Renew a dated bathroom without the strip-out. Vanities, wall and floor tiles and bathtubs resurfaced in durable 2-pack coatings — days rather than weeks, and no demolition.
Call Jimmy — 0432 077 782Doors, drawer fronts and carcasses sprayed in 2-pack polyurethane for a hard, factory-grade finish that survives daily family use.
Bonding primer built for glazed surfaces, then a topcoat rated for moisture and foot traffic — colour changed without lifting a single tile.
Enamel and acrylic tubs with chips filled and faired first, so the repair does not telegraph through the finished surface.
Between-tenancy bathroom refreshes scoped backwards from the date the property has to be back on the market.
Resurfacing recoats the surfaces you already have rather than removing them. The vanity, the wall and floor tiles and the bath are cleaned back, abraded, primed with a bonding system made for non-porous surfaces, and finished in a hard 2-pack topcoat. The layout, the plumbing and the waterproofing are untouched — which is why a bathroom that works but looks twenty years old can be changed in days rather than weeks.
Jetblack Painting is a 5-star rated Melbourne business with 18+ years of experience, $10 million public liability insurance, and a 5-year workmanship guarantee on every project.
Bathrooms carry soap film, body oils and silicone residue on every surface, and a coating applied over any of that is bonded to the residue rather than to the tile. That is the whole reason resurfacing has a mixed reputation: the failures people have seen were preparation failures, not product failures.
Proper preparation means stripping the surfaces back chemically, abrading the glaze so the primer has a profile to key into, and removing every trace of old silicone before priming. It is slower and less visible than the coating itself, and it is what separates a bathroom that still looks right in five years from one that peels at the shower edge in twelve months.
Cure time matters just as much. Coatings need clean, dry air while they harden, and a bathroom put back into service before the finish has cured will carry that mistake permanently. Touch-dry is not cured — we give you the real return-to-service date rather than the best case.
We would rather turn work down than coat a bathroom that should not be coated. Tiles that sound hollow when tapped have lost their bond to the substrate and will move regardless of what goes on top of them.
Active water damage, failed waterproofing or persistent mould growing behind the tiling are structural problems. A coating hides them rather than fixing them, and hiding them makes the eventual repair more expensive, not less.
If that is what we find at the site visit, we say so. Resurfacing is the right call when the bones are sound and the finish is simply dated — which, in most Melbourne bathrooms built from the nineties onward, it is.
Bathrooms decide how a property shows. For a between-tenancy turnaround or a pre-sale refresh, resurfacing is often the highest-return work available, because it changes the room a buyer or tenant reacts to most strongly, inside a window a renovation could never meet.
We quote with the scope itemised so managers and committees can compare like for like, and we work to the date that cannot move. The site visit and written quote are free — call Jimmy on 0432 077 782.
Yes, with the right system and honest preparation. Tile resurfacing uses a bonding primer designed to grip glazed surfaces, followed by a hard-wearing 2-pack topcoat. What decides the result is not the paint but the preparation: the tiles have to be stripped of soap residue and body oils, the glaze abraded so the primer has something to key into, and every trace of silicone removed. Skip any of that and it will peel at the edges within a year.
A properly prepared vanity or tile resurface holds up for years in normal family use. The two things that shorten it are standing water sitting on a horizontal surface and abrasive cleaners. We hand over care instructions with the job, because how a resurfaced bathroom is cleaned matters more to its lifespan than anything else after we leave.
Substantially, and it is faster. A full renovation means demolition, waterproofing, trades in sequence and weeks without a bathroom. Resurfacing changes the colour and finish of what is already there in a matter of days. It is the right choice when the layout works and the surfaces are sound but dated. It is the wrong choice when tiles are drummy, waterproofing has failed, or the layout itself is the problem — we will tell you if that is what we find.
Yes. Bath resurfacing suits enamel and acrylic tubs that are structurally sound but stained, chipped or an outdated colour. Chips are filled and faired before coating so the repair does not telegraph through the finish. A tub with a crack through it or flex in the base is not a resurfacing candidate.
Typically two to four days depending on the scope, and the room is genuinely unusable for that period — coatings need clean air and no moisture while they cure. Touch-dry is not cured. We give you the real return-to-service date with the quote rather than the best case, which matters if it is the only bathroom in the house.
Regularly. It is a common between-tenancy choice for property managers because it lifts a tired bathroom inside a short vacancy window without the cost and programme of a renovation. Tell us the date the property has to be back on the market and we will scope the work backwards from it.
We work across Bayside, Kingston, Glen Eira, Stonnington, the southeast and the Mornington Peninsula from our base in Mordialloc — including Brighton, Bentleigh, Caulfield, Mentone, Sandringham, Cheltenham, Keysborough and surrounding suburbs.
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