Bathtub refinishing benefits homeowners, Hotels, motels, apartments and other property managers by saving them money over replacement. For example, a new bathtub may cost as little as $300, but when you add the cost of tearing down that old bathtub, removing it, getting rid of the bathtub and all the fixtures, and then dumping all the mess including that heavy bathtub at the landfill. bathtub refinishing benefits the environment.

Bathroom remodeling costs go up when you add the bathtub parts, tile work, flooring, carpentry and permits, you see the cost of replacing a bathtub can go into the thousands of dollars. So what you thought was going to be a simple bathroom remodeling job, turns into an expensive job. bathtub refinishing is done without a tear out and that alone saves a lot of money and valuable environmental assets.

One contractor is involved in the refinishing a tub, thereby saving the consumer, time and the mess of trying to co-ordinate multiple sub-contractors on a single project. Now, compare bathtub refinishing to replacement.
Replacing old bathtubs with new bathtubs, instead of refinishing, involves the services of more than one contractor. Replacement impacts the environment badly. On the other hand, bathtub refinishing services, save the landfills.

Bathtub refinishing benefits or advantages over replacement in a nutshell:

• Savings of up to 80% the cost of bathtub replacement.
• Savings in time since an average bathtub is refinished in about four hours and can be used 24 hours later.
• Choice of many colors.

The environmental benefits of bathtub refinishing over replacement.

Bathtub refinishing is done in the bathroom. The tub is cleaned, primed and a special coating applied, all in the bathroom. There is no mess brought in during the process and none goes to the landfills after the bathtub is refinished.

This is very significant, since an estimated 47% of all the waste that goes to the landfills is from home remodeling or renovation. Fixtures like bathtubs, sinks, and cabinets are traditionally replaced, which means that they end up in the landfills adding to the environmental problems of replacement.

In addition, it takes a lot of energy to manufacture new fixtures that are used in home remodeling. The raw materials have to be source, then transported to the factory, using energy. It takes energy to manufacture the fixture and energy to transport it to the store.

When fixtures are purchased, it takes energy to transport them to their final destination. Finally, energy is used in the installation of the new fixtures and the transportation of the old ones to the landfills.Take for instance, the replacement of cabinets. It takes quite some trees and there we go again, yes, energy to transform a tree into a piece of furniture.

Trees are needed for our survival. They clean our air, suck up carbon dioxide, and moderate the temperature of our environment. A lot of species, need trees for survival, and we need their survival for our survival. It is also known that old wood has more character and luster than the young trees that are snatched out of the forests for making furniture. Cutting down more and more trees, simply because one has not considered, refinishing as the best alternative to replacement is inexcusable.

Here are the fixtures that can be repaired and refinished and not replaced:

• Bathtubs
• Countertops
• Kitchen cabinets
• Bathroom marble bathtubs and sinks
• Kitchen cabinets refinishing

As more and more people understand that refinishing is a better alternative to replacement, the less and less fixtures go to our landfills. Equally important is the less energy we use when we refinish instead of replacing all fixtures during home improvement.

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