If the enamel on your bath is getting worn, rough, stained or just hard to keep clean, then you are probably searching for a way to sort this out, and you’ve ended up looking at this page on Bath Enamelling.
People use the term “Bath Enamelling or “Bath Re-Enamelling” to mean two different services.
One of these is the spraying of a new coating onto your bath. This is normally done without removing the bath. The taps, overflow and the waste are left on the bath. The tiles are not touched. And the job is generally completed in a day.It is very hassle free and a lot less disruptive than removing the bath. When people talk about having your bath re enamelled in situ, this is the process they are talking about.
This is the service we deliver. It can be confusing for the customer as this service is called Bath Enamelling as well as Bath Re Enamelling
We can take an old worn bath that is rough to the touch, hard to clean, has lime-scale and perhaps covered in stains with a dirty tide mark and transform it into a bright, shiny bath that is smooth and easy to clean.
We don’t need to take out the bath to do this. We do not need to remove or loosen the taps, the overflow or the waste.
We get the job done in a day and the bath is fully usable the next.
The rest of the bathroom is not put out of action, and as soon as we have left it can be used. So if you have a busy household you can be assured that when the kids return from school and others return from work the shower, toilet and washand basin are all available for use.There will be no need for you to re-tile, re-grout, re-plumb or re-fit taps, etc.
As you can see from our pictures the resultant finish of a re enamelled bath is a deep, long lasting high gloss finish. One of the advantages of re-enamelling the bath is that the surface is not prone to the chemical damage that can occur with the original enamel bath. The re enamelled surface is resitant to many modern chemical cleaners. It is also very easy to clean. Another advantage of re enamelling is durability.
Sometimes the bath has been really badly etched by chemical cleaners or even water draining over a long period of time. The etching can be as lines running down the bath or along the bottom of the bath. In this instance even though we can re-enamel the bath and have it looking great the original cast iron bath has been damaged and this etching will be noticeable. Some people don’t mind as it is part of the character of the bath. However if you do wish to have any etched area as smooth as possible you would need to let us know.
Situations like these where the enamel has been eaten away can be sorted out but it would not be done as part of a regular enamelling job, which can be done in a day. Where there is etching like this and the customer wanted it to be as perfect as possible we would require two days to re-enamel the bath and therefor the costs are more.
Bath Enamelling is also used to refer to a service where the bath is removed, sandblasted to take off existing enamel, and then the bath has new vitreous enamel melted over it at a very high temperature. Vitreous enamel is just coloured glass. The temperatures required to do this can be in excess of 800 degrees celsius. For this reason the job cannot be done in situ and your bath has to be taken away. Even a workshop facility cannot deal with this unless they employ a furnace. This really is “enamelling” in the fullest sense of the word.
We don’t deliver this service as we do not have a furnace. However, on some occasions a person wants the bath vitreous enamelled. In this instance we have organised this from picking up the bath from the client getting taps and wastes supplied, painting the outside and returning the bath back fully restored. Do let us know if this service is required.
If a bath company says they are going to enamel your bath or even re-enamel your bath in situ or in a workshop then they mean they will be putting a new surface on your bath. It will not be vitreous enamel.
The procedure for Bath Re-Enamelling is as follows:
The bath-room is fully prepared. Silicon seal is removed from around the bath before we begin.
The bath is then chemically cleaned. This ensures all oils, shampoo residues etc are cleaned off the surface of the bath and the bath now has a smooth, clean surface ready for re-enamelling. We then mask your bathroom to protect the tiling and flooring.
The enamel is then primed
Next we spray on the new surface Generally 3 to 4 coats are applied. The correct thickness is applied to ensure a high gloss and durable finish. Too many coats would result in cracking. The surface applied is designed to withstand very high temperatures as well as be resistant to many chemicals in modern cleaners.
After re-enamelling, we can sand and polish the bath to give it a smooth, even finish that’s very easy to clean. We call this our Rolls-Royce finish.
Masking is removed and new silicon sealant is re-applied as necessary
The bath is ready to use again within a few hours of re-enamelling.
A similar procedure is also applied when re-enamelling sinks, wash hand basins, shower trays etc. Some steps are not always necessary, such as silicon sealant, but otherwise the preperation and re-enamelling are the same.
We cover the South East of England, including London and the Home Counties. We also cover Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield and Blackpool.
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