MAGIC 3124 Tub and Tile Refinishing Kit - Bright White - Paint On - Works On Ceramic Porcelain Acrylic Fiberglass Surfaces

Turned a stained old double sink vanity into a thing of beauty! Pros: easy to use, inexpensive. Cons: fumes, bubbles, streaks. Don't skip the preparation steps and take your time. Pour it on the surface and use your brush to push it and spread it. It's self leveling. Extras: works well on painted surfaces if you're looking to paint your cabinets and want a glossy lacquered finish, this stuff works great!

I already knew from some time ago that I wanted to do something about the ugly "almond-colored" fiberglass bathtub/shower combo fixtures in both bathrooms of my otherwise fully-remodeled bright white (with light gray flooring) recently-bought home. I explored options for replacing them. Quotes for contractors to come in and do the work at, say, The Home Depot would have run me about $5,000+ for the tubs alone (not including the walls)! I previously had heard about an option for refinishing them with an epoxy of sorts so I tried to find out more about that. I finally discovered some refinishing kits online through various retailers. Through researching and considering the best product in terms of favorable reviews as well as price, I finally settled on Magic Tub & Tile. The prep work took at least a day or two of my spare time for each tub/shower. Each kit is supposed to cover between about 75-100 square feet (with that area having two coats). I calculated that I had about ~89 sq. ft. surface area for each of the two fixtures so I bought two kits. There is a huge laundry list of other items that you need to have for the rest of the supplies on the list, which is something that I wished that they would have included on this product page somewhere so that I could have had everything offhand when the product arrived and just set to work. One of the reviews states that you should actually wait well over an hour after mixing the activator in with the base paint. I highly recommend doing this as well. The viscosity of the mixture is so thin and runny that, no matter the verticality of the surface you're applying it to and how skilled at painting you think you are, you will definitely have a lot of drips throughout the process. It is handy to keep a clean rag to wipe up spills like the video states. Also, you should keep a can of lacquer thinner on standby as well. I finished the first tub and, when I was painting the second one, I decided to first wait just a little longer after I mixed in the activator before starting to apply the first coat. although it gave me a less runny and slightly richer consistency that made applying it a lot better (at least initially), when I was a ways into the second coat, I really started to worry that I would run out before finishing (this is because it was laying on thicker). Sure enough, I ran out of product with roughly 15% of the surface unfinished with the second coat! I quickly ordered another can later that night to be sent out two-day shipping with a quick Amazon Prime trial (which I don't remember if I ended up needing) because this stuff is supposed to fully cure and be ready for use within 72 hours (3 days)! I bought yet another paint brush (this stuff will destroy your brushes even if you soak them in paint thinner to try and remove it) and got back to work the same day the third kit arrived. Well, of course I had plenty for coverage for the rest of the second tub and then a lot extra to apply better coverage to the rest (a third coat in some places). I then prepped the original first tub again with some TSP to do some touching up there as well. I had probably somewhat around a half a can left over after I was all done and could finally pretty much say like the instructions state that I am "satisfied with coverage." It seems like this finish will last a while and both tubs look beautiful! Every time I take a shower I can just admire how bright and shiny white they look. It's really satisfying. After everything was said and done I probably spent around $175 for the three kits and all the supplies that I didn't already have offhand - Much better than the many thousands of dollars! I still have the leftover can of product in the freezer. Does anyone know if I take it out and keep the lid on it, will it have the same shelf life as "normal paint" if I keep it sealed? Magic, do you know? Thank you so much for creating such an excellent product!!

Really easy to apply. In the directions it says to mix the paint and activator in the beginning and put in the refrigerator between coats. I found out it's a lot better to make the paint and activator three separate times between coats . Because you have to wait 4 hours between coats. And depending on the weather that day if it's humid it might be less than 4 hours. What I did was get a little scale I mix the paint 50/50 three separate times and after 3 months it's still holding up very nice very satisfied. Also this was my second time doing it within a month because I used a different brand of paint and it did not work out it started flaking within a week. Also do recommend letting it sit and dry for as long as you can before you start using a bathtub again.

Transformed a 70s harvest gold camper shower into sparkling white.. just follow the instructions and don’t get heavy handed. Would absolutely recommend it

Husband did over our old pink tiles and it come out looking like a professional had done it...

This product looked promising for my kitchen sink. We sanded the sink and then began application. It went on well, with a milky, almost transparent appearance, as the directions dictate we apply light layers of product. We waited the 2 hours in between layers, and ultimately only applied 2 layers as I was worried it wouldn’t dry correctly if we overdid it. Coverage looked nice that night, the smell was very pungent so we had to air out the kitchen. The next morning, the sides of the sink had dripping patterns and the bottom/middle was covered in small bubbles. Over the next few days, the dripping effect moved towards the bottom/middle, and remained that way. The box says 72 hours (3 days). We waited 3 days and it was still tacky to the touch. It has now been 7 days, I can’t sit a glass in the sink without producing a ring. If I press my finger into the product, it creates a dent. I waited double the drying time, nearly froze to death trying to ventilate my home, and it is still like putty. I definitely will not buy this again.

