How To Paint My Bathtub

This faucet went from blah to beautiful gold.

How to paint my bathtub. My personal experience in painting a bathtub with epoxy paint when my wife and i bought our latest home it came with hideous avocado green fixtures throughout the house. A beautiful easy quick and inexpensive update for your bath or powder room. Whether your old bathtub looks dingy or you re just tired of how it looks you can change its color with paint. And that s if you can even get the paint to stick in the first place.

Use a good paint brush or small roller to paint the bath tub. If your bathroom is due for a makeover breathe new life into it with a fresh paint job. The rustoleum tub tile refinishing kit says to mix the two cans of paint together. If you purchased two part epoxy mix it now.

Then use a good angled. Before purchasing bathtub paint however confirm what kind of tub you have. Before painting your porcelain bathtub you need to clean the tub with alcohol to remove any caked on debris and soap film. If your cast iron tub is looking a little rundown save some money and give it a new coat of paint rather than replacing it.

Before you get to work lay down drop cloths to keep paint off of the floor and fixtures. When prepping for paint use painter s tape to protect the tile at tub level and any fixtures around the bathtub that you could not remove in step 1. Certain paints adhere better to. Some old tubs may be cast iron or porcelain while newer tubs may be fiberglass ceramic or acrylic or have an enamel finish.

Follow up the alcohol cleaning by washing the tub with soap and water then dry the tub. Diy bath bathroom update spraypaint rustoleum bathroomideas spraypaint tutorial. Soap scum around bathtub and shower surrounds can cause your nice paint job to peel off. If large chips are present on the tub s surface clean the chip with alcohol dry the area then apply an epoxy resin to the chip.

After filling in any gaps or cracks sanding down the interior and exterior and giving it a few coats of acrylic urethane enamel paint you ll have a bathtub that looks brand new. Trisodium phosphate or tsp might be considered a miracle cleaning product because it is so inexpensive cleans off the gunk and won t compromise your paint job. This is a step by step tutorial for how to paint your bathroom faucet using spray paint and without removing the faucet from the sink. Since bathroom paint has to handle lots of moisture go with a durable mildew resistant product.

While i changed out the kitchen sink and toilets i did not want the expense or work of replacing a bathtub and instead decided to try painting it.