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Terrible Tub & Tile Treatment! ...
Before and After Pics are NOT using the Homax Product ... I wouldn't recommend it to anyone!
Like most people said here, it looked great when I first applied it (and I did the prep 4 times over, not 3 times as per the instructions!)
However, with very little use, it soon looked awful. How they can claim on the box that it's a "hard, protective finish" and get away with it, I don't know. Lucky there hasn't been a Class Action for that "advertising" (or has there?!)
THE GOOD NEWS (no, I don't work for Rustoleum! ... before and after pics are Rustoleum spray paints as per description below)
As we're currently renting, thank goodness the Landlord said we can do whatever we want to the house! We have two bathrooms, both with 7' double sink vanities. The tops are all one piece and are made from the 1980's fake-cream-marble - which is actually a molded acrylic.
The first bathroom I used the homax on - AWFUL.
The second bathroom looks amazing!!! I used the pure white Rustoleum Plastic paint (all of their paints are the best, in my opinion). I gave the sinks a good clean and a light rub with fine grit sandpaper (or wire wool), rinsed them very well and dried them. I taped off around the edge of the sink very carefully (get the expensive 3M blue tape that actually does stretch and go around corners ... sooo worth the extra couple of bucks). I gave it 2 or 3 very light coats (don't ever be tempted to get 100% coverage with the first coat as it'll just be running all over the place! Patience is a virtue). It only took about 15mins to dry to a very-light-touch, in between coats. Then I left it alone for a good few hours.
ANOTHER great Rustoleum product that I used on the vanity top is the Stone Effect paint. Before spraying the sink, I used their "Sienna" brown stone paint. I used 2 cans on the 7' vanity (cost about $13 or so) and then put two coats of satin polyurathene on with a foam brush. After this is when I painted the actual sink portion. (If you mess up and don't have a clean line, spray a little of either paint in the lid of the can and use a q-tip to touch it up)
My husband found some cheap taps to replace the old one with. (The sinks look different shapes but I can assure you it's the same sink, just taken at a slightly different angle I guess)
So, instead of a dated, nasty, old looking fake cream/yellow marble vanity, it now looks like we have a stone top with under-mount white sinks.
Good luck all with your bathrooms and other fun projects!
September 2011 · Tools and Home Improvement