I don't really understand why a steel bath should look better than a
(re-enamelled) cast iron one. What's the difference from the outside?
Umm. The ral issue is teh 'in situ' bit.
The correct way to re-enamel is to coat the bath in a ceramic glaze, and
fire it in a huge furnace., In situ consists in painting and fillig with
typically epoxy resin - in short, making an acrylic bath out of a steel one.
My final thoughts on baths are
(i) cast irion is cold, chips, rusts and lookes orrible,
(ii) Cheap pressed steel isslightly less cold, but otherwise still as
bad, and flexes badly.
(iii) Cheap plastic is warm, but otherwise as bad as cheap steel
(iv) large thick cast resin baths are the best of the lot. If they chip,
at least the resin fix is using the same material the bath was made of.
PS I am of the minority that thinks that victorian plumbing is ghastly,
ugly and all plumbing and baths bottoms are about as attractive as a
nudist camp of the terminally obese, and should be screened on the
grounds of offending public taste as much as possible.
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