All over Faribault County, worn bathtubs are resurfaced in place: repairs first, gloss second, fresh caulk on the way out.
One number reaches the technician who would hold the gun. The figure comes on the call, not after a visit.
(866) 951-0558The voice on the line belongs to the trade, not to a switchboard reading a script. Two minutes of plain description are enough to price a standard tub.
Your old bathroom fixtures probably look pretty sad right now because years of scrubbing have worn down that original shiny finish.
Surface restoration offers a brilliant way to make everything look brand new again in just a single day.
This clever process saves you thousands of dollars compared to tearing out your entire bathroom plumbing and walls.
When you choose this smart update, you avoid the massive headache of dealing with dusty demolition crews for weeks on end.
Which means you get to keep your original heavy cast iron or steel tub while giving it a gorgeous, glassy new protective coat.
Our local team specializes in this exact factory-grade liquid porcelain application, and we would love to stop by your home to give you a free quote today.
Think about the last time you looked at those ugly, stained surfaces and cringed at the thought of paying a contractor to rip them out.
Luckily, our special bonding agents fuse directly to your existing worn-out acrylic, fiberglass, or porcelain basin to create a seamless barrier.
This durable shield resists future chips and stains, meaning your weekly cleaning routine becomes ten times easier than before.
Imagine skipping the permits, the loud hammering, and the endless dust bunnies floating around your living space.
Instead, you get a pristine, high-gloss finish that looks identical to a brand-new showroom model.
We take immense pride in helping homeowners throughout the local area fall in love with their bathrooms all over again without draining their savings accounts.
To help you compare your options, let us look at how this refinishing method stacks up against traditional replacement:
| Factor | Full Replacement | Professional Resurfacing |
|---|---|---|
| Average Cost | Very High (often $3,000+) | Highly Affordable |
| Time to Complete | Typically 3 to 7 Days | Only 4 to 8 Hours |
| Mess & Demolition | Extreme dust and debris | Virtually none |
| Lifespan | 15+ years | 10 to 15 years with proper care |
First, we meticulously mask off your entire bathroom with protective paper and plastic sheets so absolutely no overspray lands on your walls or floors.
Then, we set up a powerful industrial exhaust fan to vent all the fumes safely out of your nearest window.
This careful setup guarantees that your home stays clean, safe, and completely free of chemical odor during the application.
Next, we apply a specialized acid etch to strip away decades of soap scum, hard water deposits, and body oils.
After that, we repair any deep chips, rust spots, or cracks with a heavy-duty waterproof resin filler.
This step creates a perfectly flat surface, which allows our molecular primer to grip the old material with incredible strength.
Finally, we spray several thin, even layers of our high-tech acrylic urethane topcoat using professional HVLP spray equipment.
This liquid compound cures into a rock-hard synthetic glaze that looks and feels exactly like baked-on factory enamel.
Once we remove the tape and clean up our workspace, your sparkling basin is ready to use after just a short curing window.
Maybe you saw a cheap box kit at the local hardware store and thought about tackling this job yourself over the weekend.
Unfortunately, those cheap brush-on epoxy paints peel off in giant sheets after only a few hot baths because they lack professional bonding primers.
Our commercial grade products require certified breathing gear and precise temperature controls to cure properly, which you simply cannot get from a retail box.
On top of that, paintbrushes leave ugly brush strokes and uneven ridges that trap dirt and harbor nasty mold.
Our spray technique ensures a smooth, glassy finish that is completely free of runs, drips, or rough patches.
Save yourself the double expense of buying a kit and then paying us to strip off your failed DIY attempt later on.
Living out here in the southern part of the Gopher State means we appreciate honest hard work and neighborly service.
We regularly travel to historic homes and cozy farmsteads across Faribault County, Minnesota, where older bathrooms are incredibly common.
Whether you have a classic clawfoot tub from the early 1900s or a dated 1970s avocado green alcove model, we know exactly how to handle it.
This region boasts a wonderful community of around 14,000 residents who take great pride in maintaining their beautiful properties.
With a median household income of roughly $53,000, finding smart, cost-effective ways to update your home is always a top priority.
