How to paint a bath

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We recently did up our horrible old bathroom ourselves and stupidly have made a bit of a mess in our bath. Our bath ideally could do with being replaced anyway but we have a 5 week old LO so don't have a huge amount of free money (or pretty much none 🙈)

I've tried cleaning it up and got a lot of the mess off, but some of it just will not come off.

I've seen people paint their baths, but can't find out what kind of paint I'd need or how to apply the paint (spray/brush/roller) so any ideas would be fab!

Is it an enamel bath? Are you wanting to paint the outside? Or fix the inside?

If you simply want to paint the outside of a freestanding bath, you can buy radiator/metal paint, prep as per instructions (clean thoroughly with sugar soap, get rid of rust by sanding, prime appropriately) and paint.

If the mess is on the inside of the enamel bath, you can have it stripped and re-enamelled.

Not sure about painting the inside of a bath.

Hiya, sorry I didn't see your reply before!

Our bath panel is cracked so I have a new one coming next week so not worried about the mess on that. It's the mess inside, I cannot for the life of me get it off. I have some radiator paint here left over from doing all of the radiators (this house was an absolute state when we bought it 🙈) so I figured I might just try and paint it with that, what do I have to lose right??

Please don't try to paint the inside of your bath. What is the bath made of and can you post a photo of it showing the paint on it?

If it is a steel enameled bath you can have it resurfaced, if plastic it will need to be replaced.

we had an old clawfoot cast iron bath resurfaced with paint, but it was done professionally, and was some sort of enamel type paint I think....it smelled to high heaven, very fume-y