Restoring Antique Sinks
Once resurfaced or re enamelled your bath can be ready to use again within a few hours
We can also resurface your basin, toilet or shower tray in situ
Did you know you can change th colour of your bath? We can resurface it to any colour of your choice.
We can resurface your whole bath-room suite in situ in any colour of your choice
We can restore you antique taps & cast iron feet. We can also nickel & chrome plate your taps & cast iron feet.
If you are lucky enough to have a period sink or wash-hand basin in your home, you may have noticed that there is crazing in the glaze of the porcelain, especially where there are little depressions built into the sink to take bars of soap.
Although this crazing does not seem to affect the integrity or strength of the sink, it can be unsightly and the crazed areas are often quite dirty looking, even when they've been thoroughly cleaned.
When company's talk about resurfacing, re enameling, refinishing or reglazing your bathroom sink they basically mean the same thing. All of these terms simply describe a way of restoring the sink to new without removal. We can resurface ceramic sinks as well as toilet, showers and of course enamel baths.
At The Bath Business we can resurface or re enamel your period sink without removal. After re enamelling or resurfacing, your sink will have lost the crazing in its surface and it will now be very easy to clean. We can also re enamel the sink pedestal too if there is one.
Many antique or period sinks also have cracks in them, quite in addition to any crazing. The crazing is just in the glaze of the sink, and is made up of lots of very short little lines, usually about the width of a finger nail or less.
A crack, on the other hand, has gone through the porcelain itself. It will tend to look like a line across the sink and can be inches long. Sometime there can be several lines radiating out from a single point.
We can resurface a sink with a crack in it, as long as the crack itself is stable and not still growing. If you are unsure whether or not it has stabilized out, then the best option is probably to put off resurfacing it for a while and just observe the sink over a period of time, looking to see if the crack gets any bigger. Once the crack is stable and you're sure it isn't growing it should be fine to resurface the sink.
We can also resurface the sink in a different colour, for example we can resurface a green sink and change it to white.
It goes without saying we frequently restore antique cast iron baths,bidets, and toilets as well as sinks or wash hand basins.
If you have an antique bath or bathroom suite contact us for a free quote.
Beautiful French Antique Wash-hand Basin Re-enamelled in our Workshop
One of our clients came to us with two beautiful French decorative wash-hand basins on pedestals and a decorative lavotory he wanted resurfaced. They also had unusual tap covers which also needed resurfaced. They were embossed and as the wash-hand basins were also quite large they were particulary impressive. The only problem was they were pink! Our client couldn't live with that colour and wanted them to be white. In one of the pictures you can see the lavotory in the background prior to resurfacing. That picture gives you an idea of the colour prior to resurfacing. He asked us to resurface the sinks first and if he liked them we were to resurface the lavotory as well. As you can see the sinks, pedestals and tap covers look fantastic after resurfacing. Not suprisingly the client asked us to do the lavotory for him also and he will be collecting the item for instalation shortly.
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