Wall panels in bathrooms instead of tiles

[Railwayroad]

About to do our bathroom. Really fed up of cleaning grout and put plumber suggested panels for the shower area instead of tiles. I think they look ok but not sure….anyone had these and liked them? Idea below.

Yep and they are great!

Much easier to clean, and cheaper to have fitted. No regrets.

i have them in my bathroom, much easier to clean than tiles and grout, I would definitely recommend.

We have them in our bathroom - the previous owner installed them. They look good and do the job.

We have panels in the shower area rather than tiles and they are fine. Rest of bathroom is half tiled, so I wanted something different to the plain white tiles we have there.
We had new plasterboard panels put all round the bathroom as existing plastered walls were uneven. Then skimmed.

My dad got his bathrooms redone last year and had wall panels instead of tiles - not even a mock tile pattern like you have but a sort of glittery quartz effect. Looks great.

I have them in our wet room, and I think they are brilliant. I also believe grout is the work of the devil.

Mermaid board is great! much better than tiles. 100% recommend.

Ooh thankyou all. I have seen some nice designs too.

Literally had a new bathroom fitted before Christmas and had panels put in instead of retiling (cost was a big factor in our decision tbf) the room ‘feels’ different to me more echoey, like the tiles absorbed some of the sound iykwim? but I do like how it looks, at a glance ours look just like tiles x

Thanks. Was it much cheaper for the panel?

Im pretty sure my boards cost way more than what tiles what have tbh

Cheaper, looks sleek with no yukky grout going yellow or crumbling. Quick and easy to fit. Tiles date also and a pain to remove.

Good panels cost more than tiling. My parents had the cheaper plastic ones and found they dented very easily, we priced up some of the higher end ones like bushboard and it was coming in like 5k for the whole room!

The are fab, ours have been in 5yrs now and still look great.

Yes we had them and they were really easy to clean. However our cowboy builders bodged the fitting so we had to remove them eventually. Now have tiles…

Yes I love ours. Much easier to clean and fitting costs were reasonable. Lots of choice of patterns and colours too

We have them in our bathroom, en-suite and downstairs loo as well
they are great and I much prefer them to tiles

It depends on the look you want. We’ve just replaced 2 bathrooms, and did one with panels and the other with tiles. We used light grey grout on the tiles rather than white

Panel cost was similar to tiles but labour costs were much cheaper x

A friend had cheap per panels. They did dent really easily, they were trashed in no time with 2 young kids!

Had ours for years. Still looks brand new and no grout! Can clean with the steam mop.

Can't remember the cost as around 14 years old now.

Our plumber rejected the first two batches of shower board and then referred us to the company where we bought our shower board from.

So easy to clean. We replace the silicon around the bath regularly and it really looks as good as new.

Yes, panels much easier. We're so inclined to think of 1980 caravan holiday bathroom panels- but they've come a long way.

Against the grain here, I'd stick with tiles.

Boards are very easily damaged, more likely to leak and have a lifespan of 10 years before failing. Water ingress is likely, especially if not fitted perfectly.

Tiles are much better as an option, just go for a darker grout colour.

Ours are 14 years old. No damage. No water ingress. Look new.

We did have excellent plumbers though - their craftsmanship probably made all the difference.