fixing aqua panel to wall

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the tiles in my shower enclosure were letting water in and the plasterboard behind the tiles is falling apart due to water getting in.

i have taken all the old tiles and plasterboard off.

i'm going to use aqua panel in the shower enclosure.

my question is what is the right way for me to attach the aquapanel boards to the 2 walls of the shower enclosure? 1 all is breezeblock and the other is bricks??

i was just going to use 'blobs' of bonding on the back of the boards to stick them to the wall!

cheerz
 
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Panel is heavy and as well as using a bonding agent. drill a few holes in the panel and screw fix to the wall. If you arrange to hole in the panel to correspond to mortar joint on the wall it will be so much easier. Make up measuring stick to mark positions of the joints. Have used this type of panel to line my shower and have had no problems. Panel comes in half size sheets for ease of handling...fit lower first! Panel is easily cut with stanley knife and breaks along scoreline. Clamp wooden baton to mark scoreline and keep in place when applying pressure.
 
You can get special aquapanel screws for this purpose: they are very similar to regular wallboard screws (self-tapping, "bugled" pozi-drive head, coarse pitch) and have a corrosion-proof grey finish. I only have experience of aquapanelling stud walls but I would imagine that the screws would work great into breezeblock or bricks... maybe with appropriate 'plugs.
As for the aquapanel itself - amazing stuff. I hung a bit of it in the sea for a week and it was fine!
I used Isopon P38 to "tape and fill" the joins in the board for a shower. keeps the water in the right place.
 
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