Sooner or later, there will necessarily be a moment when the appearance of the bath becomes unpresentable, and it is urgent to solve the problem with its replacement or restoration. Of course, it's much easier to acquire a new thing, but it's much more expensive. You can update the bath yourself, and how to do it, we'll look in more detail below.
How to update the coating of a cast iron bath using liquid acrylic?
- First you need to prepare a bath for restoration . For this, we remove the old enamel with the help of a Bulgarian with a special nozzle with emery circles.
- Next, pour in the bath cleaning powder, rub it on the entire surface and rinse the remains of the enamel shower.
- We proceed to dismantling the drain system. Important note: before the beginning of the process of direct painting of the bath it is necessary to install a container under the drain so that the remaining liquid acrylic does not fall on the floor.
- Before you start the basic work and completely update the bath yourself, you need to make sure that the powder and enamel particles are removed from its surface. To do this, it is again thoroughly wiped and degreased.
- We pass to the painting. You should dilute the liquid acrylic (stakril) in a bucket or any other convenient container.
- When the material is ready, begin to fill the bath. Here's how you can update the cast-iron bath: we pour acrylic into a convenient small mold and pour down from the top.
- The following actions - evenly distribute acrylic on the surface of the bath with a spatula.
- Drying time of acrylic is 36 hours. After that you can install a new drain.
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This is how the bathroom will look like in the end.
It became quite new, and without the extra financial costs. To understand how to update the enamel cast-iron bath, you need to understand the possible ways and choose for yourself the most acceptable of them, which may well be the use of stakryla.