Please tell me there's a good alternative to using them for the wet areas of my bathroom.
Preferably something I can apply as if it were a paint or similar.
I FUCKING HATE TILES
Please tell me there's a good alternative to using them for the wet areas of my bathroom.
Preferably something I can apply as if it were a paint or similar.
Linoleum is a common and cheaper alternative
>Linoleum is a common
as a painter I've been in many bathrooms in freedomland, and I've never seen linoleum on shower walls.
If you want a trashy bathroom just buy a full enclosure made of fiberglass. You'll have the nicest shower in the trailer park.
Why do you hate tiles, easy af.
Hate scrubbing those things, they have no support so it flexes and wobbles as you push the brush into it.
OP is dumb though. Porcelaine tile is the king of water enclosures, but they'd rather roll some flaking garbage onto their drywall and call it a day.
Took me a minute to realize you’re not op and we’re talking about the fiberglass shower shells.
I was like, wtf kind of tile wobbles
they are trash, they break if it has a fricking shampoo bottle fall on its floor, and are a royal b***h to clean if scratched even with melamine sponges and cleaner.
Is it possible to get one of those made of stainless steel or something? Like for Patrick Bateman purposes.
Do you have a Patrick Bateman salary?
Just put one of these in for $10k
Why can’t we have the full bathroom units like this in America? All I want is an enclosed bathroom with a drain the middle. Frick wood and plaster and shit in a bathroom
I assure the US is the main consumer of this kind of bathroom
We do, they’re great for rental units like apartments because you just throw it in and walk away. If it gets bad you rip it out and throw in a new one. Takes like half a day
We do idiot. Go to any hardware store
>100% sealed, literally cannot get mold
honestly prefer it over tile tbh
idgi, why can’t it get mold? you will inevitably deposit detritus and the poor circulation from being enclosed will only promote mold growth
I'm literally looking into this but with a tub for my own house since it's bulletproof. No tiles or grout to clean, no chance of getting cracks or grout flaking off, affordable, looks nice, plenty of shelf space. I might rent my house out one day and I feel like it would be a really low maintenance shower
I’m with ya halfway, but here’s the protip: drop the fricking $90 on a cheap 7” wet tile saw and it will make life easier. I’ll break more than $90 worth of tile with the goddamn snap cutter if I don’t have the table saw.
They make snap cutters for the 24x48 tiles too.
Is that rendered on a playstation one?
Truck bed liner
pressed concrete
just use it in conjunction with a lot of glass and metal so it doesn't look too prisoney
Sheet metal and solid surface are two options, they make the same stuff used for kitchen countertops in thinner sheets for wet area walls like shower stalls and tub surrounds.
https://blog.solidsurface.com/make-corian-solid-surface-shower-tub-walls/
The cheap ass version is FRP/styrene/PVC/etc. shower wall sheets
https://www.lowes.com/pd/48-in-x-8-ft-Embossed-White-Wall-Panel/1000174771
If you want something you can apply like paint you can use epoxy or linear polyurethane or some other I dustrial coation over a stable substrate, or....paint. You just have to maintain it in the face of relentless moisture and deal with what happens when it fails and leaks even a tiny bit.
For that reason, I suggest you go for pure copper with folded and fully soldered seams on a custom pan like picrel.
You could go with back-lit agate or maybe malachite with gold accents, or amethyst (pic related)
https://www.semipreciousstoneslabs.com/
Holy shit this is what Mega Millions winners spend their money on?
dam thats bomb, i mean i would choose lapis
but yes gemstone tile is deff rich tier
granite is actually pretty dope if you find nice one
lapis is damaged by water
dam. your right maybe
cause their pyrite imedded in flakes sizes
so it could rust
well you cant go bad with a nice piece of granite chunks of quarts in it
thats ill as frick. haters gonna hate. I'd have a whole bathroom complete with the rainfall ceiling, sauna function, a gold toilet with matching bidet, along with the backlit stone if i was rich.
This screams the indolent jogger who spends his money on frivolous items and such. Basketball Americans, mostly...
the image is from a stonefitting business in Turkey.
If it were turkish it would have a cage or handcuff fittings for your Malaysian ladyboy.
solid concrete
Then paint it
i did this, its called a plaster shower its an actual style. Its really fricking hard to make it look good, but its very easy to make a functional shower
You can buy the panels you can stick on the walls. Come with a beadlock corner joining strips aswell.
I don’t know what they call it in your country but it’s called seratone here. Comes with different patterns, finishes. Marble, polished concrete, geometric shapes etc.
