Wickes specialist plasterboards as good as Knauf?

[ChrisKingston]

I've been recommended Knauf for specialist plasterboards:
- acoustic
- aquapanel
- tile-backer

I'll need all of these in the project I'm doing. But Wickes is much more convenient for me, and they sell own-brand equivalents of these boards, for roughly the same price I think.

Is it worth going out of my way to get Knauf, or is it all much of a much? In particular, are Wickes' versions of all three (acoustic, moisture-resistant andt tilebacker) ok?

Thanks,
Chris

 

[Richard C]

Personally I prefer British Gypsum but Wickes won't be making this stuff themselves; the two big PB manufacturers (I don’t actually know of any others) are Kanuf & BG so it’s odds on it will be made by one or the other. Wickes do sell Aqapanel so unsure if they stock their own brand cement board; not sure what you mean by tile backer as Aquapanel is a tile backer board but there are other brand varients!

If your tiling, I would be more cautious about buying own brand tiling materials