pvc ones, vert like twin wall polycarbonate, cheap light easy, also easy to damage, do work, mine done free in very low income household 4 years ago still undamaged and ok 

A lot of us are happy with Multipanel, and if buying them, get them from a builders Merchant, I found Jewsons the cheapest.  The high street bathroom shop wanted 3 times as much as Jeswons per panel.

1 minute ago, tonyshouse said:

I used pvc ones, vert like twin wall polycarbonate, cheap light easy, also easy to damage, do work, mine done free in very low income household 4 years ago still undamaged and ok 

That sounds like the ones that were fitted to the ceiling of the bathroom I did last week,  Horrible things to drill holes in for downlights.

7 minutes ago, ProDave said:

That sounds like the ones that were fitted to the ceiling of the bathroom I did last week,  Horrible things to drill holes in for downlights.

 

So how do you drill into those panels without skittering around all over the place?

11 minutes ago, ToughButterCup said:

 

So how do you drill into those panels without skittering around all over the place?

Thankfully these were glued to an existing plasterboard ceiling, so once the pilot drill was through the plastic panel it located in the plasterboard.  And the downlight fitting clipped into the plasterboard.

 

I once did a bathroom with this as the ceiling, but with no plasterboard behind it. Horrible brittle stuff to drill and high risk of the drill wandering, and once you clip a downlight fitting into it, I bet you won't remove it without destroying the hole.

 

It would NOT be my choice of a material for a bathroom ceiling.

ProDave   I have strengthened my ceiling pvc panels where the downlights are fitted with a 200x200x5mm perspex patch with a 75mm dia hole siliconed to the back of the panel. (I have a CO2 laser cutter so this was an easy task) This could also be acheived with plywood etc.  If you can reach the top side of the pvc panel you could cut the patch in half and put the the two pieces together with the light in situ.

Does the PVC panel have to be fire-rated?

We've stopped having our barbecues in the bathroom and prefer al fresco! 😃

Well most folk in Pilling have their BBQs in the bathroom, I'm told. For one thing the water is warmer indoors