A dull or chipped tub in Florence does not need a demolition crew. It needs one technician, one day and a sprayed finish that shines.
One number reaches the technician who would hold the gun. The figure comes on the call, not after a visit.
(866) 951-0558The voice on the line belongs to the trade, not to a switchboard reading a script. Two minutes of plain description are enough to price a standard tub.
You look at your stained tub every day and sigh because those ugly chips and faded colors make the whole room feel dirty.
Replacing it sounds like an absolute nightmare that will tear up your walls and cost you thousands of hard earned dollars.
Fortunately, our local resurfacing team can spray a gorgeous, durable liquid porcelain coating over your existing fixture to make it look brand new in just one day.
This budget friendly method saves you from the massive headache of hiring plumbers and carting heavy cast iron to the landfill.
Which means you get a glossy, slip resistant surface without the dust, noise, and weeks of waiting.
You can claim your free quote today to see how easily we can transform your bathing space.
First of all, ripping out an old tub usually ruins your floor tiles and drywall.
This means a simple swap quickly spirals into a full scale remodeling disaster that drains your savings account.
Our high tech spraying process bypasses all that demolition drama by working directly with what you already have in place.
On top of that, older fixtures are often built way better than the cheap plastic stuff you buy at big box stores nowadays.
By keeping your heavy duty original tub, you preserve that classic sturdiness while updating the color to a clean, modern white.
We use special chemical cleaners and industrial grade bonding agents to ensure the new layer sticks forever.
Actually, the whole process only takes about four to six hours from the time we walk in to when we pack up.
You do not even have to worry about weird paint smells lingering in your home for weeks because we set up professional exhaust fans.
This allows you to jump back into your normal routine and use your shower again after just twenty four hours of curing time.
To start, we scrub the surface with heavy duty acids to strip away decades of soap scum and hard water deposits.
This step is super important because even a tiny speck of grease can cause the new finish to peel up later.
We then patch up any deep rust spots, cracks, or unsightly chips with a waterproof polyester filler.
After that, we spray on a proprietary molecular bonding primer that acts like superglue between the old porcelain and the new coating.
Then we apply several layers of a premium acrylic urethane topcoat using specialized high volume, low pressure spray guns.
This technique gives you that ultra smooth, glass like sheen that looks exactly like a brand new factory finish.
If you live in this quiet, rural part of Stephenson County, you know how important it is to make your hard earned money stretch.
With a local median household income of twenty nine thousand five hundred eighty three dollars, spending five grand on a bathroom remodel is simply out of the question for most families.
Our restoration service offers a smart alternative that costs a small fraction of a traditional replacement.
Even with a tiny local population of just sixty one residents, we treat every single home like it belongs to our own family.
We love helping folks in the area update their older properties without taking on massive, unnecessary debt.
Whether your home is a historic farmhouse or a cozy cottage, we bring top tier craftsmanship right to your doorstep.
To help you compare your options, we put together a handy table showing the differences between the two main ways to fix up your tub:
| Project Factor | Our Spray On Restoration | Full Tub Replacement |
|---|---|---|
| Average Cost | Very affordable, budget friendly | Extremely expensive with hidden fees |
| Time to Complete | Usually 4 to 6 hours | 3 to 7 days of messy construction |
| Mess & Dust | Virtually none, we clean up fully | Tons of drywall dust and broken tile |
| Lifespan | 10 to 15 years with proper care | Varies depending on the material bought |
Once we finish our magic, you need to treat the new surface with a little bit of love to make it last for fifteen years.
You should never use abrasive scrubbing powders or harsh bleach because those scratchy chemicals will dull the shiny gloss over time.
Instead, we recommend using mild liquid dish soaps or gentle foaming cleansers along with a soft microfiber cloth.
Another great tip is to avoid leaving wet washcloths or shampoo bottles sitting on the ledge of the tub for days.
Standing water trapped under those items can eventually weaken the bond and cause tiny blisters to form in the coating.
Taking these simple precautions ensures your bathroom stays looking like a high end luxury retreat for a very long time.
