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What does installing bathtub liners involve?
A surprisingly simple process.
Bathtub liners are the quiet revolution of the home remodeling trade. The quality of the result has been evolving over the last twenty years, and is now favored by the hotel industry as the most cost effective way of elegantly updating their bathroom installations.
Remodeling a bathroom generally entails gutting, demolition, tiling and plumbing; it may take weeks and cost a significant amount of money.
Installing bathtub liners and covering walls with acrylic custom wall surrounds may take a day or two and can be completed at a fraction of the cost. If you were unaware this solution existed, that may be because today's results are so good you can barely notice the difference from reglazing.
The newest and best bathtub liners are made of 1/4 inch thick acrylic sheets that are extremely durable, difficult to scratch and easy to repair. (See this article on repairing acrylic bathtubs).
Typically bathtub liner contractors have molds of almost all bathtubs manufactured in the US over the last 20 years. They come to your house, take measurements and photographs to identify your tub. The mold is then used to make an acrylic liner for your bathtub.
A bathtub liner can be installed in one day and is mess free. It slides into place like a glove, requiring only trimming and caulking to seal it.
The same solution is available for shower bases, and both bathtub liner and shower base liner solutions can be combined with matched color custom wall surrounds. This means you can have you can have a new custom bathroom - at a fraction of the cost of conventional bathroom remodeling.
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