On Jul 19, 11:46*am, geraldthehamster wrote:
OK chaps...

I hve a cast iron bath to move from an outhouse, to a first floor
bathroom. Having carried it once from trailer to outhouse, with a
neighbour's help, I'm aware of how unbelieveably heavy it is.

It needs to go up a flight of stairs with 3 winders at the bottom. The
stairs are newly fitted, and have newel bottoms but no balustrade.
They are stained and varnished and need not to be dinged or chipped.

There is nothing available upstairs to attach a block and tackle
to ;-)

Other than brute force, can anyone suggest techniques for getting it
up there without damage to stairs, bath or workforce?

Cheers
Richard

When plumbers used to fit cast iron bath they turned the bath upside-
down, put a hammer, with the head wrapped in cloth, with the shaft
through the plug hole and two of them got the bath up stairs. One at
the plughole end lifting on the hammer shaft and the other lifting
from the bottom. The hammer can be subtitled by a stout piece of
timber and a rope looped round and threaded through the plughole.

"Kipper at sea" wrote in message
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On Jul 19, 11:46 am, geraldthehamster wrote:
OK chaps...

I hve a cast iron bath to move from an outhouse, to a first floor
bathroom. Having carried it once from trailer to outhouse, with a
neighbour's help, I'm aware of how unbelieveably heavy it is.

It needs to go up a flight of stairs with 3 winders at the bottom.
The
stairs are newly fitted, and have newel bottoms but no balustrade.
They are stained and varnished and need not to be dinged or chipped.

There is nothing available upstairs to attach a block and tackle
to ;-)

Other than brute force, can anyone suggest techniques for getting it
up there without damage to stairs, bath or workforce?

Cheers
Richard

When plumbers used to fit cast iron bath they turned the bath upside-
down, put a hammer, with the head wrapped in cloth, with the shaft
through the plug hole and two of them got the bath up stairs. One at
the plughole end lifting on the hammer shaft and the other lifting
from the bottom. The hammer can be subtitled by a stout piece of
timber and a rope looped round and threaded through the plughole.

Ah ... but plumbers were REAL MEN in those days G

AWEM

Kipper at sea wrote:
On Jul 19, 11:46 am, geraldthehamster wrote:
OK chaps...

I hve a cast iron bath to move from an outhouse, to a first floor
bathroom. Having carried it once from trailer to outhouse, with a
neighbour's help, I'm aware of how unbelieveably heavy it is.

It needs to go up a flight of stairs with 3 winders at the bottom. The
stairs are newly fitted, and have newel bottoms but no balustrade.
They are stained and varnished and need not to be dinged or chipped.

There is nothing available upstairs to attach a block and tackle
to ;-)

Other than brute force, can anyone suggest techniques for getting it
up there without damage to stairs, bath or workforce?

Cheers
Richard

When plumbers used to fit cast iron bath they turned the bath upside-
down, put a hammer, with the head wrapped in cloth, with the shaft
through the plug hole and two of them got the bath up stairs. One at
the plughole end lifting on the hammer shaft and the other lifting
from the bottom. The hammer can be subtitled by a stout piece of
timber and a rope looped round and threaded through the plughole.

Now that *is* worth knowing.

On 20 July, 16:54, RobertL wrote:
On Jul 19, 11:46*am, geraldthehamster wrote:

OK chaps...

I hve a cast iron bath to move from an outhouse, to a first floor
bathroom.

Are you sure the bathroom floor can take the weight?

Robert

The floor isn't new, but according to the tables the joists are just
at the limit for the span. I'm assuming that the current standard is
over-engineered for an unlikely number of people jumping up and down
at once. The bath will be cross-ways across several joists; I'm going
to add extra noggins between, and also 4x2 struture screwed across on
top to form a plinth (so I can see out of the window). I'm not sure,
no ;-)

Still haven't taken a final decision on using the bath, which isn't
new. I've cleaned it with CIF cream but there are still some dark
streaky marks. If I can get those out I'll use it. What should I try -
bleach too strong? Bicarb?


