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Thanks all for your observations. Without leading them, and providing a photo, Building Control treated the lower panel as a wall - a 'thermal element' - but due to its size in proportion to the whole wall, it is outside part 'L' requirements for a 'thermal renovation' and Building Control...

...seems like a daft question. But Regs designate a window to the outside a 'controlled fitting' so its kind of important. I have a floor to ceiling (almost) aperture which has a window in the top half and a cosmetic panel in the bottom half. The panel is hardwood. Is my 'window' just the...

You read my mind. But true to form I missed the boat and bit the bullet before he posted! I will sell my surplus on Gumtree - enough for a cloakroom loo or a top up on a larger purchase. Thanks all for your observations.

At the risk of sounding like a tightwad/cracked record, I notice that vinyl click together flooring planks come in packs of typically a bit more than 2 m2 which is very slightly less than the bathroom area I wish to floor. I had a moan in the tiling forum about wastage of shower panels when...

They do. I have bought lengths between 2m and 4m . Also, skirting is far far cheaper than shower boards so wastage doesn't hit the pocket in anything like the same way. In a nutshell, if there is demand, and I say there is, then the market is likely to fulfil that demand; it may be left to me...

PS Foxhole, I note your tagline. Mine might be "necessity is the mother of invention" (Ευχαριστώ Plato)

But a shower-bath is a shower and a bath. They are perhaps not purchased for shower-baths because nobody manufactures them in a suitable length and the economics of paying a third more (or wasting a quarter of the material if you prefer) tilts the shower-bath owner towards tiling rather than...

Foxhole, yes, but even I don't trash 1 in every 4 tiles! Freddie, Judging by the numbers of shower-baths I've seen in showrooms they must make up a significant proportion of sales vs showers. Any idea what the ratio is? This would be key info to understand the potential market.

Has anyone experiences of using Showerwall Sureseal at the bath/shwr tray boundary with shower panels? Is it worthwhile or another PITA in practice?

Yup, to paraphrase I was told to take it or tile it. One option offered was to buy 2 x 1m wide panels for the long side and join the the T&G horizontally. This saves a bit of waste and slightly less of cost and seems to be inviting trouble with water running perpendicular to the join. So it...

From where they appear to be now I would agree Freddie, however by not catering to the shower-bath market so well they are changing the equation for a whole chunk of the potential market. I guess I had hoped someone had noticed this and carved out this niche for themselves - maybe I should. As...

I am sold on the notion of using shower panels to replace the tiles of my shower bath but I am a bit surprised (shocked) at the prices for solid core panels. What erks me is no manufacturers I have found offer less than 2.4m lengths, whilst a range of widths are available for different shower...

Very nice. Particularly like your new porch light :sneaky:

Given the current pandemic and my need to prepare a child's bedroom I decided a DIY flooring was the only option. The cheapest option appeared to be a felt back carpet. I figured if it didn't go well I could call in a proper fitter and lay a quality carpet when restrictions are lifted. There...

This thread is old now but thought I would update with what I actually did in case others find it useful. I used red fireboard (plasterboard not mdf) in the kitchen and to aid the fixing and add impact strength I used an overlapping sheet of 9mm ply on the stairway side cemented to the...

Wow, thank you all for your reasoned advice! Lots of food for thought there from all. Its probably as good as most buildings of this era but I want to at least improve it if possible. I'm hoping that having had it overboarded and reskimmed it will be better than the original board and artex...

My stairs cut diagonally down through my kitchen and are currently partitioned by a single thickness of plasterboard which has small tiles on it (in the kitchen). It amounts to a triangle about 6 x 6 feet on the short sides. The tiles obviously stiffen the partition but the whole thing is...