Commercial & trade
Hotels, commercial kitchens, high-use spaces. Built to take it.
Plenty of lightweight panel products are chasing the bathroom renovation market. High-use commercial spaces demand more: a solid, fire-rated, impact-resistant lining that keeps performing under daily punishment — and keeps wet trades off your programme.
Durability where it counts
A solid core, not a hollow profile.
Hydrapanel is a magnesium-oxide fireproof board faced in high-pressure laminate — a solid, rigid sheet that resists water, steam, abrasion and the cleaning chemicals commercial spaces throw at it daily.
It's independently fire tested, certified for NZ Building Code compliance, and backed by a 15-year warranty against delamination, rotting and cracking. That's the standard high-use spaces should be specifying to.
- Core
- Solid MgO fireproof board
- Face
- High-pressure laminate (HPL)
- Fire
- Panel 2-S fire rated (BRANZ) · MgO core A1 (SGS)
- Warranty
- 15 years
No wet trades. Time is money.
Take the tilers, plasterers and painters off the programme.
Hydrapanel installs with construction adhesive, direct to framing or over existing linings — no tile adhesive, no grouting, no plastering, no multi-coat painting, and no waiting between trades.
A typical bathroom can be lined in hours rather than the days a tile-and-plaster system takes. Panels cut with standard woodworking tools — no silica dust on site — and after the 24-hour adhesive cure, the wall is finished and ready to use.
Days saved on site, fewer trades to sequence, reduced labour cost, faster project timelines — and a lower total installed cost in many cases.
Hydrapanel tile panels
1–2 days
walls lined and finished
- Installed by the builder, direct to framing or existing linings
- Construction adhesive — no cement, no grout
- 24-hour adhesive cure, then done — no grouting or drying days
- No painting, plastering or additional finishing
Ceramic / porcelain tiling
3–5 days
plus separate trades
- Requires substrate prep and waterproofing membrane
- Tile adhesive, layout and cutting — slow on large formats
- Grouting plus curing time before use
- Separate wet trades to book, sequence and wait on
Typical install-time comparison for a bathroom wall lining. Ask us or your Bunnings Trade rep for pricing on your job.
Off-site & volume construction
Proven in off-site builds.
Hydrapanel systems line Clever Living Truss House builds — walls and ceilings finished in the factory-friendly, transportable way off-site construction demands. An ideal small-home option, and a model for repeatable commercial fit-outs: hotel bathrooms, washroom pods, kitchen and service areas.
Where it's working now
High-use spaces, lined and in service.
Commercial kitchens, restaurants, public and industrial washrooms, healthcare and laboratory spaces, schools and daycares, retail fit-outs, and hotel service areas.
Fitting out a hotel, kitchen or washroom?
Talk to us about volumes, lead times and spec — or grab every certificate and test report from the spec hub.