Make Your Tub Sparkle Again!

Yikes, your clients love everything about the house you showed them except for the dingy tub in the bathroom. Instead of busting their budget by suggesting an expensive new installation, here are some money-saving tips to rescue that tired tub from the scrap heap:
Quick repairs: If your tub is just discolored or dingy, apply some fiberglass cleaner purchased from your local hardware store to restore its former luster. If the porcelain or fiberglass veneer is chipped, plug the holes with bathtub chip filler — a fiberglass-based compound that comes in matching colors.
Reglazing: This process, costing between $300 and $500, uses high-powered industrial solvents to scour and prepare the tub's surface for a new finish. Most of these finishes are sprayed on and cured chemically with heat lamps. An affordable alternative to replacement, the process lasts up to five years.
Bathtub liner: A method favored by the hotel industry, a bathtub liner can be best compared to crowning a tooth. The existing tub remains in place and is completely covered with a form-fitted acrylic tub liner. Manufacturers, charging between $400 and $600, boast of having molds to fit virtually any tub. Although simple to install, liners slightly reduce tub volume and are less lustrous than porcelain finishes.