Depends if its a really old type or one of those which are more or less modern shape from the 1960s. The latter are very easy to smash up with a sledge hammer. I took a big swing at one and was surprised the hammer went straight through and hit my foot... I wasn't wearing reinforced shoes ... but my big toe ouch! Smashing up the bath was easy but had to watch out for the flying shards of enamel.
Wimp :-)
Wife's grandfather used to carry them up alone, on his back, turtle-shell fashion.
MBQ
Now that'd have been an idea, what with the Regatta coming up ;-)
After telling the customer that I hadn't found a taker for it and that I'd brought my sledgehammer in and would be breaking it up I did just that. (It broke quite neatly into more-or-less flat sections - sides, bottom, ends.) Then he came back and said 'oh!' (in a disappointed-sounding way) and said they'd just decided they wanted it for their own place! So I said it was now flat-packed for his convenience transporting it :-)
Why ON EARTH would one ever want to destroy a cast iron bath?!! They are amazingly solid and will last literally a 1,000 years. If the surface is manky, get it refinished in situ for a couple of hundred quid. I think cast iron baths should be protected under the National Trust Act, like listed buildings, not destroyed. Expect the Bath Police around at any moment if you're contemplating such a dastardly act. If I knew anyone who had destroyed theirs, I would disown them. Ostracism is not good enough for such people.
MM
Because it was shabby, pink, and cold not be removed any other way.
As we who have smashed them know..
So? Malaria has been around a lot longer, but I'd still like to see the back of it.
Doesn't work. Need to get the whole thing re-stoved at a cost of several hundred plus transport. The cost of taking an ugly old, cold cast iron bath out of a confined space, getting it stripped and re-made is getting on for a grand. You can get a nice solid acrylic for a couple of hundred.
Or a new cast bath for less.
Actually, I think that every rusty screw in the world should be lovingly restored by sandblasting, building up new metal with a welding torch, and then re-threaded by National Trust executives using nothing more than a hand file.
And then given to Tracy Emin who is always short of a screw.
As long as the rest of us can go down the DIY store and get a packet if infinitely better ones for half a dollar.
There is a reason why most of the really old things around today are really good.
People smashed up the trash years ago, and good riddance.
Philistine! The poor woman is probably making unmade beds like there's no tomorrow.
MM
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