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Wrapped up a tub reglazing job up in Angelus Oaks recently, and this one’s a good lesson in why surface prep is everything in this trade. It was a porcelain tub, and overall it was in pretty good shape — solid, no cracking, no major damage. It just had two things working against it that needed to be handled right before any coating went on.
The first issue was the bottom of the tub. It had the molded anti-slip texture down there, the kind a lot of tubs come with, and over the years all the grime and staining had worked its way down into that texture and gotten stuck. That’s a really common problem with textured tub bottoms — the same grip that keeps you from slipping also traps dirt, soap film, and stains down in the low spots where a normal cleaning just glides right over them. So the bottom looked dingy and discolored even though the rest of the tub was fine.
The second issue, and the bigger one, was silicone. The owner had pulled off his old shower door because he was planning to put in a new one after we refinished the tub, and removing that door left a trail of old silicone sitting right on the tub surface. Now, silicone is the number one enemy of anybody who refinishes tubs. I can’t stress that enough. It does not matter how many coats of coating you spray over silicone — it will always show through, and it’ll bleed right up into the new finish and ruin it. You can’t paint your way past it. The only fix is to get it completely off the surface before you start, down to the last bit, and that’s exactly where we put our attention first.
To pull the silicone off, we worked it with a blade knife to lift and scrape the bulk of it, then went after the residue with several different grades of sandpaper to make sure none of it was left hiding on the surface. It’s tedious, but skipping it isn’t an option — get lazy here and the whole job fails later. Once the silicone was gone, we removed all the old caulking around the top of the tub too, since old caulk is almost always cracked or pulling loose anyway and it’s the right time to deal with it.
Then we moved into a deep cleaning, and we focused hard on that textured bottom. Since the grime was packed down into the anti-slip texture, a surface wipe wasn’t going to cut it — we had to really work the bottom and scrub it out to get all that buildup lifted out of the low spots so the coating would lay down clean and even. Once the bottom was actually clean, the surface was finally ready.
From there it’s our usual process, done the way it should be every time. We laid fresh caulking around the top, masked off the entire bathroom to keep overspray from settling anywhere it shouldn’t, and set up our commercial ventilation system to pull the fumes out of the house and keep the air clear during spraying. Then we sprayed down a bright white finish, building it up in even coats. The result was what it always is when the prep is done right — a clean, shiny white tub that looked and felt completely fresh, ready for the customer to hang his new shower door.
That’s really the whole story of tub reglazing. It’s not about the spraying — anybody can spray. It’s about the prep underneath it: killing the silicone, clearing the texture, getting the surface dead clean so the finish bonds and lasts. We come in, handle all of that, refinish the tub in a single day, and you walk away with a tub that looks brand new for a fraction of what a replacement runs, backed by our warranty.
We cover a wide stretch of Southern California — all of Orange County, plus San Bernardino and Riverside across the Inland Empire, including the mountain towns like Angelus Oaks. Whether it’s a stained porcelain tub, a fiberglass shower, or tile that’s lost its shine, refinishing is usually worth a look before you commit to a full tear-out.
If you’ve got a tub or shower you’ve been thinking about, give us a call. We give honest estimates — if reglazing is the right call for your tub, we’ll tell you, and if it isn’t, we’ll be straight with you about that too.
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