We love serving families in ZIP codes like 56013, 56098, 56025, and all the surrounding rural routes with top-tier craftsmanship.
Now that your fixture looks pristine, you want to make sure that brilliant shine lasts for at least a decade or more.
Actually, the secret is incredibly simple: never use abrasive scouring powders, steel wool, or harsh bleach cleaners on your shiny new coating.
These rough chemicals will microscopically scratch the surface over time, which slowly dulls the glossy look and allows dirt to stick.
Instead, we highly recommend using mild dish soap, simple green, or a gentle foaming spray cleaner with a soft microfiber cloth.
This easy maintenance routine keeps the non-porous surface incredibly slick, meaning dirt and soap scum wash away with minimal effort.
Investing just a tiny bit of care ensures your bathroom continues to radiate pure comfort and visual warmth day after day.
Perhaps you are tired of staring at that outdated, stained color scheme every single time you brush your teeth.
Why wait any longer when you can transform your entire bathroom experience in less than twenty-four hours?
Our friendly local technicians are ready to answer your questions and provide a detailed, hassle-free evaluation of your fixtures.
Simply reach out to us today to request your 100% free, no-obligation written estimate right at your kitchen table.
We will inspect your current surfaces, explain your color options, and give you a clear price with absolutely no hidden fees.
Let us bring the sparkle back to your home so you can enjoy a bright, clean, and inviting space once again.
Three quiet stages carry the whole result. They are also the ones nobody sees in the after photo.
Stage 1 of 3
A reglaze fails or lasts on what happens before the gun comes out. The old surface gets scrubbed of soap film and silicone, etched or primed so the new material has something to grip, then wet sanded until it feels like fine paper. Skip any of that and the prettiest coat in the world lets go within a year, which is exactly the story most peeling tubs tell us.
Stage 2 of 3
Chips, rust blooms and worn drain rings are ground back to sound material and rebuilt with polyester filler, then sanded flush until a fingertip cannot find the spot. Coating over damage only photographs well on day one; a repair you cannot feel is what keeps the finish honest for years.
Stage 3 of 3
The topcoat goes on in fine sprayed passes with an extractor pulling air out the window the whole time. Sprayed layers flow together into one even skin, which is why the result reads as gloss rather than as paint. Brushes and rollers leave the texture that gives cheap refinishing its reputation.
Three real ways out of a worn tub. We only do the first one, so the other two columns are simply what we would tell a friend.
| The question | Reglazing in place | Acrylic liner | Full replacement |
|---|---|---|---|
| What a standard tub costs | $350 to $800 | $1,600 to $4,000 | $3,000 to $10,000 once walls and plumbing join in |
| Bathroom out of action | One day, then the cure | Weeks of lead time, then a fitting day | One to two weeks of trades |
| Demolition involved | None at all | None, but the old tub is sealed inside | Walls opened, floor patched, debris hauled |
| Honest life expectancy | Five years and up when cared for | Long, unless water creeps between the shells | Decades |
| Watch out for | Prep shortcuts by cut-rate crews | A spongy feel and hidden moisture | The budget doubling mid-project |
If your tub is cracked through, actively leaking underneath, or you simply want a different fixture, reglazing is the wrong tool, a verdict you will hear on the very first call.
Pass 1
Soap scum, silicone and old wax stripped, then the surface etched or bonded so the coating can bite.
Pass 2
Every ding ground out, filled and sanded flush. The repairs disappear under the coating instead of through it.
Pass 3
Tile, faucet, floor and glass papered off. Overspray lands on masking paper, never on grout or chrome.
Pass 4
Primer, then gloss coats laid on in thin passes until the surface reads as one poured skin.
Pass 5
The finish hardens on its own clock, 24 to 48 hours. We tape the door and leave the tub in peace.
Pass 6
Old caulk goes out with the old finish. A new mildew-resistant bead seals tub to tile on the way out.
A reglazed tub is your old tub wearing a professional coating. That is a fine thing to be, as long as everyone knows it going in.
