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As this forum can normally provide answers for most things..........

I'm currently trying to select a new bathroom suite for my new house but don't know whether to go for an acrylic or steel bath. I've always been used to acrylic baths but if anyone has any recommendations or can tell me the advantages and disadvantages of each kind I would be extremely grateful.
 
The acrylic ones are lighter, of course, and can come in colours if you don't want plain white. I would think it's largely then a matter of cost, and overall aesthetics. Steel baths are the only types to have for period styles and really big, deep, soaking, and if they're on attractive feet they can really make a superb impact in a large bathroom. There again, when filled with water and the bather, they can also make a superb impact on the kitchen below if the floorboarding is weak!
 
There is a downside to acrylic baths - and, more so, shower trays - as they tend to flex and you can find that all your seals around the edge come away.

I think, Kri, you might be thinking more of cast iron baths, which are the really heavy, "standalone" ones. Steel baths are still fairly light.
 
Ah, so! Dat'll be dey, Mutts. I remember a fantastic one in the cottage we stayed at in Shortacombe (on the Okey/Tavi road, N. Devon) when my Dad was ill. It was a monster, had the old taps and lovely claw-and-ball feet. But it was already bowing the boards! :D
 
Personally, I'd have neither. I'd have a custom-made, fully-mosaic tiled one done, about 3 feet across by 6 feet long, with therapy jets, and inbuilt lights. That'll make bath-time great fun, and it'll be roomy enough that you can invite a chum to join you, too. Actually, long ago, in a more interesting lifetime, I rather ambitiously did that with the amour du jour. Unfortunately, I sat at the end where the bubble jet inlets were, and ended up with what looked like hamburger-grill brandings on both sides of my derriere for a couple of weeks. :shy:
 
You know, strange as it may seem, that didn't occur to me. :suspect: I guess nowadays it'd be up on YouTube before you could say 'stripe me pink'!
 

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