We’re about to redo our main bathroom and I would love to save the old tub – I’m guessing it’s from the 1940s, perhaps earlier. The only comparable tub I have found is at Waterworks and costs $10k, which is really out of the stratosphere. So I’d like to have it refinished, but not reglazed – seems like reglazing makes things look better but doesn’t last more than a few years. I’d rather spend some money to have it done properly if the alternative is a standard issue tub. Has anyone done this? I found lots of threads on reglazing but haven’t found any good recs for someone who can restore the tub (I assume onsite).<\/p>\n
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We’re about to redo our main bathroom and I would love to save the old tub – I’m guessing it’s from the 1940s, perhaps earlier. The only comparable tub I have found is at Waterworks and costs $10k, which is really out of the stratosphere. So I’d like to have it refinished, but not reglazed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10607,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-35077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kitchen_bath"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/08\/reenameling-tub\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Re-Enameling Tub?","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/08\/reenameling-tub\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/08\/reenameling-tub\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Kitchen & Bath","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"brooklyny"}],"creator":["brooklyny"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2009-08-11T13:17:56Z","datePublished":"2009-08-11T13:17:56Z","dateModified":"2009-08-16T21:35:20Z"},"rendered":"