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We recently took on a porcelain tub reglazing job in Jurupa Valley, and this one’s worth talking about because the problem behind it is something I see all the time. The tub had been painted at some point, and the entire bottom was peeling off in sheets. Now, peeling like that doesn’t just happen on its own. When I took a closer look, the cause was clear — a bath mat with suction cups.
This is one of the biggest reasons a reglazed or coated tub starts to fail, and most people have no idea. Those little suction cups grip onto the surface, and every time you peel the mat up off the tub, you’re pulling on the coating right along with it. Do that day after day, and eventually the suction wins. It lifts the finish off the surface, and once it starts peeling in one spot, it spreads. That’s exactly what happened here.
So before I did anything else, I let the owner know what was going on. I told him straight — the suction-cup mat is what caused this, and once we refinish the tub, he’s going to need to switch to a different type of bath mat, one without suction cups, or we’ll be right back here in a year. That part matters to me. I’d rather a customer understand why something failed than just fix it and watch it happen again.
With that out of the way, we got to work. I went straight into a deep sanding to take off the old paint and coating. Once the previous coating was sanded down and removed, I pulled the silicone out from all the way around the tub and along the shower rail. Old silicone gets brittle and dirty, and you can’t lay a clean finish around it, so it all has to come out. After that came the deep cleaning, scrubbing the whole surface down until there was nothing left to interfere with the new coating.
This tub had a couple of chips too, so I filled them with fiberglass body filler and sanded them back flush. Body filler is the right tool for that — it builds the surface back up solid so the spot is level and won’t telegraph through the finish. A lot of these older porcelain tubs are cast iron underneath the enamel, and the same repair approach carries over whether I’m doing porcelain tub reglazing or cast iron tub refinishing. Solid prep is solid prep.
Once the repairs were done and the surface was ready, I masked off the entire room. Walls, floor, fixtures, anything that wasn’t the tub got taped and covered. Reglazing throws a fine overspray that drifts onto every surface it can find, so I seal the room off completely before I spray a thing. Then I laid down the bright white coating across the whole tub.
That’s where it all paid off. The tub went from a peeling, painted-over mess to a smooth, glossy, bright white finish that completely changed the look of the bathroom. It’s amazing what a properly refinished tub does for a space — it brightens everything up and makes the whole room feel clean and new again. The owner was thrilled, and now that he knows to keep the suction cups away from it, that finish is going to hold for years.
This job was in Jurupa Valley, but we handle porcelain tub reglazing and cast iron tub refinishing all over Riverside, San Bernardino, and Orange County. Painted tubs, peeling finishes, chips, dated colors — whatever you’re dealing with, we’ll bring it back for a fraction of what replacement costs. We give honest estimates and we’ll always tell you straight what caused the problem and what it’ll take to fix it right.
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