All over Travis 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.
Do you look at your old stained tub and feel completely discouraged by the grime? Well, you can fix that exact eyesore without spending a fortune on a full bathroom gut job. This service lets you completely transform your worn bathing basin into a stunning centerpiece.
Now, getting a fresh surface applied right over your existing unit saves you thousands of dollars in demolition fees. Consequently, you avoid the messy drywall repair and plumbing headaches that come with replacing heavy cast iron. This smart upgrade gives you a gorgeous finish while keeping your hard earned cash right in your wallet.
First, local professionals arrive at your home with specialized chemical cleaners to strip away decades of soap scum. Then, they meticulously etch the porcelain or fiberglass so the fresh coating bonds permanently without peeling. This careful preparation ensures you get a durable surface that handles daily family use like a champ.
Afterwards, skilled technicians spray industrial grade coatings using high volume low pressure equipment for a glassy look. This modern technique lets you enjoy a smooth finish that rivals the visual appeal of brand new showroom models. Meanwhile, you drastically reduce landfill waste by recycling your sturdy original basin instead of tossing it out.
Typically, pulling out an old tub destroys surrounding tile and requires expensive custom carpentry work to fit the new piece. However, refinishing your current fixture takes mere hours from start to finish without disturbing your bathroom walls. This means you skip weeks of construction dust and avoid living in a chaotic construction zone.
Besides that, modern aliphatic urethane coatings resist fading and staining much better than ancient factory baked enamel ever could. Therefore, you gain a brilliant shine that makes scrubbing away hard water spots an absolute breeze every weekend.
Operating right here in a massive southern region with a bustling population of over one million residents keeps us very busy. Specifically, property owners living across ZIP codes spanning 78701 through 78759 call us constantly for surface rescue. Moreover, local families enjoying a median household income hovering near ninety thousand dollars appreciate smart ways to save money.
Whether you reside near the bustling downtown streets or out towards the scenic hill country, our mobile crew travels directly to you. This dedicated local service means you never have to haul heavy fixtures anywhere or hire multiple random subcontractors for simple jobs.
When you weigh your choices for home improvement, comparing costs helps clarify why surface restoration wins every single time. Here is a quick breakdown to help you visualize the financial difference between tearing things out and simply spraying over them.
| Project Approach | Average Cost | Time Required | Mess Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full Replacement | Four to Eight Thousand | One to Three Weeks | Extremely High |
| Surface Refinishing | Four to Eight Hundred | One Single Day | Minimal To None |
Naturally, the savings speak volumes when you look at those numbers side by side on your kitchen table. Because of this stark contrast, thrifty homeowners always choose the faster and cheaper route to bathroom rejuvenation.
Typically, a professionally sprayed basin holds up beautifully for ten to fifteen years with proper daily care and gentle cleaning products. Naturally, avoiding abrasive scouring powders ensures your slick finish maintains its mirror like gloss for a very long time. This impressive longevity gives you incredible peace of mind regarding your home improvement investment.
On top of that, you can always request a touch up if a heavy dropped object ever chips the surface. This convenient repairability makes surface restoration a much smarter choice than buying fragile acrylic tubs that crack easily.
Frankly, the specialized bonding agents do release noticeable fumes while the technician applies the industrial resins in your bathroom. Nevertheless, our team utilizes heavy duty exhaust ventilation fans to pull those odors directly out of your house immediately. This thoughtful safety measure lets you breathe easy while your new finish cures safely behind closed doors.
Furthermore, the smell dissipates completely within a few short hours after the final clear coat finishes drying. Therefore, you can sleep comfortably in your own bed the very same night without lingering chemical smells bothering anyone.
Ignoring hairline cracks in your ancient porcelain allows water to seep underneath and rot your expensive subfloor silently. Consequently, delaying simple cosmetic fixes turns into a major structural plumbing disaster down the road for your family. Fixing the problem right now protects your home value and stops further deterioration in its tracks.
Besides preventing water damage, taking action today gives you back a relaxing space to unwind after grueling workdays. After all, nobody enjoys soaking in a rough stained tub that feels impossible to get truly clean.
Securing professional help for your worn bathroom fixtures takes less than two minutes of your busy day right now. Simply reach out to request your completely free quote and let our local pros evaluate your specific tub condition. This zero pressure estimate gives you exact pricing details so you can plan your home project without any hidden surprises.
Stop staring at that embarrassing yellowed basin and contact our friendly team to schedule your service consultation today. Your sparkling clean bathroom transformation is only a quick message away from becoming your favorite room in the house.
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