Flaking White Bath Edge Refinished On Site

Masked off ready for treatment, the front edge of this white bath showed a long stretch of flaking, peeling finish, the surface lifting away in patches to reveal the duller material underneath. Edges like this tend to fail through age and constant splashing, where the original coating loses its grip and begins to shed along the most exposed line of the rim. Once it starts, the flaking creeps along the edge and the bath quickly looks tired and uneven.

Working entirely on site, our technician stripped back the loose, peeling material, stabilised the edge and applied a fresh, hard wearing finish along the whole rim. The repair to the bath was then colour matched to the surrounding white and polished smooth, so the join disappears into the panel. The after image shows a clean, glossy and continuous edge with the flaking completely gone and a uniform surface restored from end to end.

A bath repair kit from the DIY aisle might seem the obvious fix for a flaking edge, yet a brush on coating from a kit rarely bonds to a surface that is already shedding. The new layer lifts in turn, the patches show through and the whole edge often needs redoing properly soon after. Magicman technicians are fully trained, bring more than thirty years of refinishing experience since 1993 and use proprietary materials chosen to bond and last. Online guides make a chipped bath look like a five minute job, but achieving an even, durable finish across a full edge is where skill and the right materials earn their keep.

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