All over Saint Louis County, worn bathtubs are resurfaced in place: repairs first, gloss second, fresh caulk on the way out.
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.
Maybe you are staring at a sad, stained tub that looks like it belongs in a horror movie. Thankfully, you can completely transform that ugly bathroom fixture in just one afternoon without ripping out your walls. Our local team comes right to your home in the Gateway Arch region to restore your daily bathing space to its former glory.
This budget-friendly process saves you thousands of dollars compared to a messy demolition. By choosing this smart update, you skip the dusty chaos of traditional remodeling while still getting a glossy, beautiful surface. You can grab a free estimate today to see how affordable this transformation really is.
Instead of throwing your heavy cast iron or fiberglass basin into a landfill, we apply a high-tech liquid acrylic coating directly over your existing fixture. This specialized chemical bonding process creates a completely new, non-porous outer shell that looks identical to brand new porcelain. Our skilled technicians meticulously prep the area so the new finish sticks forever.
First, we strip away the old, failing glaze and clean the surface with industrial-strength cleaners to remove decades of soap scum. Next, we repair any deep chips, rust spots, or ugly cracks with a durable waterproof filler. Finally, we spray multiple layers of a premium acrylic polyurethane gloss that cures into a rock-hard, shiny masterpiece.
| The Quick Fix Way | The Full Replacement Nightmare |
|---|---|
| Finished in about four to five hours | Takes weeks of loud demolition work |
| Costs a fraction of a new installation | Requires expensive plumbers and tilers |
| No permits or wall damage required | Often uncovers hidden mold and costly pipe issues |
Because we use professional-grade bonding agents, the new finish actually fuses with the old material on a molecular level. This means you do not have to worry about the surface peeling off when you take a hot shower. You get a pristine, sparkling bathroom centerpiece that stands up to daily use for many years to come.
Living in this beautiful Midwestern hub means dealing with old historic homes that feature gorgeous, heavy vintage tubs. Many of these classic fixtures in Saint Louis County have character you simply cannot find in modern big-box stores. Our specialized service allows you to preserve that vintage charm while completely erasing decades of stains and scratches.
With a local population of nearly one million residents, our community contains a huge variety of housing styles, from mid-century ranches to historic brick estates. Whether you reside in ZIP codes like 63105, 63119, or 63130, you know that home maintenance can quickly drain your wallet. Given that the median household income in our area sits around $84,000, smart spending is always a top priority for local families.
By opting for a quick surface renewal instead of a full tear-out, you keep your hard-earned money in your pocket. This cost-effective alternative keeps your home looking top-notch without blowing your yearly budget on a single bathroom. On top of that, you avoid the headache of having dusty construction workers trampling through your house for weeks.
Old worn-out porcelain becomes incredibly porous over time, which turns your tub into a magnet for dirt, grime, and mildew. This means you end up spending your precious weekends scrubbing on your hands and knees with harsh chemicals. Our ultra-smooth protective coating seals up all those microscopic pores so dirt slips right down the drain.
Now, you can clean your bathroom with a simple swipe of a mild soap and a soft microfiber cloth. This saves your back from painful scrubbing sessions and keeps your bathroom smelling fresh without chemical fumes. Your daily chore list suddenly gets a lot shorter, giving you more free time to enjoy your life.
If you plan to put your property on the local real estate market, an ugly, stained bathroom will immediately scare away potential buyers. Most folks do not want to buy a house and immediately start dealing with plumbing contractors. A shiny, gleaming wash basin makes your entire bathroom feel clean, modern, and inviting.
This quick cosmetic upgrade provides an incredible return on investment because it costs so little but looks so expensive. Buyers will think you spent a fortune on a brand new bathroom suite, which helps your home sell much faster. It is one of the easiest ways to add instant appeal to your property without any real hassle.
When you invite us into your home, we treat your property with the utmost respect and care. We start by masking off your entire bathroom with protective paper and plastic sheets to shield your walls, floors, and vanity from any overspray. Our team also sets up a powerful ventilation fan system to pull any fumes out of your house during the process.
Then, we apply a special acid etching liquid that creates microscopic pores in the old porcelain so the new coating can grip tightly. After neutralizing the acid and drying the surface completely, we patch up every single ding, scratch, and rusty spot. This preparation phase is actually the most critical part of the job, ensuring the final finish stays beautiful for a decade.
Once the prep work is flawless, we spray on our proprietary bonding agent, followed by several coats of top-tier acrylic resin. This liquid magic flows together to form a perfectly level, mirror-like finish that looks incredibly luxurious. After a short curing period, we remove our protective materials, clean up our work area, and leave you with a stunning, transformed space.
You might see cheap paint-on kits at your local home improvement store and think about tackling this project yourself over the weekend. However, those retail store kits contain cheap epoxy paints that lack the chemical bonding agents used by real professionals. Without proper chemical etching and commercial spray equipment, the DIY paint will quickly start to bubble, peel, and flake off.
Within a few months of hot showers, your self-painted tub will look way worse than it did before you started. Even worse, stripping off a failed DIY paint job is incredibly difficult and ends up costing you twice as much money in the long run. Trusting our experienced hands means the job gets done right the first time with commercial-grade materials that actually last.
We also use specialized safety gear and professional exhaust systems to handle the strong fumes safely. Trying to spray these heavy-duty coatings without proper ventilation can be dangerous for your health and fill your entire house with strong odors. We handle all the safety risks and technical details so you can just sit back, relax, and enjoy the beautiful results.
Why spend another day bathing in a stained, outdated tub that makes you cringe every time you walk past it? Our friendly local team is ready to visit your home and provide a completely free, no-obligation estimate customized for your specific bathroom needs. We will inspect your fixture, explain our process, and show you how easy it is to get that clean look you deserve.
Taking this simple step will save you thousands of dollars while completely transforming the feel of your entire home. Let us help you fall in love with your bathroom all over again with our fast, clean, and affordable surface renewal service. Contact us right now to claim your free quote and take the first step toward a brighter, cleaner 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, 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.
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Somewhere under that worn surface is the tub you chose. One day brings it back.
Call (866) 951-0558