Why overpay the master of the installer when you want to update your old bath, if you can successfully carry out all the work yourself? When your bath is still very strong, but just scratched, the enamel in some places on a cast -iron surface, or rust from old age, then you can either apply an acrylic coating to plumbing, or use the installations of an integral liner from acrylic.
Preparatory work
Be sure to measure the parameters of your old bath, which you still plan to use, you need to check its integrity. It is very important to determine how still it is still strong, whether it proceeds in certain places, is the siphon in order. If there are blocks, then it is better to clean the siphon immediately or replace it, if the bath flows, then it is not suitable for further use and it is better to replace it with a new.
After you measured the parameters of the bath, you need to choose an acrylic insert that can be selected for plumbing parameters in any store.
The lower edge of the tile will need to be carefully knocked down, because the installed acrylic will take a little millimeters in height. In addition, acrylic in 4 corners “fastened” to the bath, and therefore all the edges should be free.
Installation of the liner in the bath
Dismantle the old siphon and clean the bath. Then degrease it, carefully wiping with alcohol or other substance in such cases.
The insert, having tried it to the bath, is cut in the places of drain, overflow and at the edges, if it is necessary to reduce a little size.
Next, take the mounting foam and evenly apply it to the old bath, periodically adding such a tool as ethylene glycol.
After that, the acrylic liner is laid in the bath along with the protective film and with the corresponding justification of the holes, and then slightly “seated” – equals. All holes cooked with acrylic should definitely be treated with plumbing silicone.
In the place where the bath with the wall is joined, you need to treat the tile with a corner or others, in some way. Then install a new siphon, and smear all the joints and places of the connection with silicone.
Next, the bath should be filled with not hot water to the overflowing hole and leave to stand like that for a day.
The next day you need to drain the water from the bath and remove the protective film. That’s all the work! Now you can use a clean and beautiful bathroom.
Advantages of acrylic coating.
A number of significant advantages of acrylic coatings should be noted:
The bactericidal properties of acrylic – thanks to such a substance as acrylic, from which modern plumbing is made, microbes and pathogenic bacteria are least gathering on its surface.
Fortress and durability – acrylic very strong material, and therefore it can withstand a large weight without bursting and not cracking at the same time.
Ease of care – rust is never eaten into such a surface. If unpeeled water flows from your water supply, and such a bath is very easy to wash, because fat or other formations does not accumulate on its walls after bathing.
The only advice is that the acrylic coating should be washed exclusively by gel remedies specially designed for such baths, but not abrasive detergents or powders.
