Resurfacing a Coloured Bath

Primrose Bath.

Whilst most the baths we do are white, there are people who have baths on their homes which are coloured.

These baths were often part of a suite of bath, toilet and sink, all done in the same colour. They tend to be very good quality bathroom suites and therefore worth keeping.

And as long as the toilet and sink are not bashed or chipped, they tend to remain looking pretty good for many decades.

However, the bath will often start to get “bleached out” around the base of the bath. The top of the bath can look like new but the base of the bath starts to look like it has faded and gotten dull.

An example of this was a bath we were asked to resurface that was part of a primrose coloured suite in a little village near Slough.

As you can see here in the picture above, the base of the bath looks a lot less shiny than the top part of the bath. You can hopefully make out that the base is a bit whiter or bleached. It was a bit dull the day the picture taken so some details not showing up so well.

There is also fairly prominent staining in the waste area of the bath. You can see the staining better in the picture below.

Just to complicate matters a little, the original toilet had been broken and replaced with another which wasn’t quite the same colour as the bath and sink. It was slightly darker and greener. You can see this colour difference in the top picture.

We could have matched the bath to the colour of the toilet, and in some ways this made a lot of sense as the toilet and bath were close to each other and so your eye naturally compared them.

However, the customer wanted the original colour of the suite kept. A colour was built up onsite, matched to the bath and the sink.

The next day the bath was prepared (masked up and limescale removed, etc) and the colour was applied to the bath.

In the picture below you can see the result. It was a lot sunnier that day, so everything looks a lot lighter! However, you can see the colour of the bath matches the sink on the top right hand side.