Bath Repairs & Resurfacing (merged threads)

can anyone help?
do you know any good but not over priced company who can restore our bath, please?
its a nice bath just need a nice touch with paint.
many thanks

When I last looked at this thread, someone asked about problems sanding the bath. This was my reply - but the original message has now vanished!

"It sounds like you are expecting too much. You don't need to remove original finish - you'll never succeed by sanding. All you are supposed to do is to remove all the surface gloss (and ingrained dirt) so as to provide a fresh surface for the new paint to stick to. So wear a dust mask, use an electric sander (Tubby sell an abrasive disc to fit in an electric drill) or do it the hard way by hand. (Oh - and use ear plugs with a drill!)
I am about to re-do our bath with a new Tubby kit after about 10 years. Most of it is as new, but some damage from dropping shower head wasn't repaired so bits started to flake. Use a cheap plastic shower head in future!
I am hoping the new paint will stick to the good old stuff. Nitromors is next to useless now it has been made safe by Regulations. Does anybody have experience of over-coating?
Also it is worth removing any metalwork if you can.

I can't recommend Diamond Gleam. They did a cast iron bath for us about 3 years back and it looked lovely. It only gets used about once a month by grandchildren, so it has had the equivalent of a month or two of normal use.
There is now a crack around the chrome waste, as they enamelled over the join. They say we should have un-plumbed it first [but did not tell us to do this before]. It would have been easy to do as it is free-standing and had only just been put back in place after re-flooring.
They are very upfront saying they would not repair it even if we paid!

I just want to confirm that Diamond Gleam are definitely one to avoid. Bath looked great at first but within weeks, enamel cracking and coming away. After great difficulty managed to get them back in to do some repairs, the same problem occurred again and numerous phone calls, emails later - no response. Finally asked for refund and of course no response. Very stressful experience and left with a bath that I now have to decide whether to call in someone else to sort out - any current recommendations would be appreciated or cut my losses and just go for new.