Good news: Suzy’s midcentury house included a bathroom with a Nutone recessed fold-down bathroom scale. Bad news: It was all pitted and icky from exposure to moisture and who know what else over the years. Happy ending: Suzy used Liquid Stainless Steel to repaint the piece, inside and out — and it looks great!
I often get questions out how to clean up pitted and rusty chrome. I am not an expert on minor, topical repairs to freshen up chrome, but I think some readers — and Kate — have been successful with some of the products out there.
Re-chroming — real-deal rechroming — is super expensive, I’ve been told.
And to further complicate, I tend to think: Not many bathroom hardware back in the day was stainless steel — chrome finishes were the go-to.
All said… for some products … like a Nutone built-in bathroom scale, which *may* have come in stainless steel originally, or which is so large that it really needs its nice finish, I think that this liquid stainless steel might be a great solution.
Susy used LSS Liquid Stainless Steel:
Thanks, Suzy, for letting me show your photos! The revitalized scale looks great!
Since I loathe chrome and love stainless I will definitely be doing my research on this!! Thank you!!
That looks GREAT, thank you for sharing your success!
By the way, one way to clean up chrome, other than using a good chrome polish, is to use 0000 steel wool. It won’t scratch and will remove a surprising amount of the dirt/light pitting/etc. that it often has. This is an old auto cleaning/detailing trick I’ve been using for years.
You learn something new every day! Living so close to the ocean, all metal gets pitted, rusty, etc., stainless or not. I’m going to have to play with this stuff — could be a game changer!
It looks amazing! I would love to see before pictures.
The blog Southern Hospitality (southernhospitalityblog.com) has a sponsored post this morning about painting a refrigerator with this product, with pictures at all steps of the process.
That came out really nice! What a cool accessory to have in your bathroom.