Painting bathtubs or replacing bathtubs? This is a dilemma for many who find their bathtubs damaged. Chips, gouges, scratches, cracks and burns are ways your bathtub could get marred. Bathtubs are made of materials like porcelain, acrylic, fiberglass or cultured marble. Restore your damaged, stained, or worn bathtubs, to their original state, by repainting, refinishing, re-glazing, or resurfacing. Kits to paint bathtubs are available for the DIY-ers, but it is best left to a professional. Restoring and painting bathtubs made from porcelain require extensive knowledge of chemicals, necessary for preparation and application.

Paint Your Bathtub - Don't Replace It

Do you want to spend money on a new bathtub, when you can make your old tub look new and that too at a fraction of the cost? Surely, you do not. Bathtub paint differs from other categories of paint as it is applied on a surface that is in constant touch with water.

Two advantages of refinishing / repainting your old bathtub:

• Saving money. When refinishing / repainting your old tub you spend a fraction of the cost of the new one. Consider the cost of the tub along with the cost of ripping out the old one, replacing the broken tiles, and repairing the floor, when you choose to replace with a new one.
• Saving time. Painting bathtubs and refinishing would keep you out of your tub for a day. Replacing with a new one could take weeks, considering the time taken to rip out the old one, install the new one, readjust, or replace plumbing. This would not be convenient for one-bathtub homes.

Even if your current bathtubs were not damaged, painting bathtubs just for aesthetics would not put a big hole in your pocket.