Previous owners left bath in a terrible state 😢

[InNeedofaBath]

I’m absolutely desperate for a good bath after cleaning this filthy house that they left behind.

Unfortunately they left the bath almost as unclean as they left the toilet. 😧

Not sure how well the photo shows but it’s deep scratches with engrained dirt, all the way down. I think possibly they washed their dog in the bath.

A new bathroom is going to have to be on the agenda. (We’ve had four quotes in, all £9.5-9.9k! 😦)

Until we find a magic money tree with £10k on it, is there any way at all to do something about the state of this bath?

As far as I know, we aren’t getting the capitals on new paragraphs back - following the recent re-platforming, it is apparently impossible to programme them back in.

I think you can only get a full bathroom refurb for 3k if you had a time machine and travelled back a few years.

No chance of getting it for that price in my area

You can paint your bath with enamel paint. Cost us £30. Couldn’t be used for a week but then good as new.

£1k for fitting a bathroom, plastering, tiling, the lot? Twice that, more like.

Unless you do what we did in our first home, which was to do everything ourselves (badly!) except for the actual plumbing-in of the pipework.

No, no chance at all.

we were hoping for closer to 8 as the bathroom is small.

c’est la vie.

unbelievable about the capital letters! There must be a way! 😁

The bath is 1/3 full of hot water and lots of Oxy so let’s see how it goes…

£10K???? 😱

Fuck - I've just spent £1.5K on mine. That's not everything, but even so - £10K is absolutely taking the piss!

Does that include labour? Where are you?

I'm in the north and the quotes I've had recently have been in the £10k zone. Admittedly we are moving a few things rather than a straight like for like replacement of the suite, but still....

I would love to be able to get it cheaper.

We did ours recently for 1.7k. Took it back to brick and replaced the floor even. To be fair, I bought a vintage suite on eBay for £35 so saved a lot of money!

We're just about to have a downstairs toilet extension built for 10k.

This is May 2022 prices. I’d be getting some more quotes if I were you.

www.checkatrade.com/blog/cost-guides/new-bathroom-cost/

I think a really good clean and then special enamel paint for baths would give you an acceptable finish for a while, til you can afford to sort it properly. Impressive amount of damage for 18months wear!

I've never tried it but I watch a lot of cleaning videos on Tik Tok and someone cleaned a bath 100x worse than this with bar keepers friend.

I've seen that website, but it doesn't tally with the costs quoted in the various trade brochures I've got. (I.e. cost of the furniture and suite, not including labour)

Midlands.

New bath and sink, walls redone so lav and radiator moved and put back, new shower screen... nothing fancy. And yes that's with labour. They got the cast iron bath out in 38° heat - bloody stars ✨😁

CIF cream, or any cheap equivalent, Morrisons do a savers version which is just the same. Works a treat, is also great on uPVC doors and windows, it gets everything off.

If you can't get it clean just replace the bath now, then when you save enough to redo the bathroom you can still reuse your new bath

There isn’t anything wrong with the toilet or the tiles… surely just have the toilet refitted and change the tub if you don’t want to reseal!

I’d do bio washing powder in a bath of hot water, wipe it down, then do baking powder + washing up liquid as paste with a Sonic Scrubber followed by a steam clean.

I recently spent 12 hours doing that particular combination when I moved into my new house.

Labour costs? Easily total 5K and I’m Up Norf.

Bar keeper's friend is excellent on grimy stuff. You can use metal polish to gently polish out smaller scratches and try filling the deeper ones. They probably replaced a knackered bathroom thinking it would help sell the house in the not too distant future and bought cheap fittings which haven't stood up to family life.

Just replace bath in the meantime. £150 + installation. Or Cif and a scrubbing brush.

Absolutely no way is that a £3k job, I can only think that the poster hasn’t had a bathroom fitted for a number of years. I don’t think any amount of cleaning will improve it OP, it needs replacement, you won’t get these scratches out. It was probably a cheap or second hand bath to begin with, to scratch so badly.

I'm not really seeing the problem here.

I say from a 30yo bath that I thought was unusable on the first night we moved here, but scrubbed up fine. It isn't fashionable but it is comfortable and cleans me.

Don't rush to replace everything in week 1, just settle in a bit.

thr world has enough consumerism already

Cif
Bar keepers friend

Poor you. If that’s how they’ve fitted the toilet, what are the electrics like??