UPVC Cladding in bathroom - advisable or not?

[Simplez]

So currently the bathroom is being plasterboarded up - the walls are 2.7 high.

The ceiling has been boarded in normal and not moisture resistant plasterboard. I was planning on adding cladding and builder has said - no need to skim it if the ceiling is being boarded?

Wouldn't the steam eat away the plasterboard even if its covered by cladding?

 

[motorbiking]

Will you be fitting an extractor fan? Should be ok if so.

 

[^woody^]

Wouldn't the steam eat away the plasterboard even if its covered by cladding?

Some bloke invented windows that open and another dreamt up extract fans a while back.

 

[motorbiking]

Seems the bloke who says you need fans, didn't know the window bloke.

 

[Simplez]

Will you be fitting an extractor fan? Should be ok if so.

yes an extractor fan - cannot decide whats better - timer or humidity one - in either case will be a quiet one - cannot stand noisy fans.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

yes an extractor fan - cannot decide whats better - timer or humidity one - in either case will be a quiet one - cannot stand noisy fans.

It really need both humidity and timer. No point in it only running when there is moisture in the air and if triggered by PIR it obviously needs to run for a while after a toilet has been used to help extract smells.

Opening windows work, but only if not too windy and on the lee side of a property - you wouldn't want to open the bathroom window to have a gale blowing in, but on the lee side sucking out works OK. In my case my bathroom window is on the east side of the house so on the lee side. Problem is, under the window is the flat roof of my utility room. The flat roof is easy to climb onto, so my rule is that the bathroom window is always checked to be closed, before we go out. My insurance doesn't cover me if a window is left open or door unlocked - not that we have ever been burgled.

 

[Simplez]

It really need both humidity and timer. No point in it only running when there is moisture in the air and if triggered by PIR it obviously needs to run for a while after a toilet has been used to help extract smells.

Opening windows work, but only if not too windy and on the lee side of a property - you wouldn't want to open the bathroom window to have a gale blowing in, but on the lee side sucking out works OK. In my case my bathroom window is on the east side of the house so on the lee side. Problem is, under the window is the flat roof of my utility room. The flat roof is easy to climb onto, so my rule is that the bathroom window is always checked to be closed, before we go out. My insurance doesn't cover me if a window is left open or door unlocked - not that we have ever been burgled.

Touchwood that you never are. It's a horrible feeling -not so much as the theft of items but the violation of your private space.

Well the bathroom window opens out with the kitchen roof below which is easy to climb onto and then into the house via bathroom.

I will look into a fan with a timer and humidistat. Cheers.

 

[Lower]

So currently the bathroom is being plasterboarded up - the walls are 2.7 high.

The ceiling has been boarded in normal and not moisture resistant plasterboard. I was planning on adding cladding and builder has said - no need to skim it if the ceiling is being boarded?

Wouldn't the steam eat away the plasterboard even if its covered by cladding?

No, steam won't eat away at the plasterboard if its a normal, domestic use bathroom.