Joined: 20 Nov 2008 Posts: 15450 Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 09 11:15 pm Post subject: Re-enameling a cast iron bath.
Has anyone done this?
The old cast iron bath here is a bit grotty, but it does seem rather unnecessary to replace it.
Besides, I'm sure you can all guess who would get to carry the old one out.
A bit of googling found me this thread, where some people recommend Tubby bath resurfacing kit, but others do not rate it as a lastingf solution.
The answer may be in there, but there are pages of back and forth, so I thought I'd ask you lot.
We had a company called renubath (or something like that ) do ours about fifteen years ago.
They came and set up a sort of tent around it with a big heat lamp. Sanded it smooth and sprayed the new coating on and "baked" it for a couple of hours. Then we couldn't use it for a week.
It is still going strong apart from a hairline crack around the overflow outlet (which we asked them to fill in). Still white and shiny (when my son remembers to clean it after him! ). Ours is a freestanding roll top jobbie and I think it cost us about �300 but was a good investment.
A friend of our here did two of them with a product that you can roller on. They looked great once finished and still do to this day. I will have a word with him and find out where he got the materiel.
) do ours about fifteen years ago.
). Ours is a freestanding roll top jobbie and I think it cost us about �300 but was a good investment.
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