Welcome to Adamov Reglazing, your trusted partner for bathtub reglazing and cabinet refinishing services in Southern California. We proudly serve residential and commercial clients across multiple locations, helping you revitalize your bathrooms and kitchens with cost-effective, professional solutions.
Looking for bathtub reglazing in Rancho Mirage? Adamov Reglazing restores porcelain, cast iron, fiberglass, and acrylic tubs across Rancho Mirage and the Coachella Valley — ready to use in about 7 hours, backed by a 4-year warranty, with no hidden costs. Reglazing instead of replacing saves thousands of dollars and days of demolition mess.
Rancho Mirage is full of mid-century homes and country club properties where the original cast iron and porcelain tubs are part of the architecture — and where a remodel means HOA approvals and weeks of disruption. Reglazing avoids all of that. We also get called out here regularly for two desert-specific problems: hard water scale that dulls a finish fast, and previous reglazes from other companies that have started to peel. Seasonal residents and rental owners like that we can turn a bathroom around in one visit.
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Here’s a cast iron tub reglazing project we recently completed in Rancho Mirage, and this one’s a little different because we weren’t the first ones to refinish it. The tub had been reglazed several years back by another company, but somewhere along the line that finish started peeling. When a previous reglaze fails like this, the homeowner usually assumes reglazing just doesn’t work — but that’s not the case. A reglaze done right and cared for right lasts. When one peels, there’s almost always a reason, and finding that reason is the first part of the job.
In this case, the most likely culprit was a bath mat with suction cups. I see it all the time. Those suction cups grab onto the coating, and every time the mat gets pulled up, it tugs on the finish. Do that day after day and eventually the coating starts lifting, and once it lets go in one spot it spreads from there. It doesn’t matter how good the original reglaze was — a suction-cup mat will work it loose over time. So part of what the homeowner is paying for is knowing that going forward, this tub needs a different kind of mat, one without suction cups, or any finish will eventually have the same fight on its hands.
Now to the work. The key with redoing a failed reglaze is that you can’t just spray over the old coating — you have to deal with what’s already there. We started by removing the old caulking all the way around the tub, then sanding down the previous coating. Sanding that old finish down does two things: it takes off the failing, peeling layer, and it knocks the surface back so the new coating has something solid to grab. Skip that and you’re just stacking a new finish on top of a failing one, and it’ll peel right back off. This is a cast iron tub, so underneath that old coating is a porcelain enamel surface over a heavy cast iron body — a substrate that lasts generations when it’s prepped and refinished properly.
After the old coating was sanded down, we did a deep cleaning inside and out. Cleaning the inside is obvious, but the outside of the tub matters too for a complete, uniform finish. Every bit of soap scum, grime, and residue came off so there was nothing left to interfere with the bond. Then we ran new caulking all the way around the tub, both to seal it against water and to give it a clean, finished edge.
With the prep done, we masked the whole room — and on this job that included the countertop and the walls along with the floor and fixtures. Reglazing throws a fine overspray that drifts onto every nearby surface, so anything we didn’t want coated got taped and covered first.
Then we sprayed our polyurethane bright white finish. Polyurethane is a tough, durable coating, and on a job like this — where the last finish failed — durability is exactly the point. The result was excellent. The tub came out shiny, bright white, and feeling completely fresh, with no trace of the old peeling finish anywhere. The customer was extremely satisfied, and now that the tub’s been properly stripped, prepped, and refinished — and the suction-cup mat is gone for good — this finish is set up to last.
We get a lot of calls to redo work another company did that didn’t hold up, and the causes are usually the same short list: prep that was rushed, silicone residue left on the surface, coating sprayed over an old failing layer, or day-to-day wear like a suction-cup mat pulling at the finish. None of those mean reglazing doesn’t work — they mean that particular job was set up to fail. We’ll tell you straight which one we think happened on your tub and what it takes to make it right.
Every job finishes the same way: we hand over a post-care kit and our cleaning recommendations, so you know exactly how to keep the finish looking sharp — including which mats and cleaners to avoid. A good reglaze isn’t just about the day we finish; it’s about how it holds up years down the road.
This job was in Rancho Mirage, and we cover the surrounding Coachella Valley cities just as easily — Palm Desert, Palm Springs, Indian Wells, La Quinta, and Cathedral City.
If your tub was reglazed before and it’s peeling, or the finish has just worn out, call (310) 401-4491. We give honest estimates and we’ll always tell you straight what went wrong and what it’ll take to make it right.
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