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Got a job done out in Dana Point this past week on a fiberglass tub and shower combo. These one-piece units are everywhere down here, especially in homes built in the eighties and nineties, and they age about the same way every time. The surface gets dull, you start seeing chips around the bottom and the corners, and then somewhere along the way somebody slaps a non-slip sticker on the floor of it that ends up being there for the next twenty years.
That’s pretty much exactly what we were working with on this one. The owner had a couple of chips and small holes scattered around the unit, the finish was tired, and there was an old sticker stuck on the wall that needed to come off and disappear under the new coating. Standard stuff for a unit this age. Nothing that couldn’t be brought back.
We kicked it off with a deep cleaning, and yeah, we brushed every line on the unit even though it’s fiberglass. People sometimes ask why we do this on a fiberglass tub since there’s no grout between the lines. Doesn’t matter. The lines and the corners are still where the soap scum and the grime build up the worst. Water runs down the walls, hits those seams and grooves, and that’s where everything settles. So we work each one of them with a brush until you’re back to clean fiberglass, not whatever film has been sitting on top of it for the last however many years. If you spray over that film, the new coating either doesn’t stick right or it starts breaking down a lot sooner than it should.
After the deep clean, we went after the chips and the holes and the old sticker. Filled in the chips and holes, smoothed them out flat with the surrounding surface, and got the sticker fully off the wall along with the adhesive residue underneath it. Stickers are one of those things that look like a quick removal but the glue residue always wants to fight you. You’ve got to clean it down to bare fiberglass or it shows through the topcoat later as a faint outline of where the sticker used to be. Customer doesn’t want that.
Next thing was the caulking. There were a few open spots up at the top of the unit where the wall meets the surround, places where the original caulk had pulled away or just never been done right to begin with. We pulled what was left of the old stuff and ran a fresh bead all the way around. Doing the caulk now instead of after the spray means it gets coated along with the rest of the unit and you don’t end up with a visible caulk line cutting across an otherwise clean finish. Looks better that way and it seals better too.
Then we masked the whole bathroom. Plastic and paper over everything that wasn’t getting sprayed — floor, fixtures, mirror, vanity, hardware, all of it. Set up the ventilation system to pull the fumes out of the house while we worked, because nobody wants to be smelling refinishing chemicals in their living room for the rest of the day. We do this on every single job, no exceptions.
With the prep done and the room buttoned up, we sprayed our coating across the whole unit. Walls, floor, the tub itself, all of it gets coated together so the finish cures as one continuous surface. Multiple coats to build the depth and the durability up to where it needs to be. After it cured, we pulled all the masking down, cleaned the room out, and walked the owner through it.
The unit went from dull, chipped, and stuck with an old sticker to a clean, shiny, bright white tub and shower combo. Looks like a brand new unit sitting in there. No more chips, no more holes, no more outline where the sticker used to be, just a smooth glossy finish from top to bottom.
This is one of the most satisfying types of jobs to do, honestly. A tired old fiberglass combo can look pretty rough before we start, and the difference at the end is night and day. If you’ve got one in your own house that’s looking dingy, chipped up, or just plain old, this is fixable. You don’t have to tear it out, you don’t have to gut the bathroom, you don’t have to spend tear-out money on a unit that’s still structurally fine. Give us a call and we’ll come take a look at it.
