Laminated Shower wall panels

Hi. I'm having my bathroom refurbished. Instead of having tiles on the shower walls, I'm going to have 10mm laminated wall panels large enough so there will be no vertical joints (other than the corners etc.

See here for what I mean.

Not really sure whether this is a plumbing question, but since taking the old tiles down will destroy the substrate they are currently on, instead of replacing them with the cement based boards there, can I just use ordinary plasterboard instead? And if I can, then do they need to be skimmed?

I'd use ordinary plasterboard, but I'd PVA it just to be safe, that website looks good, give their tech line a ring

Take tiles off, cut out old plasterboard/substrate, replace with WBP ply, use yellow gripfill to stick panels to ply.

Do not do not use plasterboard, cement based boards hardie backer is ideal for the showering area. Round the bath moisture resistant is good. Ordinary plaster board every where else.


That product would be expensive to do the whole bathroom and if you don't do the whole bathroom in it it might look odd, a bit like it's patched or its an after thought.

It all depends on you budget and what kind of finish you want ......If it's a long term job ...then it's tiles off, boarded, skimmed, tiled done properly it will last years......and no plasterboard in the showering area !!!!!