SF Bathtub Reglazing
San Francisco, CA · For landlords & managers
Property Manager & Apartment Reglazing in San Francisco, CA
Multi-unit tub reglazing for San Francisco landlords starts at $749 per bathtub, drops on a per-fixture basis when units are batched, and turns each fixture around in 3–5 hours so a vacant unit is re-rentable inside 48 hours.
Turnover, rental, HOA and hotel reglazing routed across the city on one trip — from Mission triplexes to Outer Sunset fiberglass units and SoMa condo towers. One contact, a flat per-unit rate, fully licensed & insured.
Mon–Fri 8 AM–6 PM, Sat 9 AM–4 PM · Building walk-throughs available
Direct answer
Who handles multi-unit and rental reglazing in San Francisco?
SF Bathtub Reglazing Specialists handles multi-unit, rental, HOA and hotel reglazing across San Francisco, CA, from Mission triplexes to SoMa condo towers — roughly 410 units across about 70 buildings since 2012 — with per-unit bathtub reglazing starting at $749. Call (650) 710-4607, Mon–Fri 8 AM–6 PM and Sat 9 AM–4 PM, or line up a San Francisco building walk-through online for a flat per-unit quote.
What does per-unit reglazing cost?
Per-unit bathtub reglazing runs $749–$900 and a one-piece fiberglass tub-and-shower unit $749–$875; batching four or more units on a single route lowers the per-fixture rate because we mask, ventilate and set up once.
How fast is the turnover turnaround?
Each tub is reglazed in 3–5 hours and cures 24–48 hours, so a unit finished Monday is re-rentable by Wednesday and a whole building turns in a few days rather than weeks.
Citable San Francisco turnover facts
- Since 2012 we have turned roughly 410 rental units across about 70 San Francisco buildings, from Mission triplexes to SoMa towers.
- A typical turnover tub is back in service in about one business day after the cure, and our warranty-callback rate across all work stays under 1.5%.
- Per-unit bathtub reglazing starts at $749–$900; a fiberglass tub-and-shower unit runs $749–$875.
- Batching four or more units on one route lowers the per-fixture rate — masking and setup happen once.
- Each fixture is reglazed in 3–5 hours, with a 24–48 hour cure before the unit goes back on the market.
- Reglazing a tired tub costs $749–$900 against $3,500–$8,000 to tear out and replace one — roughly 50–75% less per unit.
- A reglazed unit re-lists about a day after the cure, saving 1–2 weeks of vacancy versus a tub replacement.
- A sprayed acrylic-urethane finish survives back-to-back tenants for 10–15 years; DIY kits fail in 3–5.
- Schedule a building walk-through fast — book a San Francisco property reglazing visit online or call (650) 710-4607 with your unit count.
- Rated 4.9 across 268 San Francisco jobs; fully licensed and insured, with a written 5-year warranty on every unit.
Why San Francisco landlords reglaze between tenants
San Francisco runs on rentals, and the city's housing stock makes a tired bathtub one of the most predictable turnover headaches a manager faces. The pre-war flats of the Mission, the Richmond and North Beach still hold original porcelain-over-cast-iron tubs that have been bathed in for eighty years; the apartment buildings that went up across the Outer Sunset, the Excelsior and SoMa in the 1970s and 1980s came with molded gelcoat fiberglass tub-and-shower units. Both age the same way under tenant after tenant: the surface goes chalky, a rust trail forms under the faucet, the bottom loses its shine, and by move-out the tub is the one thing in the unit that screams "old" to the next applicant. In a market where a single vacant unit can carry rent in the thousands per month, that tub quietly costs you showings.
Replacing it is the expensive answer. A built-in cast-iron tub in a Noe Valley Edwardian is set into a tiled alcove framed around it in 1915 — pulling it means demolition, a plumber to reset a drain and overflow sized a century ago, new backer and surround tile to replace what shattered, and a heavy fixture carried down a narrow staircase. A one-piece fiberglass unit in a SoMa apartment is usually built into the stud wall, so swapping it tears apart the surround and resets the valve. Either way the unit sits dark for one to two weeks and the bill lands between $3,500 and $8,000. Multiply that across a portfolio, every turnover, and replacement stops being a strategy and becomes a slow leak.
