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.
Here’s a recent project we completed in Menifee that was a little different from our usual full reglazing work. This time the call came from a contractor. His crew had just installed a brand new fiberglass unit, and somewhere along the way it picked up a crack on the side. Anyone who’s worked with fiberglass knows how easy that can happen — one wrong knock during transport or install and you’ve got a crack in a unit that hasn’t even seen water yet. Tearing out a freshly installed unit and starting over is expensive and eats up the schedule, so he called us to see if we could repair it instead.
When we arrived, the first thing we did was a full inspection. You never want to just patch what you can see — you want to understand the whole picture of the damage first. The crack was on the side of the unit, and after looking it over, it was a good candidate for repair.
The first step in any proper fiberglass crack repair is stopping the crack from going anywhere. A crack in fiberglass is never done growing on its own — stress, flexing, temperature changes, normal use, all of it will keep pushing that crack further along over time. So we drilled a small hole at each end of the crack. That’s an old trick that works, because it spreads out the stress at the crack tips and stops it from traveling. Skip that step and you can fill a crack perfectly today and watch it creep right past your repair in six months.
With the ends stopped, we filled the crack with fiberglass body filler. This isn’t a one-pass job. We built it up layer by layer, letting each layer set, working it down, and building again until the repair was completely smooth and level with the surrounding surface. Done right, you can run your hand over it and feel nothing. That’s the standard — not just filled, but unnoticeable to the touch.
Then came the hard part: the color. This was a brand new unit, so the repair couldn’t just be close — it had to disappear. Color matching fiberglass is genuinely challenging. What looks white at first glance is never just white. There are subtle tones in there, and under bathroom lighting even a slightly-off match will jump out at you. We worked at it, mixing and testing, until we finally nailed the color perfectly. Then we sprayed the repair over with our airbrush, which lets us blend the new finish into the original surface gradually, feathering the edges so there’s no visible line where the repair starts and stops.
The end result was a seamless, unnoticeable repair. You could stand in that bathroom and not be able to point to where the crack had been. The contractor was very happy with the results — his new install was saved, his client never had to know there was an issue, and the job stayed on schedule without the cost of a replacement unit.
This is something worth knowing whether you’re a contractor or a homeowner: a crack in a fiberglass tub or shower doesn’t automatically mean replacement. In most cases, fiberglass damage repair done properly — stopping the crack, building it back solid, and matching the finish — restores the unit completely for a fraction of the cost.
This job was in Menifee, but we handle fiberglass crack repair and fiberglass damage repair all over Riverside, San Bernardino, and Orange County. Contractors call us to save new installs, and homeowners call us for cracks, holes, and damage in units they’re not ready to replace. Either way, we give honest estimates and we’ll tell you straight whether a repair will hold up or whether you’re better off going another direction.
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