Cheers
Richard


Cheers
Richard

Another old cleaning product used for cleaning baths was Ajax or Vim.
Not seen any of this for years.

teamhillside wrote:
On Jul 19, 11:46 am, geraldthehamster wrote:
OK chaps...

I hve a cast iron bath to move from an outhouse, to a first floor
bathroom. Having carried it once from trailer to outhouse, with a
neighbour's help, I'm aware of how unbelieveably heavy it is.

It needs to go up a flight of stairs with 3 winders at the bottom. The
stairs are newly fitted, and have newel bottoms but no balustrade.
They are stained and varnished and need not to be dinged or chipped.

There is nothing available upstairs to attach a block and tackle
to ;-)

Other than brute force, can anyone suggest techniques for getting it
up there without damage to stairs, bath or workforce?

Cheers
Richard

Surely you want no damage to stairs, bath AND workforce? Or is one of
those elements optional?!?

I had the opposite problem - wanted to get rid of a bath. In the end,
left in place as it would have been more trouble than it was worth to
try to get it down our stairs.

Matt
Getting them out is easy. Cover ears, hit bath with sledgehammer, carry
out a bit at a time. Time it for 1pm and people will just think the
local church clock is stiking

SteveW

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On Jul 19, 11:46*am, geraldthehamster wrote:
OK chaps...

I hve a cast iron bath to move from an outhouse, to a first floor
bathroom.
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It needs to go up a flight of stairs with 3 winders at the bottom.
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Other than brute force, can anyone suggest techniques for getting it
up there without damage to stairs, bath or workforce?

Cheers
Richard

Get your brute force from a 12v battery.
Hire a stair walker:

http://www.hss.com/g/70494/Light-Dut...ber-130kg.html

I'd still suggest at least two additional bodies with you - they're
manuverable around winding stairs etc., but may need an occasional
"nudge", and plenty of eyes looking out for the newel posts never
hurt.

hth,

bookieb

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Steve Walker
saying something like:

Getting them out is easy. Cover ears, hit bath with sledgehammer, carry
out a bit at a time. Time it for 1pm and people will just think the
local church clock is stiking

And for feck's sake wear goggles. The enamel splinters can pierce your
eyes.

On 19 July, 11:46, geraldthehamster wrote:
OK chaps...

I hve a cast iron bath to move from an outhouse, to a first floor
bathroom. Having carried it once from trailer to outhouse, with a
neighbour's help, I'm aware of how unbelieveably heavy it is.

It needs to go up a flight of stairs with 3 winders at the bottom. The
stairs are newly fitted, and have newel bottoms but no balustrade.
They are stained and varnished and need not to be dinged or chipped.

There is nothing available upstairs to attach a block and tackle
to ;-)

Other than brute force, can anyone suggest techniques for getting it
up there without damage to stairs, bath or workforce?

Cheers
Richard

I can tell you the exact method traditionally used. You need two
people, one needs to be fairly strong. You set the bath up vertically
on the tap hole edge. The strong one stands in front of it with his
back to it. The bath is lowered onto him so he is inside inside like
a tortoise. He climbs the stair, on his hands and knees underneath
the bath in his "shell".
The other guides and steers the bath round the various obstructions by
holding it near the tap holes.
This method works, I have tried it.( In the steering capacity.) It's
actually harder to get the bath down the stairs without damage.

On 19 July, 19:59, Peter Watson wrote:
On 19/07/2010 18:46, The Medway Handyman wrote:



I removed a cast iron bath from my father in laws years ago. *I heard all
about this 'bash it with a hammer' trick, so I tried it. *My ears were still
ringing a week later and the bath was unscathed!

Likewise - One clout with a club hammer and I was then hunting for my
ear defenders!

To break it, you bash it on the inside. Cast iron is weak in tension
but strong in compression.