Stained Cast Iron Bath & Soap Dishes Resurfaced

Stained cast iron bath with worn soap dishes circa 1930’s

This is a bath we restored in the Belmont Hill area of London. The bath, tiles and soap dishes were all original. The bath was a really good size and nice and deep.

The bath and one of the soap dishes however had had their enamel coating completely worn away back to the cast iron in places and the bath was also extensively stained and worn over most of its surface.

Large Stained Bath before re-enamelling

In the picture above you can see the staining which is over most of the bath. And around the waste you can black marks. This is where the enamel coating on the bath has been worn back to the cast iron below.

Worn Soap Dish

There were two soap dishes built into the wall above the bath. Like the bath itself, these were made of cast iron which was then enamelled. In the picture above you can see that the enamel on one of the dishes as been worn back to the cast iron through decades of use.

We were able to restore the bath and soap dishes in a day, and they were ready to use the next. You can find out more about our process here.

Here is the result of the bath being re enamelled.

The above picture shows the finished bath with the staining and wear issues all handled.

Lovely bath & Soap dishes after we resurfaced it.

And finally, here we have the bath and both the soap dishes after completion. What do you think?

The Man From U.N.C.L.E

Here is a fun job we ended up getting.

A chap called about an Art Deco Double Ended bath we had for sale. It is a lovely bath. He asked if we had more items such as a basin etc and fortunately we did have. So he decided he should buy the whole suite and then told us it was for a Film Set.

The Man From U.N.C.L.E caption.

As you can imagine the girls in the office got quite excited. Particularly when he told us it was for a set on the up coming movie “The Man From U.N.C.L.E”. Quick google searches ensued and gasps of “OMG David Beckham, Guy Ritchie” etc were heard. There was also the occasional scream.

So watch this space. The team at The Bath Business are all going to see the movie once it is released and we will be looking out for our re enamelled Art Deco Bathroom suite.