DIY Bathroom Remodel - Bathworks DIY Kit Shower Refinish

hey guys welcome to our Channel I'm Nathan I'm Melanie where the Larousse in this episode we're gonna show you how we used a backwards DIY kit to refinish our 20 year old shower let's get cracking [Music] before we get started we're going to open the box up and familiarize ourself with the directions so we know what to expect they say step one is to clear all your personal items out of the tub establish good air flow and ventilation step two using a razor blade or a scraper remove the caulking from the tub and the walls step number three with a single edge razor blade scrape down the tub and the walls to remove any soap scum then sand with 120 or 220 grit sandpaper step four is to place a glove or plastic bag over the tub spout or the shower head to prevent any dripping at this time tape off any of fixtures or walls step five use a vacuum to clean the surface fully step 6 with a paper towel wipe the provided liquid primer on to the bathtub and/or wall surfaces step 7 you mix together the provided paint materials and then paint step eight is to wait at least 45 minutes then remove all your tape that doesn't seem so hard number one was to remove the doors and do all the holes with j-b weld water weld and step number two has been for us to get a scraper and start scraping the soap scum and then we're going to use Comet to really clean this tub down and maybe move on to some awesome engine degreaser but we will be back for the next step [Applause] [Music] but thoroughly scraped all the soap scum off this chair that I can get I'm going to get me a bucket of water and some Comet and some scotch brite scotch brite pads and give this thing a good scrubbing and then we'll come back with the razor blade and see if there's anything left combine not exactly know luckily for them steps worked out well ladder in the shower my legs are just long enough nice makes your butt look big with you Nathan got everything good and clean by scrubbing it at the comment so here we are sanding the walls down with 220 grit sandpaper the directions did tell us that we should do it while the walls were still damp but we found that that was really clogging up the sandpaper really bad doing it dry definitely does create a lot more dust so make sure that you do wear a mask and we tried to cut down on the dust that was being made by filtering the air through the shop back with the drywall bag and blowing it out the window [Music] up to this point we have scraped it with razor blade used to calm it and a scotch-brite pad to clean it then sanded it with 220 grit sandpaper and now we're going to do add a heavy-duty mixture of DSP into some water and it's a all-purpose heavy-duty cleaner that leaves surface clean without rinsing for preparation for painting and sort of wash the whole tub down with that it also helped us get rid of that sanding residue that we've got left and then maybe even go over with tack cloth once it's completely dry before we get ready for paint so that's the next step now we are working on the final step before primer she is a tacking it with a cloth I think my jokes are tacky didn't like that did you do you think I love you and we have to make sure the tub is absolutely 100% dross we've got ears and somehow they did lights in here throw a little extra heat on things [Music] next step is rubbing the liquid primer onto the tub with paper towel and we are going to kick the ventilation back on because this stuff smells pretty thick yeah pretty paper all right the next step is to mix the hardener with the paint and once we get these mixed we have one hour of working time and then we've got to add it into the non-slip additive this stuff smells awful also definitely get you a good mask and set yourself up with a lot of ventilation because it will fry your brain cells [Applause] five minutes later Illinois yes not tick really like lot more late nights mean obviously just friends and stuff it's crap it can sticky I'll get back to that for a while I think when it rolls on there's what's minutes yeah goodbye just wait I told you to keep your roller when he went like knocking on wall was actually more difficult than I thought it was gonna be all right we are officially done with that bathroom what was your take on know the problem we ran into is we had a negative ventilation negative pressure in the room which was great so it was sucking all the fumes out of our room and indirectly outside but then we ran into can't see bugs some little black bugs that bite you that they're all teeth in and so they were coming in through the screen and sticking in our white paint so then we had to flip our ventilation around to where it's positive pressure and it was not getting the fumes away even with our masks and stuff I mean I don't know if you can see my eyeballs but the stuff smells really really bad I would not paint without a mask and ventilation with this stuff would you no no no that's what you know it was going well for the first 45 minutes but then once my face started going numb its painting was a little more difficult so but I mean it looks nice and I just hope you know I have some on my hands and stuff it's kind of got a tacky softness to it so I hope it dries a lot harder than it is on my hands it is it's sticky to paint with like it doesn't go on like latex or anything it's like painting or funnies to it yeah yeah it's just like trying to paint with honey so we'll check back here in the morning and and see if any more bugs have stuck in our paint and how it looks okay so we're back after about 60 hours since we finished the painting we chose to wait this long just because the smell in the house was still really overwhelming after 24 hours but we did come back and check on it after the 24 hours and the finish did seem ready to be exposed to water which is what bath works claims that you can shower in it after 24 hours the kit again was about $50 with none of the fluffy kind of stuff it didn't have the the rollers and the tack cloth and like all the tools that you would need which we already had on hands anyway I would do this again so it's not perfect which for me and a little difficult ask my husband I'm kind of a perfectionist if you have really harsh light and likely did while you're doing it with like really harsh up lighting we're downloading you can see like some roller marks in it and stuff and kind of up towards the top it has like a little bit of a run here across the top and in the corners but we're gonna have a shower curtain across it and obviously just like vanity lighting or something so you're never gonna see that stuff anyway it did dry to like a I guess then like a porcelain enamel finish it does feel like it'll hold up really all the things and we chose to get the kid with the non-slip protection it has what feels like a sand product mixed into the paint and you do that with the kit like that comes separately you mix the resin paint in with it and it does feel very textured it feels very non-slip and the other thing that we thought about previously was how he discussed where you patch these holes that were in the side of the shower we have a couple chips down here in the lip I think there's these three here and then there was one further down here somewhere we considered patching these with the jb weld water weld and chose not to just because they were so shallow you can barely get your fingernail in them we were a little bit afraid that the jb weld would pop loose and we wanted to see with the thick texture of this paint and the self-leveling properties if they would