Use natural slate
Don't. It will hold onto soap and other junk. Use a shiny porcelain tile and seal your grout.
t. the stone expert from all those threads.
you can use fricking saltillo tile
its really forgiving
and its basically red brick
like spanish style
There are giant pvc sheets to simulate various materials and patterns
You could do some kind of river rock like picrel. It's nice on the feet, and good traction.
I grew up in a house with that shower floor and my god it was good.
I had this strange uneven hexagon tile in my last house, some brown Spanish style. The first month or two it hurt my feet walking on it barefoot, the wife always hated it because it never looked as clean at white marble. But I liked it on my feet after those first few months.
These are the best
That makes the caveman side of my brain scream in joy, I WILL have this in my home.
Damn that looks like a pain in the ass to clean.
>hot water
>soap
>good firm sponge that can mold to the shape of the stones and grout whilst still having enough strength to resist deforming so pressure can be applied between the stones
Which is indeed a pain in the ass when compared to anything else.
An afternoon of pain tiling vs years rubbing stones
i had river rock floor in my bathroom growing up, super comfy
They do tiles now same size a sheet of gyproc at 2400x1200. 5mm thick. So you can do an enclosure only having seems at the corner with no grout lines. Cost about £1500 a piece though, so not cheap. Add in a glass panel door and your easy £4000 with all materials before installed. I've seen them being fitted few times and wouldn't recommend it DIY either with the equipment used
These massive plates are harder to properly install though, if you hate tiling you probably don't have much experience installing them.
>I FRICKING HATE TILE
SPOKEN LIKE A TRUE TILELAYER OF 20 YEARS
sheet vinyl?
Stainless steel/copper sheet/aluminium sheets is gigabased and redpilled, I do not give a duck what anyone says.
Don't get mouldy, don't crack and fall apart, easy to install, last basically forever etc
Prisonmaxxed and felony pilled
ah yes, I too like to feel like I'm a pig in a slaughterhouse being cleaned for cutting.
>muh fee fees trump practicality
Show bobs
Is that a concrete floor?
Not a big fan of the concrete shower floor, however its an easy fit with a rubber mat. Pretty based mate.
I have seen the light. How do you join corners tho
realized the whole thing can be bent and welded as a premade unit. with mounting points for comfy wood floor panelling that is also easy to replace. oh god this is the light
no ones going to bend you a massive stainless panel like that, and if they did it wouldnt be 100% perfect and it would look like total shit. And it would cost thousands. I had to get a tiny custom duct made for my hvac system 12" long and it was almost $200 out of the shittiest cheapest sheet metal possible. I cant even imagine how much they charge to work stainless
Just...do it yourself
This also works for kitchens btw, theres a reason every high output one that makes thousands of dishes a day looks like this. Tiles completely btfo
A bet a tweaker would think he died and went to heaven after he breaks into this house. All that metal waiting to be scrapped, that's a couple months worth of meth.
>7M holder
>only 2 big power sockets and 1 small
>5M utilized
why the frick
what if you scratch it
that would take some serious moronation to pull off and you can just buff it out pretty easily. Warping / dents would be a much bigger concern if it wasnt properly supported or secured to the wall
you just need a brake (but not a standard one thats several thousand, some kind of frickhuge industrial one that handles 8 ft panels in odd positions), TIG welder and 20 years experience and then it might look passable but probably not
full smooth polycarbonate corner encolusres seem pretty sweel not grout super smooth surface hard for bacteria ti stick
I only like bathtub showers
If I won the lottery and bought a million dollar house, I'd have a tub shower put in. I really hate showering in anything else.
I agree with you anon. It must be my middle class upbringing they are max comfy for me.
milkboard is your answer
there's microcement, you can put very thin layers and it won't crack and is also waterproof
wouldn't diy tho
no such thing as waterproof cement. Just do a paint on waterproof membrane and top it with plaster like a normal person instead of paying out the ass for meme product of the week that wont exist when you find all the mold
No that poster, but micro-cement is just a given name for the product. Its got additives and shit in the mix which make it suitable and rated for use in wet areas like shower cubicles and bathrooms in general. Also can be tinted to different shades and colours. It can look really slick in a we designed b0VWTDJathroom
I think this thread is a testament to how tiles are simply the best solution for a bathroom.
Ahem
The wagie cage is evolving.
I like the stainless steel idea the most so far, so you can plug up a sauna steamer with a one way lock and boil annoying guests like Bateman would