nightjar nightjar@ wrote:
"dkh" wrote in message
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We are refurbishing our bathroom and my wife fancies a couple of
the baths in Homebase.

they are largeish double ended ones. I think i had heard rumours
about the robustness of 'DIY Shed' baths before with a minimum
acceptable thickness.

With this in mind I asked the thinkness of the said bath (antilles)
and was told it was 5mm acryllic.

Is this acceptable or should i stick to a plumbers merchant ?
Trouble is that we have been to a few this is my wifes preferred
bath.

I prefer 8mm, but a lot also depends on how well the bath is
supported.

I'd certainly go along with that; I tend to ignore (or rather augment)
what fittings the manufacturer provides, which are invariably inadequate
especially for a thin bath. If you use plenty of extra support, eg at
the corners, you can compensate in part for the lack of thickness IMHO.

When I went into a specialist bathroom outlet recently, the proprietor
launched into a tirade against cheap'n nasty you-get-what-you-pay-for
suites at the sheds before I'd barely had a chance to open my mouth.

He affirmed that the 'diy shed' baths were all far too thin, and his
were of decent thickness; the interesting part for me was that he said
that the reason that 'diy shed' baths always have lots of ribbing and
designs built into their fabric is to give them a bit of stiffness so
they don't collapse under their own weight; he reckoned if you wanted a
very plain bath with no drip grooves, soap recesses etc, you had to go
for thicker material.

David