Bathtub Refinishing Fiasco

We wanted to change the look of our bathtub, but did not want to go through the expense or difficulty of ripping it out. Instead I decided to try painting it. I had heard of other people doing so. I watched four or five different youtube videos that showed people having good results painting their tub with the same Rust-Oleum tub+tile kit that I found at the local big box home store. So I decided to try.

I was not expecting perfect results. I knew it would not look as good as new. But we wanted to get rid of the brown, and we figured that if this gave us 3-5 years, then we would be satisfied.

Unfortunately, we were more than a bit disappointed with the results.

Here are the three videos that cover the project: First the project video, followed by a 2 month report, follwed by a 2 year report.

Please Note: I am located in Canada. The product I bought was also from Canada. Several people have pointed out that the US product has a different formulation and has different application instructions. I wish I'd known that before hand. (The third video goes deeper into that topic.)

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