Bathtub Refinishing Hawaii
 | Bathtub Refinishing Hawaii Oahu Tub Experts provides the highest quality, affordable bathroom and kitchen repair and refinishing services throughout Hawaii. We refinish bathtubs, showers, wall tile, bathroom sinks, and bathroom and kitchen sinks. We are the only Hawaii bathtub refinishing that specializes in helping Realtors, investors, and sellers. However, we’ve also refinished thousands of fixtures for home owners. So if you are an owner-occupant, use who the pros use! - Bathtub Refinishing Hawaii The major benefits of bathtub refinishing are: • Costs about 10-15% the cost of replacement – Use this saved money for other rennovations • Costs about a third as much as bathtub liner • Saved time, cost certainty, and simplicity – With refinishing, you will know exactly what it will cost, and you will know that we will be finished in 3-5 hours. You will also only deal with one company. Replacement typically takes at least 3 days. Cost overruns may occur, and you will likely have to deal with at least three contractors • Great for the environment – Going green is reusing and not replacing. Throwing away a bathtub is a waste of landfill space, and materials that go into manufacturing your new bathtub. That being said, if done improperly, bathtub refinishing can be a disaster. Unfortunately there are many substandard refinishers in Hawaii who cut corners in order to save a little bit of time and effort. About 40% of our work is correcting other refinisher’s mistakes. We do not rush, we do not skip steps, and we use the very best products formulated specifically for bathtub reglazing available on the market. CLICK HERE for our tips on choosing a refinisher. CHOICE Oahu Tub Experts is the only bathtub refinishing Hawaii company that offers you choice, because we know no situation or circumstance is the same. Our standard coating is our 2-Hour Cure “Low VOC” coating. An option we offer is our Eco-Glaze bathtub reglazing coating. Our standard coating is the most eco-friendly solvent-based coating on the market. It has minimal odor compared to other coatings, and we add a bubblegum scent to make it more pleasant. We also have an advanced exhaust system that will vent the bathroom air directly outside. Our Eco-Glaze coating has no discernible odor. This is a good solution for owner-occupied homes with occupants that are elderly, kids, or are extremely sensitive to smell. The negatives to Eco-Glaze is that it takes 24 hours to cure, is slightly more expensive, and the coating isn’t quite as glossy. Oahu Tub Experts is the only Honolulu bathtub refinishing company that offers a water-based coating. Under many circumstances we can also offer our commercial bathtub refinishing coating in residences. This coating is highly durable, and is designed for use in hotels, and in harsh fully immersed environments such as swimming pools and hot tubs. We are able to offer an industry-leading 6 year warranty when we apply our commercial coating to residential fixtures. ABOUT ACID ETCHING A nationally known bathtub refinishing franchise was born out of scaring people about acid etching. So what is it and why and when is it necessary? There are two ways to make a new finish adhere to the existing bathtub: physical and chemical. Physical adhesion uses a chemical called etch to rough up the existing surface so that the new surface has something to stick to. With porcelain bathtubs, the only way to do this is with acid etching. Fiberglass tubs, we simply use a sander. With chemical adhesion, a molecular bonding primer is used to join the new surface with the old. Bathtub Refinishing Hawaii Some Hawaii bathtub refinishers claim “acid etching” is bad. They do this to try to steer you toward their “spray less restoration” methods (which we also offer). The fact is that many fixtures simply aren’t good candidates for restoration, and etch is often necessary to get the job done right. When properly handled and applied, etch is perfectly safe. |
