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I've just bought a pallet of 4ft wide x 7ft (ish)off-cuts of lino... (about 60 rolls for 8 quid
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There's enough of a particularly nice pattern of an off-white tile effect to cover the wall of my kitchen + enough of a sparkly black effect for the bathroom walls + floor.
so...
The plan is to glue them to 9mm sheets of ply with bostik (? or something else? ) then fasten the ply to the walls with construction adhesive - perhaps, in the bathroom, with 50mm expanded polystyrene insulation behind, with battens.
I plan on sealing the gaps with flexible sealer - which I have to match the "grout" lines in the black - which was how the wet room floor was sealed at my mums.
Is this idea do-able?
I don't do tiling or wallpaper, so it's got to be panels of some type.
I *was* going to go with 8x4 sheets of plastic cladding (at 30 quid a sheet) but it's only available in white at that price - nearer 50 quid a sheet in black.
And at that price, I'd be more tempted to use 0.8mm galvanised sheet (at £16 a sheet!)
it's not going near the cooker!

There's enough of a particularly nice pattern of an off-white tile effect to cover the wall of my kitchen + enough of a sparkly black effect for the bathroom walls + floor.
so...
The plan is to glue them to 9mm sheets of ply with bostik (? or something else? ) then fasten the ply to the walls with construction adhesive - perhaps, in the bathroom, with 50mm expanded polystyrene insulation behind, with battens.
I plan on sealing the gaps with flexible sealer - which I have to match the "grout" lines in the black - which was how the wet room floor was sealed at my mums.
Is this idea do-able?
I don't do tiling or wallpaper, so it's got to be panels of some type.
I *was* going to go with 8x4 sheets of plastic cladding (at 30 quid a sheet) but it's only available in white at that price - nearer 50 quid a sheet in black.
And at that price, I'd be more tempted to use 0.8mm galvanised sheet (at £16 a sheet!)
it's not going near the cooker!