Maybe your tub is still in okay shape physically, but it is stuck in a 1970s time warp of avocado green or dusty rose.
Those funky vintage colors make it almost impossible to decorate your bathroom without everything clashing horribly.
We can easily spray over those dated hues with a bright, clean white or a soft biscuit color to instantly modernize the room.
This simple color swap makes your entire bathroom feel twice as big and significantly brighter.
It also adds instant value to your property if you ever decide to pack up and sell your home down the road.
Buyers love seeing clean, sparkling bathrooms, and they will never guess that your gorgeous tub is actually a restored original.
Are you ready to stop hiding your ugly bathroom behind a thick shower curtain?
Our friendly crew is standing by to visit your home and give you a completely free, no obligation price quote.
We pride ourselves on honest pricing, so the number we give you is exactly what you will pay with zero hidden surprises.
Since we are based right here near the ZIP codes of this lovely Illinois community, we can schedule your appointment quickly.
Do not waste another day scrubbing a stained, worn out surface that will never actually get clean.
Contact us right now to book your free consultation and take the first step toward the beautiful bathroom you deserve!
Three quiet stages carry the whole result. They are also the ones nobody sees in the after photo.
Stage 1 of 3
A reglaze fails or lasts on what happens before the gun comes out. The old surface gets scrubbed of soap film and silicone, etched or primed so the new material has something to grip, then wet sanded until it feels like fine paper. Skip any of that and the prettiest coat in the world lets go within a year, which is exactly the story most peeling tubs tell us.
Stage 2 of 3
Chips, rust blooms and worn drain rings are ground back to sound material and rebuilt with polyester filler, then sanded flush until a fingertip cannot find the spot. Coating over damage only photographs well on day one; a repair you cannot feel is what keeps the finish honest for years.
Stage 3 of 3
The topcoat goes on in fine sprayed passes with an extractor pulling air out the window the whole time. Sprayed layers flow together into one even skin, which is why the result reads as gloss rather than as paint. Brushes and rollers leave the texture that gives cheap refinishing its reputation.
Three real ways out of a worn tub. We only do the first one, so the other two columns are simply what we would tell a friend.
| The question | Reglazing in place | Acrylic liner | Full replacement |
|---|---|---|---|
| What a standard tub costs | $350 to $800 | $1,600 to $4,000 | $3,000 to $10,000 once walls and plumbing join in |
| Bathroom out of action | One day, then the cure | Weeks of lead time, then a fitting day | One to two weeks of trades |
| Demolition involved | None at all | None, but the old tub is sealed inside | Walls opened, floor patched, debris hauled |
| Honest life expectancy | Five years and up when cared for | Long, unless water creeps between the shells | Decades |
| Watch out for | Prep shortcuts by cut-rate crews | A spongy feel and hidden moisture | The budget doubling mid-project |
If your tub is cracked through, actively leaking underneath, or you simply want a different fixture, reglazing is the wrong tool, a verdict you will hear on the very first call.
Pass 1
Soap scum, silicone and old wax stripped, then the surface etched or bonded so the coating can bite.
Pass 2
Every ding ground out, filled and sanded flush. The repairs disappear under the coating instead of through it.
Pass 3
Tile, faucet, floor and glass papered off. Overspray lands on masking paper, never on grout or chrome.
Pass 4
Primer, then gloss coats laid on in thin passes until the surface reads as one poured skin.
Pass 5
The finish hardens on its own clock, 24 to 48 hours. We tape the door and leave the tub in peace.
Pass 6
Old caulk goes out with the old finish. A new mildew-resistant bead seals tub to tile on the way out.
A reglazed tub is your old tub wearing a professional coating. That is a fine thing to be, as long as everyone knows it going in.
A sprayed acrylic urethane skin, bonded to prepared porcelain, steel or fiberglass. It is smooth, glossy, warm to the touch and fully waterproof. Done properly it gives five years and more of daily service, and plenty of our tubs sail well past that with nothing but gentle cleaning.