TL;DR skip to the bottom and do what the youtube video says Here is a very detailed explanation of my fiberglass tub surround and bathtub refinishing journey. I did a lot of research before purchasing a product. The Rustoleum brand seemed to be the most popular, but for whatever reason it was not available ANYWHERE online or in store the day I went to purchase the product. This one seemed like a reasonably priced, well reviewed alternative. I was tempted by the spray cans, but their mediocre reviews due to overspray, number of cans required and running led me to the paint on version. The product says 91 sq ft or less only needs one kit, and I calculated my sq ftage at about 85. I knew I was cutting it close but at $70 for a whole new kit that I’d only need a little bit of, I took a chance. I did all my prep exactly as described in the instructions. Remove caulk, scrape paint (I didn’t have any), bleach spray and scrub, sand, tsp and scrub, rinse, tack cloth. I was doing this on an 80 degree day (72 in my house). I was concerned it was slightly more humid than I wanted, but it was my last warm day for a long time. I mixed my paint and activator at 12, and started painting at 1:30 (based on lots of reviews saying it was too runny at one hour). I wore a mask to paint. I used a 3” Linzer Best Professional Polyester Flat Household paint brush. There seems to be two of these, the one I used was very thin. The other kind is very thick. My first coat seemed to go on well. Not great coverage, but very smooth. I was a little concerned I wouldn’t have enough to do a full coat two, as I had almost exactly half a can, maybe a little more. The instructions say to do your coats in two different directions to hide brush marks, so my first coat was done vertically. THere were some drips but I caught them all. After waiting 4 hours after the end of my coat, I started coat 2. Coat one ruined my brush despite the use of paint thinner, so I used another brush I had purchased, brand new. Linzer Good 3 Piece Polyester Household Paint Brush Set. I used the 3 inch again, but this one was much thicker. I felt like the previous brush I used didn’t hold much paint, and it was slow going. I was hoping this brush would speed things up. The surface felt very nice. Cured, smooth and hard. I started. It took 2 hours to use the rest of the product, which was not enough. I realized about ⅓ of the way through my second coat that I wasn’t going to have enough. So I planned on leaving the tub itself with no second coat, hoping I could finish it up with a spray can (that I mistakenly thought I could buy it from home depot, but I was mistaken I later learned. The material was dripping a lot more this time, and harder to fix as the material was thicker than the first coat. But I did my best, and after 2 hours I used up the rest of the can and was able to cover everywhere but the inside of the tub. I felt good about finding a spray to finish it off as the flat part of the tub wouldn’t run as easy and the sides of the tub would be a self contained barrier to reduce the overspray. I showered and cleaned up and decided that I should at least purchase a second identical kit in case I decided the cans weren’t going to work. About 2 hours later, I went to see how it looked. It was awful. There were crazy huge horizontal (my direction for coat 2) runs everywhere, on most every surface. Runs that were not there when I finished my second coat, in places that I had painted at the beginning of my coat, so when I finished 2 hours had already passed and there were no runs. But somehow 2 hours after that there were. I have two theories as to why it ran. I painted both coats with the bathroom window open to help the smell (which was bad as other reviewers stated), while also running AC and the bathroom fan. I was hoping this would help the smell dissipate, but I think it also made the room too humid. In hindsight, I should have left the window shut and probably blasted the AC a little more to control the humidity more. Then worry about the smell after. My other theory is that my brush choice for my second coat held too much material. My first brush I think would have performed better. So how to fix this? I waited 3 days for it to cure, then sanded down all the (many, many) runs using an electric sander and 150 grit sandpaper. Then I followed with 400, and finally 600 grit. THen I TSP’d again, and rinsed and rinsed and rinsed to get the CRAZY amount of dust the sanding created off the surface (I had to mop my walls…and I had drop cloths over everything in my bathroom and still under everything there was dust.) Then… maybe I’m an idiot but I used the same stuff again. I read a few reviews that said they had similar problems and fixed it by using Rustoleum Appliance Epoxy Spray paint. But one site showed a response by Rustoleum who said that product will start to peel under water. If it was just my shower wall, I maybe would have considered it, but it was my tub as well. My husband thought I was an idiot for choosing the same product, but I was hopeful by using the first brush for BOTH coats and controlling the humidity better, I would have better luck. And going slower. I wasn’t sure that having a kind of “primer” coat of the same material on the tub (instead of no paint) was going to work, but I wasn’t scraping all that stuff off. I mixed it up at 11:20. Started painting at 12:30. It was 54 degrees outside. I did have a little heater going in the bathroom because that room is one of the worst insulated in my house. Took me an hour and a half to do my first coat. I used the Linzer brush I used from my first attempt a week before. It went on pretty well again, like my first, first coat. This time after finishing, I sealed up the epoxy (instead of just setting the lid on top), and placed it in my very cold garage to help slow the curing, hoping it wouldn’t be so sticky for my second coat. I put it back in my warm bathroom about 45 minutes before I started my second coat. Using ANOTHER Linzer brush, I started. I noticed about a third of the way through my second coat that the brush was struggling already, getting sticky like it did on my first, second coat.. About halfway through I decided the epoxy on the brush was curing and causing the stickiness, so I switched again to a new brush, which helped a lot. I tried to make sure I was not putting on too much material at a time. I had much fewer drips in real time than last time, but still had some. When I finished, I actually had about a third of the can left (thanks to three previous coats instead of just one). I put the can in the freezer in case I needed to touch up anything. I again left and showered and cleaned up, and when I came back a couple hours later…. Still drips and runs. Not nearly as much (in terms of quantity and severity) as the first time, but definitely noticeable. I had much lower expectations, obviously, but still disappointed.I tried to fix a couple but was just making it worse since it was partially set up. But my shower was white and smooth to the touch and shiny, and I was done fighting it, so I’m going to live with it as is. I found this youtube video much much too late for me, but I wish I would have seen this before I started and done this, both for a reduced time and financial investment. And better results. Amazon wouldn't let me link the video, but it's "How to Paint a Bathtub Yourself: Bathroom Makeover on a Budget Ep. 1" on the "Nifty Nester" channel using marine epoxy for $16/can.

Covers well self leveling they give you plenty to to do the job