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Posted by Charles Bishop on June 26, 2008, 12:54 pm
I have a customer who wants his tub "touched up" after I removed a sliding
shower door. The top edge of the tub where the shower door was shows some
cracking, and pieces < 1/16" inch chipped off.
Is there a decent way to repair these? At Home Depot I saw some spray on
epoxy repair, some brush on repair but don't know which might be best. As
just a guess, I'd sand down the area, remove any chips, fill with some
sort of epoxy filler, sand again, prime and then spray on the epoxy. It
might be close enough in color that I'd only have to do the repaired area
and not have to do the rest of the tub.
Does this sound doable? If so, what to use as the expoxy filler? Any other
suggestions?
Thanks,
charles
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Posted by on June 26, 2008, 2:37 pm
On Jun 26, 12:54=A0pm, ctbis...@earthlink.net (Charles Bishop) wrote:
> I have a customer who wants his tub "touched up" after I removed a slidin=
g
> shower door. The top edge of the tub where the shower door was shows some
> cracking, and pieces < 1/16" inch chipped off.
>
> Is there a decent way to repair these? At Home Depot I saw some spray on
> epoxy repair, some brush on repair but don't know which might be best. As
> just a guess, I'd sand down the area, remove any chips, fill with some
> sort of epoxy filler, sand again, prime and then spray on the epoxy. It
> might be close enough in color that I'd only have to do the repaired area
> and not have to do the rest of the tub.
>
> Does this sound doable? If so, what to use as the expoxy filler? Any othe=
r
> suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> charles
I have used the brush on with good results. Frankly I think I
would have better luck with the bush unless I had a lot of experience
with the spray stuff.
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Posted by Charles Bishop on June 29, 2008, 9:08 pm
In article
jmeehan@columbus.rr.com wrote:
>On Jun 26, 12:54=A0pm, ctbis...@earthlink.net (Charles Bishop) wrote:
>> I have a customer who wants his tub "touched up" after I removed a slidin=
>g
>> shower door. The top edge of the tub where the shower door was shows some
>> cracking, and pieces < 1/16" inch chipped off.
>>
>> Is there a decent way to repair these? At Home Depot I saw some spray on
>> epoxy repair, some brush on repair but don't know which might be best. As
>> just a guess, I'd sand down the area, remove any chips, fill with some
>> sort of epoxy filler, sand again, prime and then spray on the epoxy. It
>> might be close enough in color that I'd only have to do the repaired area
>> and not have to do the rest of the tub.
>>
>> Does this sound doable? If so, what to use as the expoxy filler? Any othe=
>r
>> suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> charles
>
> I have used the brush on with good results. Frankly I think I
>would have better luck with the bush unless I had a lot of experience
>with the spray stuff.
Did it look smooth when you were done? Can you sand it and put on another
coat? What can be done about chips <1/16" depth, about the size of a
quarter or nickle?
--
charles
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Posted by evodawg on June 29, 2008, 10:30 pm
Charles Bishop wrote:
> In article
> jmeehan@columbus.rr.com wrote:
>
>>On Jun 26, 12:54=A0pm, ctbis...@earthlink.net (Charles Bishop) wrote:
>>> I have a customer who wants his tub "touched up" after I removed a
>>> slidin=
>>g
>>> shower door. The top edge of the tub where the shower door was shows
>>> some cracking, and pieces < 1/16" inch chipped off.
>>>
>>> Is there a decent way to repair these? At Home Depot I saw some spray on
>>> epoxy repair, some brush on repair but don't know which might be best.
>>> As just a guess, I'd sand down the area, remove any chips, fill with
>>> some sort of epoxy filler, sand again, prime and then spray on the
>>> epoxy. It might be close enough in color that I'd only have to do the
>>> repaired area and not have to do the rest of the tub.
>>>
>>> Does this sound doable? If so, what to use as the expoxy filler? Any
>>> othe=
>>r
>>> suggestions?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> charles
>>
>> I have used the brush on with good results. Frankly I think I
>>would have better luck with the bush unless I had a lot of experience
>>with the spray stuff.
>
>
> Did it look smooth when you were done? Can you sand it and put on another
> coat? What can be done about chips <1/16" depth, about the size of a
> quarter or nickle?
>
I've seen guys spray something like this on tubs with good looking results
but not sure how long it lasts. Think they used one of those HVLP guns and
compressor. He also used the same product (different color) to do a kitchen
counter top. Think you might have to do the whole tub though.
--
"You can lead them to LINUX
but you can't make them THINK"
Running Mandriva release 2008.0 free-i586 using KDE on i586
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Posted by Lee on June 26, 2008, 9:48 pm
Charles Bishop wrote:
> I have a customer who wants his tub "touched up" after I removed a sliding
> shower door. The top edge of the tub where the shower door was shows some
> cracking, and pieces < 1/16" inch chipped off.
>
> Is there a decent way to repair these? At Home Depot I saw some spray on
> epoxy repair, some brush on repair but don't know which might be best. As
> just a guess, I'd sand down the area, remove any chips, fill with some
> sort of epoxy filler, sand again, prime and then spray on the epoxy. It
> might be close enough in color that I'd only have to do the repaired area
> and not have to do the rest of the tub.
>
> Does this sound doable? If so, what to use as the expoxy filler? Any other
> suggestions?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> charles
I had my whole tub refinished in a house I'm selling. When I was looking
for a company, I noticed that a number of them advertised that they did
repair work. Since they have the expertise and the equipment, maybe just
suggest the person hire one of those companies. Most of the sites have
before & after pix of crack repairs.
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