Chrome restoration and plating services by DMF. We offer stripping, metal polishing, chroming, nickel, copper and gold plating, all to a first class quality. Phone or Email for a quote.

Douglas Metal Finishing

Chrome Plating

Members of the Surface Engineering Association

Phone:020 8692 1271

Chrome Restoration

Chrome plating or chroming is hardly a matter of dipping an article into a tank, it is a long involved process that often starts with tedious polishing and buffing, then cleaning and acid dipping, and copper plating. For top reflectivity "Show Chrome", this will be followed by buffing of the copper for perfect smoothness, cleaning and acid dipping again, and plating more copper, then nickel plating, all before the chrome plating is done. Rinsing is required between every step.

When an item needs "rechroming", understand what is really involved: stripping the chrome, stripping the nickel (and the copper if applicable), then polishing out all of the scratches and blemishes (they can't be plated over and any scratches will show after plating), then plating with copper and "mush buffing" to squash copper into any tiny pits, then starting the whole process described above.