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Get a new bath which plays nice with modern fittings and which can be properly plumbed in and fixed in case of emergency.
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Life's too short to spend it fixing leaks and convincing new random trades to work on a standard that was designed before they were born, get a new one.
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I would say if you had a nice space to have it free-standing then keep it, but as it's anyway jammed in then you won't really get the effect of a freestanding bath and it'll just look unfinished. Sell it for profitz on Etsy and live easy.
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We need to get our bathroom done ASAP (non-functioning bath tap, leaks, bath resting on asbestos cement cutoffs, water-damaged floorboards, etc.)
I quite like our existing bath - I think it's the original 1930s cast-iron bath, with nice art deco feet. Quotes for getting it re-enamelled are much less than a new bath of similar spec.
However, bathroom fitters aren't minded to mess about with it - apparently it's hard to fit a waste in a way that doesn't leak, and they're understandably not that interested in moving it out of the bathroom while they tile the floor.
Is it worth keeping?
I feel like I was dead set on it till a bathroom fitter yesterday talked a bit of sense into me. Now I could go either way.
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