A picture is worth a thousand words. http://www.911why.blogspot.com/ Click on the link and see what I am facing. Actually there 2 tubs in this house with the same kind of paint on the tub. This house is a rental unit in Harrisburg PA and I want to sell it. I would like to paint these tubs with something that will last a few years. I would hate to spend thousands of dollars to replace each tub. This is an inner city property worth about $65K.
Any advice, and no I am not calling bath fitters to reline my tub for $3000 each. Again, any advice?
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Hey Elijah,
I found this somewhere on-line, so I can't vouch for the procedure...
Phat
How to Paint a Tub…
I’m not gonna tell you this is a fix all forever, but it should hold up pretty good.
Take a red scuff pad and dawn dishwashing soap scrub, scrub, scrub especially where any silicone caulk could have been, and rinse, take another scuff pad soak with lacquer thinner and scrub - wear really good-wear respirator.
You should be pretty clean now.
Get some muriatic acid and wash tub, if rust spot is still there get some navel jelly and clean the rust up.
Find an automotive paint dealer that handles ppg/ditzler paint. Buy a qt of dp epoxy primer in gray, maybe a little bit of two part primer also if the rust spot is still rough. Buy a qt of acrylic urethane in white with thinner. You must wear a mask with all this stuff!!!!!!
Spray the dp product on and let dry 1 hour. If the rust spot is rough put a couple coats of primer on it and let it dry and sand that spot. The dp product does not need sanded.
Put 2-3 coats of white on and the tub should look new again.
I’m not sure how long this will last for you but a car painted like this will do 8-10yrs sitting outside. Don’t scrub with abrasives; it's just like your car now. One good thing, if it looks like crap 7 yrs from now put paint stripper on it and go again.
Materials will cost about 125-150
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If it were me...I'd take down the first course of tile carefully and reset a new fiberglass tub in.
In the long run it'll be easier than anything else I can think of not to mention less expensive..
You can get a new tub for a few hundred bucks or even less...and guess what? You'll have a "new" tub!!
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