A dull or chipped tub in Lansdowne 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You wake up every morning and stare at that stained, outdated tub in your home. This eyesore drags down your whole mood before your day even starts. Fortunately, a highly affordable surface restoration process can completely transform your old fixture in just a few hours.
By opting for this smart refinishing method, you skip the massive mess of a full remodel. Our skilled local team comes right to your home to strip away the old layers and apply a fresh, glossy finish. This means you get a sparkling clean basin without the high cost of buying a brand new one.
We believe everyone deserves a beautiful home, which is why we offer a free estimate to get you started. If you live in this cozy corner of Baltimore County, you can easily upgrade your space today. Let us help you fall in love with your bathroom all over again!
To understand why this process is so popular, you have to look at how we actually apply the new finish. First, we thoroughly clean the existing porcelain or fiberglass to remove decades of soap scum and hard water deposits. This crucial step ensures the new coating bonds perfectly to the original material.
Next, we repair any deep chips, cracks, or rust spots that make your tub look old and worn out. This fixing stage creates a perfectly smooth canvas for the next steps. After that, we apply a specialized bonding agent that acts like superglue for the liquid acrylic topcoat.
Finally, we spray on several coats of a high-tech aliphatic polyurethane finish that cures into a rock-hard shell. This shiny new layer looks exactly like brand new porcelain but costs a fraction of the price. You get a gorgeous, easy-to-clean surface that resists stains and lasts for many years to come.
Many homeowners think they need to rip out their entire bathing unit to get a clean look. However, demolition work often reveals hidden problems like rotted floor joists or moldy drywall behind the surround. These unexpected issues can easily double your plumbing budget and stretch a simple job into a weeks-long nightmare.
On top of that, finding a new unit that fits your existing plumbing layout can be incredibly tricky. This struggle often requires hiring expensive plumbers to relocate your pipes and drains. Which means you spend thousands of dollars just to get back to where you started.
Our fast restoration service avoids all of these headaches by keeping your original fixture right where it is. This keeps the mess to an absolute minimum and saves your sanity. You get to keep your original heavy-duty cast iron tub while enjoying a pristine, modern look.
To help you see the financial benefits, we put together a simple breakdown of your options. This table highlights how much money you save when you choose our specialized recoating service over a full replacement.
| Project Details | Full Replacement Demolition | Our Specialized Recoating Service |
|---|---|---|
| Average Cost | $3,000 - $8,000 | $350 - $650 |
| Project Duration | 1 to 2 weeks | 4 to 6 hours | Mess & Dust Level | Extremely high | Very low and contained |
As you can see, the savings are truly massive when you choose to restore instead of replace. This financial relief is especially helpful for local families working with a median household income of around $38,626. You can use those extra savings for other important home improvements or a fun weekend trip.
Furthermore, our process is incredibly eco-friendly because it keeps heavy cast iron and fiberglass out of our local landfills. This green choice helps preserve the beautiful environment around our community of 8,571 residents. You get a stunning bathroom while doing your part to protect our local planet.
When you hire our team, we start by masking off your entire bathroom with protective plastic sheets. This careful preparation keeps your floors, walls, and vanity completely safe from any overspray. We also set up a powerful exhaust fan to vent all fumes safely out of the nearest window.
Then, we use a special acid etching compound to create microscopic pores in the old porcelain glaze. This physical change allows our primer to grip the surface with incredible strength. Without this step, the new finish would peel off like a bad sunburn within just a few months.
Once the primer dries, we carefully spray the acrylic polyurethane using professional high-volume, low-pressure equipment. This advanced tool allows us to apply an incredibly even coat without any brush marks or runs. After a short curing period, we remove the tape and leave your bathroom looking spotless.
To keep your restored surface looking like a shiny mirror, you must use the right cleaning products. This means avoiding abrasive powders, bleach, or rough scrubbing pads that can scratch the delicate acrylic finish. Instead, you should use mild liquid dish soap or a gentle foaming bathroom cleaner.
Additionally, you should never leave wet washcloths or bottles of shampoo sitting on the ledge for long periods. This standing water can eventually break down the bond between the new coating and the old tub. By following these simple rules, your gorgeous new finish will stay bright and beautiful for over a decade.
We love working in this historic Maryland community, which is filled with charming homes built in different eras. Many of these local houses feature classic cast iron tubs that are way better quality than modern plastic ones. Our mission is to save these vintage treasures and restore them to their former glory.
Whether you live near the local parks or close to the highway, our mobile workshop is always ready to roll. We cover the entire local ZIP code area and the surrounding Baltimore County neighborhoods every single day. This close proximity allows us to arrive on time and finish our work without any annoying delays.
Because we are local, we understand the unique challenges of maintaining older homes in this region. This hands-on experience helps us tackle stubborn rust spots and old DIY paint jobs with ease. You can trust our friendly crew to treat your home with the utmost respect and care.
Are you ready to stop squinting at those ugly yellow stains every time you take a shower? This simple, stress-free upgrade is just a quick phone call or message away. We make the entire process incredibly easy from start to finish.
By requesting a free quote, you get an honest, upfront price with absolutely no hidden fees or obligations. We will look at your project, explain your color options, and help you find the best path forward. This transparent approach ensures you know exactly what to expect before we even touch your tub.
Do not spend another day feeling embarrassed when guests use your hallway bathroom. Let our hard-working local experts bring back the shine and cleanliness you deserve. Contact us today to schedule your estimate and take the first step toward a brighter, happier home!
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 Lansdowne, 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