Bath Mat for Resurfaced Baths

Bath Mat especially made for resurfaced baths.

Ordinary bath mats can stain and damage a bath. When they are used on resurfaced baths they can cause damage to the bath.

We now provide a fantastic Bath Mat made especially for resurfaced baths. This bath mat uses inside-out, cup-free suction that stays firm while being gentle on the bathtub finish.

By simply standing on the mat’s reversed suction rings and putting pressure on them the grip increases. This mat helps prevent slipping & sliding. The upraised design also massages the soles of your feet!

IDEAL FOR YOUNG CHILDREN AND THE ELDERLY: These cup-free, non-slippery bath mats are an essential safety measure in homes with young children or the elderly. Suitable for any residence or commercial setting such as gyms, specialty care facilities, Hospitals, Hotels and Nursing Homes.

THE MAT IS EASY TO CLEAN & ECO-FRIENDLY:  Made from natural rubber with NO toxic PVC vinyl, our recyclable mats are washable in warm water. They are soap scum-resistant, and won’t scuff or leave residue on a re-surfaced bathtub.

PREVENT ACCIDENTS: Our stay-in-place reverse-suction mats measure 30” long x 16” wide. The Mat is also designed to help prevent damage to remodelled porcelain and fibreglass tubs with textured surfaces.

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Chrome Effect Plastic Plug

Chrome Effect Plastic Plug.

When we resurface a bath or basin we often find lots of little chips around the plug hole area caused by the heavy metal plug. Sometimes they can be seen but sometimes we can just feel. The technician will repair them as part of the job.

Off course we do not want the newly resurfaced bath to be destined for the same fate. Sometimes people fit rubber plugs but we prefer the look of a chrome plug.

We provide Chrome Effect Plastic plugs for both the bath and basin. The plug is lightweight so it does not damage the bath or basin in the same way as a heavy metal plug. It still looks good and is very easy to fit to a chain.

You can buy them from our Online Amazon Shop or you can call us on 07967 333 030 to purchase them. Just now only £5 including postage.

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Can I change the colour of my bathroom suite?

Can I change the colour of my bathroom suite?

Absolutely you can. We get some common requests and some not so.

Most people contact us with coloured suites hoping to restore them to white.  The effect of doing this is quite dramatic. The whole bathroom looks completely different. Below is a bathroom suite we resurfaced from a peachy colour to white.

The whole coloured suite

The whole suite resurfaced to white

As you can see the bathroom looks completely different and the suite looks brand new!

We do also get unusual requests such as turning a white suite black or even resurfacing the items to more unique colours.

Below we have a basin and w/c we changed from white to black.

WHITE BASIN RESURFACED TO A GLOSS BLACK

White toilet resurfaced to black

Below is one of my favourites. A white roll top bath resurfaced to cherry pink and grey! It is very unique.

Cherry Pink Resurfaced Interior

Cherry pink Foot with Matt Grey exterior

As you can see from the above pictures really almost anything can be done. The only limit is imagination.

If you are looking at getting your sanitary ware resurfaced to white or indeed any colour then please do contact us at sales@thebathbusiness.co.uk for a free quote or give us a call on 07967 333 03

Worn Cast Iron Bath Resurfaced

Worn Cast Iron Bath Resurfaced

Below are some pictures of a standard sized cast iron bath that we ultimately resurfaced. This was a bath we worked on in Ealing, London. But this style of bath is very common the length and breadth of the country. This style would have  been installed in thousands of homes, especially during the 1950s-60s.

These were pretty good baths and they did the job they were designed for just fine. However, literally after decades of use the wear and tear can really start to show.

The bath below is overall in pretty good condition for its age, except at the tap end. The enamel around the waste is wearing thin and there has been a past issue with the taps resulting in stained and etching from the shoulder at the tap end down into the bath itself. You can get an idea from the pictures below:

Worn Cast Iron Bath

Worn Bath

In such circumstances, resurfacing the bath can give it a new lease of life and take something which has perhaps been letting the rest of the bathroom down into something that lifts the whole room. We are in and out in a day and the bath is usable first thing the next.

Here was how the bath looked when we had finished for the day:

Resurfaced Bath

Resurfaced bath

Chip Repair on a Pressed Steel Bath

Chip Repairs

Of all the repair work we do on Baths, sinks and the like, the most common is repairing a chip or chips on pressed steel baths. Pressed steel baths have many advantages over cast iron. They are lighter, cheaper and easier to install. They also have advantages over most acrylic baths. They are longer lasting generally. There is less flexing and movement of the bath when in use so problems such as putting your knee through the bath or cracks appearing, as sometimes occurs with acrylic baths, does not occur with a pressed steel bath.

But a major dis-advantage of pressed steel is the fact of the enamel being very hard and brittle. So much so that when there is an impact on the surface of the bath, the enamel can’t flex or absorb the impact and often a chip of enamel is knocked of the surface of the bath. Often (in fact usually in my experience) the chip exposes the metal below the enamel. As the metal is treated and black, it really shows up against the enamel.

Here is a picture of a chip on a pressed-steel bath. This was a repair done in a home near Rochester:

Chip on a pressed steel bath

The first issue with a chip is cosmetic. It just looks wrong in a bath and does tend to catch the eye. The second issue is that left long enough, rust can start to form. And that, left long enough, can work its way though the steel of the bath and you can end up with a hole.

The good news is that it does tend to take a long time for this to happen, especially on higher end pressed-steel baths which tend to use a thicker steel in the construction of their baths. But it is best to repair the chip. as soon as possible.

So a repair of a chip on a pressed steel bath serves two purposes: the first is cosmetic and takes the eye of the damages area. The second is that the repair keep the water from being in direct contact with the steel and so prevents rusting or corroding of the metal below.

The chip in this pressed steel bath has “disappeared”

It would seem that for most people, the primary reason to get a  chip repair done is cosmetic. We can certainly rectify this.

The level of repair we go for is that if someone was to walk into the room after we have done the work, they wouldn’t see the repaired area, their eye wouldn’t be drawn to it and catch on it. Often however, we can get it to the point where the customer themselves cannot see the repair or locate where the original chip was located.

The secret to getting an invisible repair, or very close to invisible, is that we make the colour onsite to match the item we are repairing. We don’t use a selection of several shades of white (most repairs, especially of pressed steel, are some shade of white) and go with the closest. What we do is we actually build the colour onsite to match the specific item we are repairing. It can be a lot of work trying to match a colour onsite, especially if the lighting in the room isn’t great and it adds a lot of time to the process but it’s the best way we have found to make repair as good and as invisible as possible