Enamelling - Does anyone know?

[**bustysinclaire**]

Good Morning all,

Can anyone help with information please?

I want to know how a large tin item could be enamelled? I am not sure whether it even can be, but if yes how and does anyone know where and perhaps even how much it could cost.

I want to buy an old slipper bath tub to actually start using as a bath tub.

Many thanks.

[right-then-petal]

https://www.google.co.uk/#q=how+to+enamel

Here,s Some Info,you can also get enamel paint but do,nt know the prices

[right-then-petal]

Now I Know,Do A Search For enamel spray paint for metal

[bjenkinsbuildersmerchants]

Good morning!

If you Google re-enamelling baths, there are a fair few companies out there that will come to your home and re-enamel your bath.

Make sure you check the reviews though, I've heard some bad reports of the job not being done properly and the enamel coming back off.

Also weigh up the cost - it may make more financial sense to buy a new bath, by the time the cost of the old one and the re-furbishment are taken into account.

Hope you get what you want 

[lhasa.two]

Good advice and absolutely right if it's an IRON bath which is what the old slipper baths were made of but... the OP mentions TIN which I'm not sure would work with enamelling in the same way so suggest checking with the enamelling companies prior to going ahead...

OP, If you do buy an Iron bath and it's going on the first floor make sure your floor joists are strong enough to take the weight as they weigh a ton!

[bjenkinsbuildersmerchants]

Fair point about the tin, missed that bit!

Take into account the weight of the water as well OP!

[cee-dee]

Proper enamelling is vitreous enamel, literally powdered glass with colouring which is fired in a furnace.

Iron baths were enamelled that way as were some "tin" baths which weren't "tin" at all, they were thin sheet Iron.

So called "tin" baths (without enamelling) were made from galvanised (Zinc) sheet Iron which may or may not have had some Tin in with the Zinc.

If the bath is a galvanised one, it can't be enamelled until all the galvanising is removed.

So-called bath "re-enamellers" don't use enamel at all. The process varies from a sort of paint to an epoxy based coating.

There is a company which will use vitreous enamel to re-enamel an old bath but if you need to ask the cost, you can't afford it.

[**bustysinclaire**]

Thanks all,  for links and information.

This is what I have my eye on, better condition though obviously. Lookin on ebay but have only been able to find one that needs re coating. I want it in a ground floor bathroom  on a concrete floor. I would like it to actually use for bathing

[upthecreekyetagain]

We had our cast iron roll top bath re-enamelled about five years ago.  The company that did it disconnected the plumbing, took the bath away and redelivered it about a week later.

Altogether it cost just under £500 - about half the price of buying a similar fully restored Victorian bath which would need plumbing in.

Can't remember the company name offhand, (will see if I can look it up for you), I think they were somewhere in the west country.

[cee-dee]

Was that vitreous enamelling or one of the other processes?

[**bustysinclaire**]

Thanks creeky

As you can see in the picture I posted. There is no plumbing in.

It is just a freestanding tub you would self fill some how and then empty, I would assume bailing it out as there is no plug hole, although I reckon I could have one added. I would assume too the thing is heavy so no tipping it.

I am planning if things go to plan, putting one like this in a corner of a wet room for my use while OH can use the disability wet room. I just cannot face life without a bath tub.  xx

I just love oldy worldy stuff and this would be just up my street. OH reckons I should keep and use it infront of the fire in the living room though lol.

[joe_bloggs*]

Have a look on Gumtree,probably pick a decent one up for around 100 quid

[upthecreekyetagain]

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@cee-dee wrote:

Was that vitreous enamelling or one of the other processes?

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Pukka vitreous enamel.

[bankhaunter]

OH reckons I should keep and use it infront of the fire in the living room though lol.

Nice idea but I think you would need servants for it to be practical.

[duck_a_lorange]

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@**bustysinclaire** wrote:

It is just a freestanding tub you would self fill some how and then empty, I would assume bailing it out as there is no plug hole, although I reckon I could have one added. I would assume too the thing is heavy so no tipping it.

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I think you may not realise just how heavy water is.  A typical 10 litre bucket weighs 10 kg - 22lbs - and will barely cover the bottom of that bath.  You would definitely need at least a hosepipe and plughole...

[**bustysinclaire**]

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@duck_a_lorange wrote:

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@**bustysinclaire** wrote:

It is just a freestanding tub you would self fill some how and then empty, I would assume bailing it out as there is no plug hole, although I reckon I could have one added. I would assume too the thing is heavy so no tipping it.

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I think you may not realise just how heavy water is.  A typical 10 litre bucket weighs 10 kg - 22lbs - and will barely cover the bottom of that bath.  You would definitely need at least a hosepipe and plughole...

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No, it isn't big at all, just big enough for someone to sit in with a raised back. It isn't a full sized slipper bath, the other name for the type I want is a hip bath.

[bankhaunter]

The posh thing to do these days is to have such a bath in your bedroom.

Incidentally I wouldn't recommend you doing a Charles Pooter.

http://www.diaryofanobody.net/diary.php?keyword=bath

[**bustysinclaire**]

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@bankhaunter wrote:

The posh thing to do these days is to have such a bath in your bedroom.

Incidentally I wouldn't recommend you doing a Charles Pooter.

http://www.diaryofanobody.net/diary.php?keyword=bath

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mmmm, lol brilliant.

I actually really enjoyed reading that, have saved the diaries and will read all when I get the time.

I am not a great reader of things like that or novels etc, I am more an educational book reader but that kept me wanting to read.

The way it has been penned has also reminded me of my own father, very fondly, bless him xxx I miss him very much.