It is not factory enamel fired onto iron at kiln temperatures, and no honest refinisher will tell you otherwise. It can be scratched by grit, dulled by harsh powders and lifted by standing water in a spot where caulk has failed. It is a durable coating, not a new tub, and it is priced like one.
Two minutes
ZIP, what the tub is made of, what bothers you about it. Said out loud it goes faster than typing, and a photo can follow later if the case is odd.
The same call
The technician who would do the work asks his questions and names a firm figure for a standard job, then confirms it in writing before any van is booked.
You set the date
One van, one technician, drop cloths from the front door to the bathroom. Water off for nothing; only the tub is out of service.
Most of that day
Damage filled and sanded, the room masked, extractor running, then the primer and gloss coats go on in thin, even passes.
24 to 48 hours
The finish hardens untouched, the new caulk bead goes in, and you run the first bath knowing exactly what was done and what to expect of it.
| What we quote | Typical range | Reading the number |
|---|---|---|
| Standard bathtub, reglazed complete | $350 - $800 | Clean, etch, repairs, sprayed gloss and fresh caulk. |
| Chip or rust repair alone | $150 - $300 | When the finish is sound and only one wound needs closing. |
| Clawfoot tub, inside and out | $700 - $1,300 | Two surfaces, more masking, and paint-grade feet if you wish. |
| Shower pan or base | $300 - $550 | Same process on the floor you stand on every morning. |
| Caulk renewal with the job | $90 - $180 | Old bead cut out, mildew-resistant line laid in. |
| Small job minimum | around $250 | The van, the materials and the cure time exist even for tiny work. |
Heavy previous coatings that must be stripped, unusual colors and badly pitted iron push a job toward the top of its bracket. The written price reaches you before the van is even loaded, and it holds.
Ventilation is not a courtesy, it is part of the job. The extractor runs from the first solvent wipe to the last sprayed pass, pulling air out the window instead of through your hallway, and the technician wears supplied air even when the household has gone out for the day. By the evening the bathroom smells like a bathroom again.
The materials are the professional two-part systems made for this trade, mixed fresh on site, never the single-can kits sold next to the paint rollers. It is the difference between a finish that cures into a hard skin and one that stays soft enough to peel at the drain within a season, and it is most of the reason our work carries a written workmanship promise against peeling and loss of adhesion.
And the schedule respects the cure. We tell you in writing when the tub goes back into service, 24 hours for most jobs and 48 for the cautious ones, because handing a family a beautiful surface and letting them ruin it that same night helps nobody. If anything in our workmanship lets go early, the technician comes back and makes it right without a discussion about whose fault the water was.
Strong while spraying, gone surprisingly fast. The extractor vents the room to the outside for the whole job around Florence, so the rest of the home stays livable, and by the next morning the odor has left with the fumes. Pregnant households and bird owners get the frank version of this talk before booking.
Between 24 and 48 hours after the final coat, and the exact time is written on the paperwork you keep. The first bath is not a gamble; it is a date.
Any color. The most common request is retiring an avocado, pink or almond tub to white, and the coating is tinted before it is sprayed, so the new color is in the material rather than painted over it.
Yes. The prep changes, the primer changes, the result reads the same. Fiberglass with soft, flexing spots gets extra reinforcement talk first, because coating a moving floor is how warranties die.
Now the old coating comes fully off, which is honest work we price plainly, and then the job proceeds as if the tub had never been touched. Peeling almost always means the first crew skipped the etch or sprayed over silicone, not that your tub rejects coatings.
Five years is the floor we are comfortable promising out loud, not the ceiling. With soft cleaners, no standing mats and caulk kept sound, these finishes routinely serve a decade. What we refuse to do is whisper twenty and hope you lose our number.
Zoom for the lay of the land; the link lists further down name every community the van reaches from here.
The technician who picks up when you call works these streets, so the ledger below is home turf rather than trivia.
Somewhere under that worn surface is the tub you chose. One day brings it back.
Call (866) 951-0558