Moving cast iron bath

You stand it on its end and chuck manpower at it.

escape

clearer.

The preferred method has already been established in previous discussions on this group. You build a coffer dam and float it in. Simples.

AWEM

I'm waiting with bated breath for a solution involving an angle grinder.

Failing that, I'd have thought one of those stair-climbing sack trucks would do it.

Crane over the roof?

Or build a very big earth ramp.

Owain

If you get enough ex Mod parachutes you could sew them together and make an enormous Helium balloon to lift it gently up to an upper storey window.

Tim w

Since the fire escape is likely to be "unsympathetic" to enamel, the solution used to be take it up the staircase by turning it upside down with someone underneath crawling on all fours and a person behind and in front with a wide rope securely attached.

Failing that the other method was take out the bathroom window, scaffold outside, hoist up (if it drops do not hang onto the rope :-) and then through the window.

The only other method is re-open the pub, get the people in, the bath in and... then figure out how to get the people out again... you would need a drinks licence of course... so may I suggest using it as a plant pot in the meantime ?

Put simply you need at least 3 people of substantial size since it will weigh 250kg or so - it needs to be grappled which is to say the weight is held against the body. Nearby fire station might be able to help, and fill it for you afterwards... not sure what liquid it would be re AFFF (bubbles would last well)... dry ice... water... or some broadly similar liquid...

I guess no-one had a lighter pressed steel version? :-)

It will go up the stairs and it will fit through the door, you just need a few strong chaps to make it so. Forget hoists, taking windows out, rooves off and all the other bollocks - these things were put in by one man in Victorian times. Forget about the enamel chipping - the plaster / woodwork / everything else, will give way before the enamel does.

EricP is dead right. Muscle is what you need. Half a dozen WHB's.

I've broken one of those with a much lighter load than a cast iron bath. Having two wheel on the ground at each side also makes them not want to turn sharp corners.

Colin Bignell

In that case the OP will need a Victorian man to put it in, some suitable lead pipe for the plumbing, and several small boys (Ooooer missus) to clean it and a maid to fill it and scrub his back as well

If you have or can add a strong enough point at the top, lay boards up the stairs and use a winch to pull it up the slope.

That shouldn't be a problem with a controlled winching, but a wooden or high density foam buffer around the rim would make sure.

Colin Bignell

The traditional way was to have a very strong plumbers mate who would put it upside down over his back and creep up the stairs like a cast iron turtle. Sadly all you get is wimps nowadays.

WHB? Wash Hand Basin? Waste Heat Boiler? Waste Handling Building? I'm sure it isn't the Kansas radio station...

Andy

Well Hefty Blokes?

Owain

Welsh Half Backs

Well hung blokes?

Well Hard Bastards :-)

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

Large catapult at the bottom of the garden. Even simpleser.