A sprayed acrylic urethane skin, bonded to prepared porcelain, steel or fiberglass. It is smooth, glossy, warm to the touch and fully waterproof. Done properly it gives five years and more of daily service, and plenty of our tubs sail well past that with nothing but gentle cleaning.
It is not factory enamel fired onto iron at kiln temperatures, and no honest refinisher will tell you otherwise. It can be scratched by grit, dulled by harsh powders and lifted by standing water in a spot where caulk has failed. It is a durable coating, not a new tub, and it is priced like one.
Two minutes
ZIP, what the tub is made of, what bothers you about it. Said out loud it goes faster than typing, and a photo can follow later if the case is odd.
The same call
The technician who would do the work asks his questions and names a firm figure for a standard job, then confirms it in writing before any van is booked.
You set the date
One van, one technician, drop cloths from the front door to the bathroom. Water off for nothing; only the tub is out of service.
Most of that day
Damage filled and sanded, the room masked, extractor running, then the primer and gloss coats go on in thin, even passes.
24 to 48 hours
The finish hardens untouched, the new caulk bead goes in, and you run the first bath knowing exactly what was done and what to expect of it.
| What we quote | Typical range | Reading the number |
|---|---|---|
| Standard bathtub, reglazed complete | $350 - $800 | Clean, etch, repairs, sprayed gloss and fresh caulk. |
| Chip or rust repair alone | $150 - $300 | When the finish is sound and only one wound needs closing. |
| Clawfoot tub, inside and out | $700 - $1,300 | Two surfaces, more masking, and paint-grade feet if you wish. |
| Shower pan or base | $300 - $550 | Same process on the floor you stand on every morning. |
| Caulk renewal with the job | $90 - $180 | Old bead cut out, mildew-resistant line laid in. |
| Small job minimum | around $250 | The van, the materials and the cure time exist even for tiny work. |
Heavy previous coatings that must be stripped, unusual colors and badly pitted iron push a job toward the top of its bracket. The written price reaches you before the van is even loaded, and it holds.
Ventilation is not a courtesy, it is part of the job. The extractor runs from the first solvent wipe to the last sprayed pass, pulling air out the window instead of through your hallway, and the technician wears supplied air even when the household has gone out for the day. By the evening the bathroom smells like a bathroom again.
The materials are the professional two-part systems made for this trade, mixed fresh on site, never the single-can kits sold next to the paint rollers. It is the difference between a finish that cures into a hard skin and one that stays soft enough to peel at the drain within a season, and it is most of the reason our work carries a written workmanship promise against peeling and loss of adhesion.
And the schedule respects the cure. We tell you in writing when the tub goes back into service, 24 hours for most jobs and 48 for the cautious ones, because handing a family a beautiful surface and letting them ruin it that same night helps nobody. If anything in our workmanship lets go early, the technician comes back and makes it right without a discussion about whose fault the water was.
Strong while spraying, gone surprisingly fast. The extractor vents the room to the outside for the whole job, so the rest of the home stays livable, and by the next morning the odor has left with the fumes. Pregnant households and bird owners get the frank version of this talk before booking.
Between 24 and 48 hours after the final coat, and the exact time is written on the paperwork you keep. The first bath is not a gamble; it is a date.
Any color. The most common request is retiring an avocado, pink or almond tub to white, and the coating is tinted before it is sprayed, so the new color is in the material rather than painted over it.
Yes. The prep changes, the primer changes, the result reads the same. Fiberglass with soft, flexing spots gets extra reinforcement talk first, because coating a moving floor is how warranties die.
Now the old coating comes fully off, which is honest work we price plainly, and then the job proceeds as if the tub had never been touched. Peeling almost always means the first crew skipped the etch or sprayed over silicone, not that your tub rejects coatings.
Five years is the floor we are comfortable promising out loud, not the ceiling. With soft cleaners, no standing mats and caulk kept sound, these finishes routinely serve a decade. What we refuse to do is whisper twenty and hope you lose our number.
Zoom for the lay of the land; the link lists further down name every community the van reaches from here.
Somewhere under that worn surface is the tub you chose. One day brings it back.
Call (866) 951-0558