A MESSAGE FROM ILLINOIS'S #1 ROCKFORD TUB RESURFACING TEAM:
Rockford, IL property owner,
We refinish bathtubs, tile and vanity tops in place — stripped, repaired, primed and sprayed with a coating that cures hard. It takes a day rather than a week, and it costs a fraction of replacement because nothing gets torn out. We work across Rockford and the towns around it.
The tub is worn, stained or the wrong colour, and the bathroom looks dated because of it. Replacing it means tile, plumbing and a bathroom out of action for days — and in most houses the tub itself is structurally fine. You are paying to change a surface, not a fixture. You want somebody who turns up, tells you straight what it needs, and does it properly the first time. The typical Rockford property dates to around 1962, so the housing stock here is largely post-war. With roughly 87 freeze-thaw days a year, anything that traps water moves and cracks.
Someone attends, inspects the real condition and takes measurements. Nothing here is priced off a photo.
Broken out line by line, including what is excluded, so another company's number means something next to ours.
Sometimes the answer is that it does not need doing yet. We would rather tell you that than sell you something.
You might know this as bathtub refinishing. Same work, either name. Everything below is work we handle directly, not passed to a third party.
The coatings and stripping agents give off strong fumes. Proper work means forced-air exhaust, masking of the room, and a respirator. This is the step most often skipped on cheap jobs.
Any previous refinish coating has to come off completely. Chips, rust-through spots, and cracks get filled and faired before anything is sprayed, because the coating follows the shape underneath.
Glazed porcelain is deliberately non-porous, so it is chemically etched or abraded to give the primer something to grip. Skipping or rushing this is the single biggest cause of failure.
Old caulk is cut out, drain and overflow trim comes off, and the surrounding tile is masked. Coating sprayed over caulk peels along that line within months.
A bonding primer suited to the substrate goes down first, then multiple thin sprayed coats of acrylic urethane or a similar two-part coating, each flashed off before the next.
Hardware and fresh caulk go back after the coating has set. Most systems need 24 to 72 hours before water contact, and longer before heavy use.
A cross-section of the jobs we handle around Rockford — different sizes, different conditions, same standard.
We work Rockford and the towns around it every week. We also cover Loves Park, Belvidere, Machesney Park, Roscoe, Cherry Valley, Poplar Grove, Rockton and South Beloit. We know what the buildings here are like and how they age.
Licensed, insured, and directly employed. Your job does not get passed to whoever happened to be free that week.
This is the whole job for us. Tub Resurfacing is not something we picked up to fill gaps between other work. The tub is identified as cast iron, steel, fiberglass or acrylic, and checked for previous refinishing, rust-through, and flex in the floor of the tub. That determines the whole approach.
The price is agreed up front. If we find something that changes it, you see the thing itself before you see a new number.
Anything to do with tub resurfacing. To start with: ventilation and containment, stripping and repair, etching the surface, caulk and hardware removal, primer and topcoats, cure and reassembly. If you need something that is not on that list, call and ask – we can usually quote it or tell you honestly who should.
We cover Rockford, IL and the surrounding towns – Loves Park, Belvidere, Machesney Park, Roscoe, Cherry Valley, Poplar Grove, Rockton, South Beloit, Byron, Davis Junction, New Milford, Winnebago, Candlewick Lake, Timberlane, Pecatonica, Monroe Center, Caledonia, Westlake Village, Argyle, Stillman Valley, Holcomb, Beloit, Rochelle, Marengo, and more. If you do not see your town listed, call anyway and we will tell you straight whether we can get to you.
Ventilation and containment – The coatings and stripping agents give off strong fumes. Proper work means forced-air exhaust, masking of the room, and a respirator. This is the step most often skipped on cheap jobs.; Stripping and repair – Any previous refinish coating has to come off completely. Chips, rust-through spots, and cracks get filled and faired before anything is sprayed, because the coating follows the shape underneath.; Etching the surface – Glazed porcelain is deliberately non-porous, so it is chemically etched or abraded to give the primer something to grip. Skipping or rushing this is the single biggest cause of failure.. Which one is right depends on what we find when we look at it, and we will walk you through the trade-offs rather than picking for you.
Ventilation and containment is the one we are asked about most often in Rockford. The coatings and stripping agents give off strong fumes. Proper work means forced-air exhaust, masking of the room, and a respirator. This is the step most often skipped on cheap jobs.
Most jobs land between $300 and $2,200 per tub, or tub plus surround, depending on condition and scope. We come out, look at it, and give you a written estimate at no charge. We are not the cheapest outfit in Rockford and we will not pretend to be – but you will know exactly what you are paying for before anything starts.
Tub material: Cast iron, porcelain-over-steel, fiberglass, acrylic and cultured marble each need a different prep sequence and primer. Fiberglass in particular flexes, which changes the coating choice and the risk. That is usually the biggest single swing in a quote, which is why we look before we price.
Yes. We stand behind what we do and we put the terms in writing with the estimate, so the guarantee is not a handshake you have to remember later.
Call us at (779) 335-0290, or fill in the quote form on this page. We will get back to you, set a time that suits, and come look at the job.
Free estimate, in writing, from a Rockford team that does this every day.
Call us whenever suits. We handle every size of job, residential and commercial, across Rockford and the towns around it.
Your partner,
Rockford Tub Resurfacing