All over McMinn 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.
Are you tired of looking at that ugly stained basin in your home? Luckily, you can revive your old plumbing fixture without spending thousands on a total gut job.
Most folks in this lovely area want a nice looking washroom without going broke. Fortunately, local pros can spray a fresh acrylic coat right over your existing tub.
This clever process saves you loads of cash and weeks of messy demolition. Furthermore, your bathroom will look brand new before you even know it.
Buying a brand new soaking basin costs a small fortune once you factor in labor. Alternatively, spraying the current surface lets you keep your hard earned cash in your pocket.
Which means you can spend those savings on other fun home projects around the house. On top of that, your wallet stays happy while your home gets a gorgeous makeover.
Tearing out a heavy iron basin destroys your floors and creates endless dust. However, skilled techs simply prep and coat the existing unit right where it sits.
This avoids structural damage to your walls and keeps your home clean. Consequently, you skip the dumpster rental fees and dodge the headache entirely.
Workers start by scrubbing away years of soap scum and mineral buildup. Next, they use a strong chemical bond agent to make sure the new finish sticks.
This vital step prevents peeling down the road and guarantees lasting results. Therefore, your investment stays protected against daily wear and tear.
Specialized spray guns apply a durable acrylic polyurethane coating in thin, even layers. This lets you enjoy a smooth, high gloss finish that rivals brand new porcelain.
Meanwhile, proper ventilation keeps your indoor air safe during the application phase. Eventually, you get a gorgeous sheen that breathes new life into your room.
| Service Type | Average Expense | Time Required |
|---|---|---|
| Full Replacement | Four Thousand Dollars | Two Weeks |
| Surface Spraying | Five Hundred Dollars | One Day |
Looking at these numbers makes the smart choice pretty obvious to most homeowners. But wait, you also get to skip the plumbing permits and inspection hassles.
That means zero downtime for your daily morning routine and happy family members. Naturally, getting this done quickly makes your life so much easier.
Harsh abrasive powders will ruin your newly sprayed finish in no time flat. Instead, you must use mild liquid dish soap and a soft microfiber cloth.
This simple habit protects the glossy sheen for many years to come. Ultimately, gentle care ensures your investment keeps paying off daily.
Dropping heavy tools into the basin can chip the fresh acrylic coating. Fortunately, you can buy cheap rubber mats to cushion heavy items safely.
This prevents accidental impacts and keeps the surface looking pristine and untouched. By doing this, you maintain that gorgeous plush feel every single day.
You need to hire someone who truly understands proper ventilation and chemical safety. Experienced operators know how to mask off your tiles without making mistakes.
This guarantees crisp lines and a professional look across the entire room. Therefore, you never have to worry about sloppy work or overspray.
Reputable tradespeople always show off pictures of their previous washroom makeovers gladly. Browsing their past work lets you see the quality of their craftsmanship.
This helps you avoid sketchy operators who cut corners to save time. Consequently, you gain total peace of mind before signing any agreement.
A dingy yellow basin drags down the overall vibe of your entire house. Once that surface shines again, your whole washroom feels bright and modern.
This little change works wonders when guests come over to visit you. In short, your living space instantly feels much cleaner and way more inviting.
Home buyers hate seeing stained or chipped plumbing fixtures during open house tours. Fixing these flaws makes your property much easier to sell quickly.
Which means you can command a higher asking price on the real estate market. On top of that, homes with updated baths sell much faster than others.
Throwing away a massive cast iron basin adds heavy debris to local dumps. Refinishing keeps that heavy material right where it belongs in your home.
This reduces manufacturing demands and cuts down on needless industrial waste. Consequently, you play a small part in keeping our planet green.
Manufacturing brand new plumbing fixtures consumes massive amounts of energy and raw ore. Spraying your current unit uses a tiny fraction of those resources.
This lowers your personal carbon footprint while giving you a fresh new look. Thus, smart remodeling helps the environment and your personal budget simultaneously.
Ready to transform your worn out washroom fixture without spending a fortune? You deserve a stunning space that makes you smile every morning.
Stop waiting around and reach out to local pros for assistance today. Request your free quote right now to get your project started off right.
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