Bathtub: simply paint the panel
The bathtub is the heart of the bathroom, and how classy a bathroom looks depends not a little on how decorative the exterior of the bathtub looks. There are certain materials that are very easy to paint when decorating a bathtub, and the old, but unsightly paneling can also usually be redesigned.
If you have a new bathtub If you want to dress up, you have several options, all of which make more or less work. The following systems do exactly the amount of work you want to do yourself:
Simply attach and paint a new cladding for a bathtub
- A bathtub can first be clad with flat blocks. With this variant, you "wall up" your bathtub properly. This variant is therefore well suited for everyone who wants to live with this bathroom and this tub for a while longer.
- The blocks are sawn to size with an aerated concrete saw or foxtail, grouped around the tub and glued using the adhesive bed method. You can design the stone cladding so that it is flush with the upper edge of the bathtub, or you can plan an edge of any width.
- You can also clad your new tub with suitable construction panels. In the hardware store you can get various panels that are basically suitable for this task in terms of material. This solution is also quite easy to make yourself. When purchasing slabs and stones, you will receive detailed instructions on how the material is cut, attached and connected.
- Building panels and blocks themselves have a certain water resistance, but you should also coat both well with water-repellent deep primer. This is very easy and quick, this reason is usually as thin as water. Better go over it several times, then no more moisture can work its way through to the inside of the cladding.
- Then you can decide: Depending on how clean you are in the area of the seams or You can now paint your newly clad bathtub directly (preferably with a textured paint, otherwise the connections will always be visible), first clean and then paint (maybe with roller plaster, that does both at once) or tiled.
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Repaint the old paneling of the bathtub
- If you want to embellish the somewhat aging cover of an old bathtub, the material of which the tub's casing is made is of course crucial.
- If these are solutions as described above, i.e. stones or slabs have been given a coating, you should find out what this coating is made of. If you can peel off a bit and take it to the nearest hardware store, an expert will help you Staff can tell what to put on that material and how to put the old cladding on the renovation prepare.
- If the old tub is tiled, you can basically use this too Tiles paint. However, it will not be that easy and convenient: Durable tile lacquers are mixed from two components and applied up to three times after the primer. They need absolutely thorough preparatory work on the surface to which they are to be applied (cleaning, degreasing, sanding, dusting), and they smell a lot. When airing, however, no dust should get into the room, this can be seen immediately on the new coating. So you will spend two to three days in your bathroom wearing a breathing mask, and then it will take several days for the new coat to dry sufficiently for the bathroom to be usable again.
If you To brush never find it “easy” and, moreover, do not find a bath cover really nice at all, you can also opt for a variant decision that is used again and again: the free-standing bathtub with feet, with feet that are so beautiful that everyone can she should see!
