Hi, I have seen it done professionally, usually to restore those old claw foot tubs that people like to have for nostalgic purposes where price isn't the object. Mostly though I think it is a professional job, pretty difficult as a D Y I project. If your cleaner doesn't do it I think I would have it replaced. A liner will look like what it is, a liner and people will know what is under it. Well they will wonder what is under it. You could leave it as is and discount the asking price or you could replace the tub which would be my inclination. For the same thousand bucks you could probably have a builder in to do the job and it will be a nice new shiny tub. Since homes generally are sold by their bathrooms and kitchens you may not get a lot more but it might make the difference between selling or not.
Hope this is helpful. ----- Original Message ----- From: Shawn Keen To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 10:09 AM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] bathtub Hey Folks, I was here a few years ago with some questions and now I am back. I am looking in to selling my house, believe it or not but there are some good areas for the housing market in Texas, and thankfully I am in one of them. My agent came out and looked over my house, I need to do some painting and some other odds and ends sort of stuff. That won't be a problem. My Porcelain bathtub however isn't good, I have some hard core cleaner coming from online, The word is that if this stuff won't clean it nothing will. So in order to get a nice, white and shiny tub again I could get it reglazed, get a new one or get what is called a tub fitter. New tubs are not all that expensive 2 or 300, but getting one installed is another story. The tubb fitter idea is some sort of shell that fits over your tub, they start out around 900. So how difficult would reglazing my tub be? Has anyone done this sort of thing? Thanks Shawn [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
