What does installing bathtub liners involve?
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 la