HELP!!! Acrylic Bath

Mozilla_2

I really hope someone can help me!

I have just fitted a new bath and started tiling on the wall around it. Some of the tiling adhesive dropped onto the bath as I was tiling, but I didn't remove it while it was still wet. After it had dried I tried washing it away, but this stuff was stuck solid.

I then used a scourer and managed to get rid of the dried adhesive from the bath. My problem now is that my once shiny new bath is no longer shiny in the areas where I used the scourer! :-(

As its an acrylic bath, does anybody know if a way to restore the shine? Can it be buffed out? Do I need special tools?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

p4u1_2

You could try using cutting compound (T-Cut) as used on cars to restore faded paintwork on cars. Some specialists supply different grades just in case what Halfords stock is too course.

Good Luck!

weekendwarrior

I have not tried T-cut for use on acrylic but it should work ok, but if you have none you can use silver polish.

There are instructions on how to remove a scratch from acrylic here-
http://www.ultimatehandyman.co.uk/ACRYLIC_REMOVING_SCRATCHES.htm

The scourer will have put many tiny scratches there that should be easy enough to remove.

The firm that makes canopies for some fighter aircfraft uses clear perspex and they polish out any scratches using a similar method.

raymond

Chances are the scratches will be quite deep, the only way is to use various grades of abrasive down to very very fine then polish.

Using tcut or similar will NOT remove the scratches but will make it look shiny for a little while. Also these cleaners contain solvents that may discolour your bath ... or worse.

You will never get it to look like new so if the areas are small then leave it before you cause more damage.

We use a special acrylic polish in work for some machines but its very expensive and very time consuming.

Mozilla_2

Thank you all for your help. I haven't tried any of the suggestions yet, but I was hoping maybe a drill with a buffer bit would do the job. I nearly bought some Asda own brand T-cut, but the label said not recommended for use on plastic so I put it back. Has anybody tried using T-cut or similar on an acrylic bath?

The bath doesn't have any (visible) scratches. Its just the shine that has gone. I remember some years back in CDT we somehow polished acrylic to make it shine. Trouble is I can't remember exactly how it was done! :-(

raymond

The least risky method would be toothpaste, but do NOT use an electric drill or anything else like that, hand polish only.

robowen

There's a company I used once to do a repair to an acrylic bath.
My mate was tiling and placed a tile on the edge of the bath, it fell into the bath and scratched it and put a gouge in it.

This bloke turned up with his filler and some polish.....I couldn't tell where he done the repair it was so good.

You need to get a proper company in who know what they are doing. The filler needs to be the exact colour of the bath to infill the scratches.

I think they were called 'Bath Wizard' .

rob

bestyman

Hi,
I used to work in a bathroom shop and scratches on baths were polished out with metal polish - the type that comes soaked cotten wool in a tin , its called Duraglit I think. Worked a treat .
Bestyman

msraec

p4u1 wrote:

You could try using cutting compound (T-Cut) as used on cars to restore faded paintwork on cars. Some specialists supply different grades just in case what Halfords stock is too course.

Good Luck!

on the same lines...sort of - does anyone know if any of these products would work on a white sink? our sink and cistern are standard b&q and reasonably new - little black scratch marks have been appearing all over them, especially the inside of the sink (which we've finally figured out has been caused by a titanium engagement ring!) the marks arent gouged or anything, you cant feel them like you would an actual scratch but bathroom cleaners arent getting them off and they do spoil the suite - my other half wants to try nail polish remover but im a bit cautious....any advice on how to get the marks off would be greatly appreciated!

weekendwarrior

msraec wrote:

on the same lines...sort of - does anyone know if any of these products would work on a white sink? our sink and cistern are standard b&q and reasonably new - little black scratch marks have been appearing all over them, especially the inside of the sink (which we've finally figured out has been caused by a titanium engagement ring!) the marks arent gouged or anything, you cant feel them like you would an actual scratch but bathroom cleaners arent getting them off and they do spoil the suite - my other half wants to try nail polish remover but im a bit cautious....any advice on how to get the marks off would be greatly appreciated!

This might work for your sink-
http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/sea/searchresults.jsp?howMany=10&searchText=Bath+Rubber&gtse=goog&gtkw=Bath+Rubber

Mr_Proctalgia

You can get acrylic polish from pet shops and mobile phone shops!!!!!

One is for polish out scratches on these fancy new fish tanks and the other is for polishing out scratches on these fancy new phones you can get nowadays.

HTH