Which bathroom wall panel?

[ChickensMightFly]

I need the collective experience of mumsnet!
I'm trying to choose materials for my bathroom fit out and am leaning to bathroom/shower wall panels instead of tiles because they are lighter and no mouldy grout to maintain.
Am I heading to ghastly bathroom hell or have they come on a long way in recent years so actually look really good these days? (online photo's look lovely)
I have looked at Mermaid walls, wetwalls, and a few others and just wondering if anyone has done their bathroom like this? Did you love to? Was the quality there? Which brand is good ... etc etc

These are the ones in the downstairs loo
No MDF so waterproof right through, I really like them so Homes and Gardens can do one frankly

@Hoppinggreen. Yeah poor northern folk Don’t need posh bathroom tiles anyways , just be happy wit tin bath in front t fire t’wash coal dust off . 🤪🤣

Oh no, I live in a rather nice house in a rather nice town in the home counties!! I didn't realise I was only allowed old fashioned tiles in my house!
OP, take a look for yourself and see what you think. Just for info though, the Nuance range have a waterproof core so no mdf. It cost more than tiles though so not the cheapest option.

Sorry sluj they are only for those of us with bog standard houses it seems. Have a “person” come round (via your Tradesmans entrance) and rip them off immediately

Well I would but I have vowed never to have tiles again so I'd be stuffed!!

Hand over your well worn Barbour and scruffy Volvo and be orf with you in which case.
You might as well just get cream carpets, a grey gloss kitchen and a white Range Rover. There are people discussing how to display expensive handbags over on S&B, you would fit right in with your tile resistant attitude - soooo common.

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... the pedant in me looked on the Home and gardens site and discovered an article suggesting panels.

Terrible. I propose a T-shirt campaign.

That’s brilliant MillStone

@tanstaafl

We looked at Showerwall, Multipanel and Bushboard brands, picking a Showerwall design.

Pros and cons?
Pros - the design on the panels could not be replicated with tiles so we have a ‘unique’ look. The clean grout free lines , the easy cleaning.
Cons - the wastage. fitting around a bath meant loosing the top 50cm of board and the way the fitter decided to even out the pattern meant all 4 boards were used ( when I was hoping to keep almost a whole one back to use in the en-suite! )
Another con which might be particular to Showerwall is the panel construction is two hard outer skins with MDF material in the middle.
I’m dreading water seeping in to the mdf in years to come and swelling the board up.

Looking at doing the en-suite next year, I’ll look at whether non mdf panels are available just for that piece of mind.

Thanks! That's really helpful.

The rest of the chat made me laugh.

Best bit of this thread is Hoppinggreen's responses.

To be fair PresentingPercy was making it easy