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Thanks to everyone again for their comments and suggestions. As someone who knows nothing at all about DIY, and just popped in on the offchance of help, I really appreciate people making the effort. Maybe one day I can acquire wisdom and offer it to others :)

Hi John, The trouble is that the bath's 175cm long, and the overflow's in the middle. That, and the fact that if my girlfriend saw me removing part of an external wall, having a flaked bit of chrome paint on an overflow would be quite low down on the list of things that needed fixing.

Thanks for your input, guys. The other side of the wall is the great outdoors, so that won't be possible. The existing one doesn't have a centre pin, so I think that's out. I'm down to one option, really, which is to obtain a larger overflow chrome thing and silicon seal it over the top of...

Yes, absolutely, but I really don't want to have to have the bath (and tiling) ripped out to replace this one component. I was just wondering if there was a likely-to-be-successful way of re-spraying it, or whether it's a waste of time.

Hi, At the end of last week, I noticed that the paint was flaking off the bath overflow (see picture below). We've only had the bathroom done a month, so we're gutted. Due to the design of the bath, it is fitted against the bathroom wall with little clearance between the side and the...