Change colour of Enamel bath

Its time to modernize my bathroom. The bath is a pink enamelled tub, which I rather like and would prefer to keep, I've been told by the missus that It can stay only if the colour is changed to white.

Is this possible, at a push I might get away with keeping the pink if its somehow " touched up " and regains that " new " appearence, but I reckon that she's going to insist its changed to white..

Any help gratefully received..

.. Tony

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Tony
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You can get someone in to renamel the bath to white. The council do this rather than change a perfectly good bath.

-- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

Reply to
The3rd Earl Of Derby

Listen to the missus. Pink baths are grotesque and will cut thousands off the resale value of your house. Buy a nice new white bath and stop being such a no-taste skinflint.

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Geoffrey

In news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com, Geoffrey scribed:

It never ceases to amaze me how some will resort to denigrating others, whilst simultaneously expecting them to accept their wisdom.

Nigel

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nrh

Well you really are easily amazed.

If I were the OP's missus I would not be suggesting a replacement bath I would be insisting and if I were looking at a house to buy a pink bath would turn me right off.

It surprises me that anyone doing a bathroom refurb would consider, even for a few seconds, hanging on to a pink bath but I do realise that many men have No Taste.

Changing the colour of the bath to white could be a temporary fix but, like painting tiles (which always *look* painted), not a permanent one.

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Geoffrey

Changing colour... o You can spray a bath with a 2 part mix

---- Tubby is the DIY epoxy roller one

---- Bath Doctors or such use a spray formulation o This is not a true enamel like old cast iron cookers

---- that is essentially glass, hard as nails & near chip proof

---- chip proof unless you plan on bathing with cast iron pans

They do not like... o Anything dropped on them - it's non baked paint o Dripping taps - cause lifting around the plug-hole o Hot before cold water in them - bubbles under the tap area o Bath mats - it's non baked paint

Check the dimensions of your bath... o You may find a steel enamelled (real enamel) bath off the shelf o They are quite cheap (200ukp) and as good as cast-iron

Acrylic, fibreglass etc are ghastly versus cast-iron/steel baths.

You may find a cast iron bath only comes out with a sledge hammer, ie, shattering it, because they were fitted with the windows unfitted :-)

Reply to
Dorothy Bradbury

My Kawaldi (sp?) enamelled steel bath was under £100, about 2 years ago.

Reply to
Andrew Gabriel

Cheap enough to get a spare for the rubber duck :-)

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Dorothy Bradbury

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