Summary: If you are dreaming to give a soothing and beautiful look to your toilet, then you have abundant choices of colors. Go grab your favorite shade and see your dream turning into reality.
Question: Many years ago when I built my home, I used pink fixtures in my bathroom. They are in excellent condition and I like the color. But a falling hammer unfortunately shattered the toilet bowl. I can't locate a pink toilet that matches with the original color. I have no intention of replacing all of the plumbing fixtures. What are my options?
Answer: Your search for a toilet that matches the color of your toilet can be made easy with a little effort and a little extra cost. The pink and grey were the mainstream colors few years back. So you can easily get one as a second hand toilet. The toilet tank lid should be sufficient to find one that perfectly matches. Contact your nearby plumbing supply house and other manufacturers for more details. Some plumbing supply houses and manufactures only deals with old and worn out toilets. These exchange the new ones or the old. This would the ideal place for your search. Just check in the few dumpsters where many suppliers and dealers store the older unused toilets.
The plumbers often suggest a repainting of the toilet with the epoxy paint. This involves a small amount of risk and double work as it requires complete repack of the toilet and touring it to the factory. Moreover, when exposed to high temperatures, the epoxy coatings are also susceptible to peeling. Epoxy coatings also lack the hardness of the thin glass surface that is achieved when a piece of china is actually fired in a kiln.
China canisters are the best solutions for this costly problem. And if you are an artist, the problem can be solved in a beautiful way with no effort of reinstallation. The surface has a hard fired clear glaze commonly found on china plumbing fixtures. Use glossy paints available in the market to decorate the toilet and hide the cracks present over it. Give various shades that you like and that match with the color of your toilet. Pink stripe and some other great design using contrasting colors will make you toilet really beautiful. The most suitable place to paint in the toilet would be along the toilet tank lid, the front vertical face of the toilet tank. You can make it even more attractive by giving shades over the tank lid, front and sides of the tank and even accents on the side of the bowl.
Do not paint on the inside of the bowl or the places that come in contact with water. Stop worrying about the cleaning and maintenance. Just wipe the area with an old rag and you won’t see any part fading away. The other idea would be to hire an artist and get a sample of what he will do on the toilet, to be done on a white poster board. You can simply see if the designs suit your toilet and make the necessary changes. This way work will be reduced and made error free and satisfactory. Even after this if you are not satisfied you can use the paint strippers available in the market to remove these permanently.
Thus you are done with repainting your toilet in an easy and cost-effective manner.
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