I've seen a few posts on this, and I'll weigh in this time. I had my 1929 tub reglazed 10 years ago, and it was looking fine until I had some work done in the bathroom a few years ago and things were dropped into the tub, chipping the finish. I also used bathmats with suction cups (not good) which removed some of the finish. So, if you have it done by a reputable person and baby the tub afterwards, you should be fine. I'll be having mine done a second time once my major renovation is complete.

I decided to try degreaser on my bath mat. I sprayed it upside down in the bathtub and let it sit for 15 minutes. I came back and rinsed it off along with most of the black gunk. I sprayed it again and let it sit a little longer. I am really loving degreaser! I also used it on the bathroom blinds. Spray, sit and rinse! Works on greasy laundry stains as well!

>>I would actually be a little leary about reglazing....from what I've heard you will get one year max out of it before it starts peeling, and you have to use special cleaners to avoid damage. >> How about the experience of someone who had it done in 2003? As with ALL paint jobs, prep is everything. Check references and do your homework. This is smelly paint, a high gloss polyurethane similar to auto paint. They will block off everything with plastic and should remove window screens as well. They will leave you a touch-up kit - USE IT immediately if the surface gets nicked. Water going underneath the paint will lift it off. The most critical thing to remember is that ALL paint jobs, no matter what type of paint and what surface, needs a full 30 days to cure completely. You can use the tub after three days, but be gentle with it until those thirty days are up. People who don't pay attention to this are the second biggest reason for reglazing failure (first being not doing your homework and using bad installers). The tub bottom may be quite slippery afterwards - I neglected to ask if they had any non-slip texturing they could do for the bottom, but my 83-yr-old MIL who uses the tub, is accustomed to using a non-suction cup bathmat. She had the same reglazing done in her house on tub and shower, and 24 yrs after it was done, she sold the house and it was still in perfect shape. The paint formulations have changed since hers was done and I wasn't expecting it to last forever. We have suction cup safety bars (plastic) which we use on the solid surface shower surround. Every once in a while they pop off and fall into the tub, or we knock over a big bottle of shampoo when we're cleaning. They're fairly heavy for being plastic, but there has been no damage to the paint at all. The tub still looks perfect. Because of the high-gloss, cleaning is simple. You can't use abrasives, but you don't need to - a spraying with one of those soap scum removers and a swish of a sponge gets everything off and the tub is gleaming again. Smartest $350 we ever spent!

My cast iron bathtub has been reglazed at least twice. (possibly more times by previous owners) It looks fantastic, though after about 7 years from the last reglazing it was not doing so well. I had been using one of those suction cup nonslip mats, so that might have been a problem. However, I'm not sure what nonslip mat to use, because the reglazed tub is slippery. I want to be alive and healthy to look at the tub!