libranite baths

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Hi

Does anyone know where i can go to find out more about libranite baths ?
had a quick look on google, but couldnt find anything useful. I libranite a brand or a material ? trying to find a good bath at the momment i know you cna buy 5, 7, 8mm baths and libranite and caramelite baths.
Does the 5, 7 or 8 mm refer to the depth of the mould in the the bath ?

Thanks

aliasojo

As far as I can make out, Libranite is a coating used to reinforce the underside of baths/shower trays etc. The manufacturer is a South African company called Libra, who are linked with Tywford in the UK.

This sounds just exactly the same as our Carronite baths made by Carron in Scotland. In fact both manufacturers use the same picture of a truck balanced on 4 upturned baths to show the strength of the bath.

The mm sizing refers to the thickness of the acrylic used to make the bath...i.e. how thick the bath wall will be.

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Hi aliasojo

Many thanks for the information.....would you reccomend a libranite bath over a normal acrylic bath thatis 5, 7 or 8mm ? there is a deal on at our local plumbers merchants £128 for a 1700 by 700 bath. have to drill the hole ourselves for taps though.

Also when you say the bath thickness is 5, 7 or 8mm does that refer to the actual bath mould, so thatsides and bottom of it?

cheers

aliasojo

Lol....I'm no expert so I dont really want to recommend anything ...but after doing some research into this (I am buying a Carronite bath shortly), I am led to believe that the coating reinforces an acrylic bath so that it is as strong as a steel one and there is less flexing than there is with an normal acrylic bath of any thickness, so my preference would be for one with the reinforcing coating.

The bottom of the bath should be fully encapsulated which means there is a baseboard on the underneath, which strengthens the bath and is then sprayed over with this coating. So the base will be thicker than the walls of the bath.

A fully encapsulated bath is stronger than a bath which just has a visable baseboard fixed to the bottom.

I have to say though £128 sounds very, very cheap to me, for a reinforced bath. That would worry me. You can pay more for 'ordinary' acrylic baths. The Carronite versions average £600.

There are a couple of people on here who work in bathrooms (well...not 'in' exactly but you know what I mean) so hopefully you'll get more advice soon.

Ionkontrol

Get a steel bath with a minimum of 5mm.

http://www.kaldewei.com/en/