Antique Baths Sydney Pty Ltd Information

We are the ONLY company in Australia that are able to restore HERITAGE LISTED cast iron items, for example the Melbourne City Bath House, Sydney Harbour Trust and NSW Railways, local councils, require baths, drinking fountains and the like to be restored correctly. Vitreous (Porcelain) enamel which has a quality and feel unmatched by any other. The manufacture of cast iron baths ceased in Australia quite some time ago. But Steve Atherton, Managing Director of Antique Baths Sydney, had travelled to the UK, to learn the art of Vitreous enamel in 1992 and the Rest is History. Antique Baths have been restoring and manufacturing with a vitreous enamel which carries an "AAA" rating for acid and alkaline resistance. When it was explained that porcelain or vitreous enamels were in fact special glass coatings and that the re-enamelling process involved stripping the old enamel then reapplying new enamel and fusing it to the iron at about 850 deg. C in a large furnace, many lost interest. Furthermore, there was still sufficient demand however to attract the interest of "Antique Baths" who up until 1992, had been using organic coatings to resurface old tubs.