Flooring – Should I glue down sheet vinyl

Bending cheap vinyl tile 90 deg to fit the join between the bath panel and the floor will result in cracks and leaks, and your wooden floor will be wet again.

Lay the vinyl tile on the floor up to the bath panel just as if you thought that brown plastic was tres chic. Use recommended adhesive and seal all the joints, tile to tile and tile to plastic.

Then, after that job is finished, use something like contact cement and more vinyl tiles to decorate the bath panel to match the floor. If the join between the vinyl floor ant the bath panel is waterproof, you don't have to worry about leaks in the decoration.

You might want to experiment with various contact cements and glues to find one that will hold the tiles but can be removed without damaging the brown plastic. That way, if you don't like the way it comes out, you can undo the decoration and try to paint the panel.

I've used that material before and cut it with a sharp razor blade and a clamped straightedge. I didn't use scissors because like you said, there's really no way to get a good clean cut.

I agree that something like a router will generate too much heat, and could just not cut it at all because of it's rubbery flexibility.