Moving a cast iron bath

Remove part of roof; mobile crane?

Seriously, the best of luck. Going in the other direction, angle grinder / sledge hammer is sometimes the best option.

D - "Keep clear of me; I am manoeuvering with difficulty.", I imagine.

I removed a cast iron bath from my father in laws years ago. I heard all about this 'bash it with a hammer' trick, so I tried it. My ears were still ringing a week later and the bath was unscathed!

Likewise - One clout with a club hammer and I was then hunting for my ear defenders!

Ditto. And a bigger hammer.

I think the OP is intending to install the bath, not remove it.

He could break it into pieces, carry it upstairs, then weld it back together?

Or find half a dozen brawny friends to help?

Correct. I install the things that other people remove. My house is a shrine to eBay, and every fixture tells a tale.

Cheers Richard

Isn't this the point in the thread where someone posts a link to "Right said Fred" ?

I keep meaning to install things, but at the moments I just have cupboardsfull :-(

Owain

No - unless it's the repeat!

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "The Medway Handyman" saying something like:

A sledgehammer works, but watch the splinters.

Give some thought to constructing a wheeled "carriage" with some idea to managing on the staircase. Once upon a time BT (or rather the PO before them) devised a lifting equipment to carry large heavy equipment like PABXs (probably very similar in shape/weight to a CI bath!) upstairs.

You need narrow sheets of something stiff and strong enough the protect the stairs, but also slippery. Plywood? Is there a version that comes coated with something slippery, like a plastic? Old formica benchtop would be excellent. More slipperiness makes the rope at the top essential.

teamhillside wrote: ...

One quarter of a cast iron bath is not difficult to take out of the house and the scrapyard does not care whether you have taken an angle grinder to it.

Colin Bignell

imagine.

downstairs

heard all

Chip away a bit of the porcelain with a cold chisel then drill a hole in the cast iron. Then wack with hammer. The hole acts to concentrate the stress of the blow (a 'stress riser') and it will break far more easily.

AWEM

Nowwww heeee tellsssss meeeee :-)

Club hammer worked fime for me.

MBQ

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember geraldthehamster saying something like:

Scaffold tower, block and tackle, slide in the window, sorted.