Solid surface frp or acrylic 4x8 panel with tile look

7 years ago

Hi everyone, I hope your having a great day..

Ive been searching for a solid surface acrylic panel that looks like tile, but I'm not having allot of luck.

I did find a fiberglass Reinforced Panel with a tile look though. It's made by marlite, and available by special order and delivered for $4.54 square foot.

I don't have a problem with the popular shower kits of the month, but most of them are Not acrylic anyway, so why pay the high price? Why not spend your money on a good acrylic shower pan and use frp on the walls, as long as the frp is not the cheap textured pebble look? No you cant re-polish frp, but has anyone found a acrylic panel available to the public that's not super expensive? Or any other alternatives?

Thanks!

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PRO
User
7 years ago
Many manufacturers produce them for proprietary use for their installation divisions. Bath Planet or Luxury Baths use acrylic panels created by BCI Acrylic. They are not targeted to the DIY market.

The nearest user friendly DIY option would be purchasing at least 3 large panels from solidsurface.com They carry the thinner sheets for wall cladding. You would need to rig up a jig and rout any designs that you wanted in them.
rerod
Original Author
7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago
Thanks Cook.

The 1/8" materials at solidsurface.com are better, but more than double the cost of the faux tile FRP, and nothing with a tile "look". Also, they don't offer any 1/8" panels over 48" so you would have a seam for a 60" tub/pan project. Major con..

My dad had a shower with faux tile FRP and its taken me a while to find something similar. His looked great after 15 years, and the sample I just received looks good enough to fool anybody, unless you looked very very closely.

Id love to use the marlite faux tile FRP with a Kohler 48x36 cast iron shower pan, but Kohler doesn't offer one with a curb apron that goes down to the floor. What a shame.. I also found some aluminum trim instead of the cheap plastic..
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