Re-enamelling a cast iron bath
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Looks to me like it could be a date stamp or a serial number. You could try contacting Armitage Shanks to see if they know anything about it. They have been making bathroom fittings since the early 19th Century. If you do a search on Yell you should be able to get their number. Cheers, Gary.
Bath is nominally white but with interesting blue-green coppery colour below the hot tap suddenly (possibly related to having the whole house re-plumbed), and needs to look white all over again. I've read every post and definitely want to pay someone to do it, despite TubbyUK's best and consistent efforts to reach 1million sales of the DIY product! Slaphead, have you got your own bath yet?!
Afraid Cumbria is a bridge or two too far for me :-)
If you give our office a ring 0800515487 they will be able to help. Cheers
least 3 companies in Dorset , I believe one is actually in Corfe Mullen . Good luck. Andy
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I was just wondering if you found someone you would recommend? Many many thanks, Kate
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I think bath polishing has been covered somewhere in this huge thread but basically polishing will not give your bath its shine back. If the bath is badly stained then it is likely that it will have to be cleaned with some fairly heavy duty cleaners which are likely to dull the surface anyway. The options are to have the bath taken away and re-enamelled or to have someone re-surface the bath in Situ. I run a re-surfacing business in Surrey and would be happy to talk to you about your bath and give you an idea of the options. My office number is 0870 0667157. If I am not there you can leave a message and I will call you back. Regards, Gary.
Yet another 'dropped tool' in a steel bath- this seems to be now the norm for plumbers , tilers etc . I get at least two calls a week to repair newly installed baths. When are these guys gonna learn to protect the bath with bubblewrap or a sheet or something before starting work??..anyway - thats the rant over ! My initial reaction is is to ask why you don't insist the person who dropepd the object replaces the bath? But I guess you dont want to have to re-do tiling etc? I would recommend you use Renubath for the chip repair. They actually have a very durable and (unfortunately) secret material which is very close to the properties of enamel, and is welded in to the chip using very high heat. The colour matching is such that teh repair is virtually , if not totally invisible . Other resurfacers would simply fill the chip and airbrush over using a white/degraded white acrylic or epoxy paint etc . -this may look fine but wont last very long- a couple of years if you're lucky Expect to pay around £100. Hope this helps:-)
I am not renubath . Nor do i use Acrylic or epoxy coatings , so you should always qualify your generalisations with " as far as I Know ." P. S . How much warranty comes with a brand new steel bath .? 12 months .?
I'm offering my humble opinion, you offer yours...and no, I don't feel the need to qualify anything.... PS ..I don't know:-)
We charge £55 for a chip repair. We are based in the Goole / Leeds areas of yorkhire. I once delivered a bath to Hove on the south cost and found a chip in it on delivery - the local resurfacers in Hove charged £120 to fix it, and with no guarantee! The further up North you are the cheaper it will be. Jon AJ Surface Solutions / Better Bathrooms 01405 869305
Do you do jobs in Kent and perhaps if so you could quote me. Is there anyone else who can recommend a good tried-and-tested bath restorer.
I've only just joined Preloved after seeing this thread. I'm moving into a new house soon and the bathroom needs completely gutting, one thing we are considering is getting a rolltop bath, however as first time buyers we are on a very tight budget. As new repro ones are pretty pricey I was considering getting an old one and resurfacing it or getting it resurfaced. I've read this thread up to about page 7 (before running out of lunch hour) and the resurfacing techniques seem pretty similar to respraying a car, ie acid etch, prime, topcoat. As it happens I'm about to begin respraying a classic car soon so I might have the equipment to do this myself. There has been a bit of banter with TubbyUK and others suggesting that the tubby kit does not contain the same products as used by the pros, so I guess my question is really what are the products to use, ie what kind of primers and topcoats are best? In the car world the usually preferred topcoat is the polyurethane stuff as it is incredibly durable and requires fewer coats is this the same with baths (I've heard it refferred to as the stuff cowboys use in earlier posts)? Just for interest the reason why positive pressure breathing kit is needed with this stuff is not only the isocyanide, as paint can now be bought without it. It is because unlike other paints that dry in contact with air (meaning by the time you breath anything in it's dry and just dust) polyurethne uses a catalytic hardener so if you breath in spray particles they will stay liquid until after they enter your lungs and upon hardening the will form a nice plastic cast of your insides. Suffice to say plastic coated lungs don't work too well.
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