Acrylic Baths

They will be brought down in thickness anyway round the plug hole but thicker is better. Insulation irrelevant. 6mm AFAICR was "standard" 8mm a good one.

"Thomarse" wrote

Some vendors sell coated baths. This adds thickness after the forming process. The advantage of this (so I was told when I bought mine) is that starting with a thicker material before forming can still result in significantly thinner areas where serious moulding work is performed. The coating on mine is called aquanite (manufacturer Aquabeau) and gives a

HTH

Phil

Since you cannot brace a bath that isn't encased without it looking ugly, get the very thickest you can afford.

I have to say that I find the ruddy things and expensive and ugly waste of money, and always build my baths in where I can get some bracing round them.

I suppose my ideal bath would be cast in concrete in situ with heating pipes built in, and would be the bathroom radiator as well. ;-)

Then I'd tile it with sexy tiles. Bit like a swimming pool in fact..