fill in and level out and as you can see we kind of took one for the team here so you guys know that these kind of chips do not go away with just the paint you would have to patch them with either their chip repair kits or the JV weld to to get rid of them all right final thoughts on this project we chose to use the back works it is their standard bathtub kit instead of their premium kit again because we had all of this stuff already on hand that they required such as the rollers and the paint trays the tack cloth and all of that stuff we're remodeling this whole house yes so we have lots of stuff laying around we chose to do it in white because our tub was currently like an almond or a biscuit color and we just we prefer the cleanliness of the white so we've ordered two of these kits and we do have a sixty by 34 shower it's just like a fiberglass shower insert and we researched we looked at yeah rust only makes one who else it was really only wrestling it was the only yeah and this one gets excellent reviews we talked to their customer service and they were very very nice detail just answered on the second ring and just last Saturday no less yes very nail dirt nice nice nice people yeah so um and we are not sponsored or affiliated with them in any way shape or form or just figured we'd show you what we did and what we used so with the likes that 60 by 34 insert we lived with two kids we ended up using about a kit and a half I was really glad we had that second kit yeah I'm gonna start to get kind of nervous so that's why you're like probably halfway through that two-thirds the way through I started mixing up the other kit so that it could be setting for the five-minute time that it took to set and then we also use the extra slip nicely the non-slip additive on the shower and and so about time it was ready to be used you would just best use enough what we had had what we call directions do tell you you have a 60-minute time limit to you this so by the time you've waited the five minutes for it to mix properly you're down to 55 minutes which seems like a lot of time but it really wasn't like I was extremely glad that the two of us were doing it together because with this size shower I wouldn't have been able to myself you were in the hour it was we were still over an hour yeah paint still seemed okay to use no no no it's definitely not a one-person shower of our size you know maybe one of the smaller individual showers perfect like half the size yeah half the size first you can crank it out but yeah we're a bath tub or something like trimming trimming the talking top of it took it was actually pretty difficult because the paint was so thick and they recommended using the little foam brushes and it just didn't spread as smoothly yours nice well you trying to get a crisp block yeah there was no such thing am i crisp I'm gonna have to repaint but but I think by large it was definitely because with our top we would have had to tear it down to the studs and then build back up and we're trying to get in this house soon and so we didn't want to just strip it all the way down to it to the stud soon so especially when the shower was still in good shape anyway oh yeah and it didn't have any defects to it it was no we didn't yeah the collar was bad and you could tell that the previous couple had scoured it pretty heavy and cleaned it pretty hard when you could get squirrel markings over here for 20 years and um but I mean and that's where you leave it to that there were smears and stuff she's very very very picky it's if you have lined up high you know where your vanity lights are going to be it looks immaculate but now if we get and take like a shop light and get down low and shine up across did you know yes you can see where the fumes are getting to me and I was leaning a little heavier on the shower and and then where we trim the top trim the whole top and then we started on the side a good tip is start rolling along the top rainy trim as you turn but because by the time we got up to the trim it attack eed up a little bit and so trying to get those points to blend you know now if you're standing in sheriff you'll never see it but if you take a light and shine it up a prosecutor I really hard to find the flaws where they merge you can see somehow I got a here in a paint but yeah but we're actually can see bugs luckily it had set up enough that we had bugs stuck all over it but they were they weren't in the paint pretty easily so stupid problems yeah was there any other things we need to touch on just the smell yes you have to stuff if you guys are unfamiliar with positive and negative pressure the way it is that's our master bathroom and so our bedroom connects directly to it so what I did was was put the bedroom window up and put the fan draw in the air out blowing it outside and then I open the bathroom window so it is drawing the air from and all the fumes from the bathroom straight through the bedroom that out the outside and then all the ductwork and stuff in the house is actually helping them to ventilate too so so that fan is creating a vacuum and it's drawing hair from the dining room in the kitchen and stuff through the cold air returns and so all the fumes are just being channeled right out that window but then when we ran into trouble and we had to flip the flan around you think oh we're just feeding flesh fresh air into the house that doesn't work that way you're feeding fresh air in but you're also forcing a higher volume of air into the bedroom and then it's dissipating through the docks through the vents and then some of it is going out that bathroom when they're carrying the fumes with it but it also carries the fumes through the entire house and that's what I mean that with the problems with because our master bathrooms upstairs we end up with it down scheduling the holes yeah down in the finished basement so if you're going to do this kind of project I would do it the day before you go on vacation or something like that I'm kind of curious we're probably doing the downstairs bathroom Oh me yes we're going to do it downstairs there's not as in the downstairs basement her bathroom and so I'm curious how how that ventilation is going to be with the ventilation we had upstairs I said it was two and a half days since I've done it you can still kind of smell it it lingers for week he's pouring some of our scbas from the fire department but it was well worth doing he's got an old bathtub or an old shower I'm still suffering from the fumes well and we got paged out last night at 3 o'clock well if this morning 3 o'clock so you have to to do great asleep right yes look over my stammering but if you've got an old fixture this is a way to go I mean it seems stout it's covered really well like I feel like it would cover a harsher colour like the old-fashioned like the greens as like dominating colors and stuff yeah that it would this would cover it well oh yeah I definitely think so because we did two two full coats and which is what they called for it and it is definitely worth doing and the sheen is better than what you would originally get it to store it looks I feel like a porcelain finish it's not like it's not high gloss pensive loss finish to it slick give them like and the floor is grippy so you won't have to worry about Falls the walls nice and slick I think it'll clean up well so definitely definitely think it's worth going yeah absolutely alright I'll catch you in the next one

Channel: The Larews Do

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Length: 19min 28sec (1168 seconds)

Published: Thu May 28 2020