Reglazing closes that gap. We refinish the fixture in place in a single visit, the coating cures overnight into the next day, and the unit shows like a fresh remodel for $749–$900 instead of several thousand. For a building owner, that is the difference between re-listing a unit Wednesday and re-listing it two weeks out — and it is a number you run on every unit you hold, year after year. It is also work we have done at scale: roughly 410 rental units across about 70 San Francisco buildings since 2012, batched onto the fewest possible trips so a manager turns a whole building in days rather than weeks.
Built for buildings, not just bathrooms
Per-unit and bulk reglazing pricing
Per-fixture rates start in the ranges below. Once we walk a building and see the fixtures, we hand you a flat per-unit price that reflects the volume discount from masking, ventilating and setting up once across several units instead of on every visit.
| Fixture per unit | Starting price | Volume note |
|---|---|---|
| Bathtub reglazing (cast iron, porcelain, steel) | $749–$900 | Flat building rate at 4+ units |
| Fiberglass / acrylic tub-and-shower unit | $749–$875 | Common in 1980s SF apartments |
| Shower pan or full stall refinishing | $949–$1,050 | Bundle with the tub on one trip |
| Sink reglazing (pedestal, vanity) | $435–$500 | Add to a tub visit for less |
| Countertop / vanity refinishing | $540–$650 | Whole-bathroom refresh |
| Tub-surround tile reglazing | from $549 | Recolor dated tile, no tear-out |
| Slip-resistant tub bottom (recommended for rentals) | +$75 | Reduces tenant slip liability |
Tell us the unit count and addresses and we route the building onto the fewest trips — call (650) 710-4607 for a flat per-unit figure. Single-fixture ranges live on the full pricing page.
Every unit is backed by a written 5-year warranty.
The number that actually matters
Turnover economics: vacancy days, not just the invoice
Most owners compare reglazing to replacement on the invoice line — $749–$900 versus $3,500–$8,000 — and the spread is decisive on its own. But for a rental, the bigger number is the one that never shows up on a quote: vacancy days. San Francisco's median rents put a one-bedroom in the low-to-mid thousands a month, which works out to well over $100 a day of lost rent for every day a unit sits empty. A tub replacement that takes ten working days of demolition, plumbing, tile and inspection can quietly burn a four-figure hole in your month before the first applicant even tours the place.
Reglazing collapses that timeline. We reglaze a fixture in 3–5 hours and the finish cures in 24–48; a unit handed to us on a Monday morning is dry, re-caulked and tour-ready by Wednesday. If we time the work into the natural gap between a move-out walkthrough and a move-in, the cure runs entirely inside the vacancy you already had — so the reglaze costs you zero extra rented nights. Against a tear-out, that is roughly one to two weeks of recovered rent per unit, on top of the thousands saved on the fixture itself. For a manager turning a dozen units a year, the vacancy-day savings alone can dwarf the line-item discount.
The finish holds up to the punishment of rental life, too. A properly prepped acrylic-urethane coat is dense and non-porous, so it shrugs off the hard-water spotting and surface staining that dull bare old enamel, and it wipes down between tenants with a soft cloth and a non-abrasive cleaner — no scrubbing, no special products. We hand property managers the same written 5-year warranty we give homeowners, which means a reglazed unit is covered through several tenant cycles, not just the first.
One route, several units
How a multi-unit San Francisco turnover runs
We build the schedule around your vacancy calendar so the cure window never lands on a rentable day.
- Building walk-through and flat quote. We look at the fixtures across the units, confirm whether each is cast iron, steel, porcelain, fiberglass or acrylic, note the condition, and give you one flat per-unit price in writing — no per-visit surprises.
- Schedule to the vacancy. We slot each reglaze into the gap between move-out and move-in and book units back to back so a building's worth of bathrooms turns on the fewest trips across the city.
- Reglaze each fixture in place. Mask and ventilate the bathroom, deep-clean off tenant soap film, repair chips and rust, acid-etch porcelain or scuff-sand fiberglass, prime, then spray several thin coats of acrylic-urethane — 3 to 5 hours per fixture.
- Cure and clear. The unit cures 24–48 hours; we re-caulk with fresh silicone, reset the hardware, haul out the masking and leave the bathroom show-ready for the next applicant.
- Warranty and records. You get a written 5-year warranty per unit and clean documentation for your maintenance files, so the work is logged for the building.
Around tenants, not over them
Scheduling around occupied units and tight buildings
Not every job is a clean vacancy. Plenty of San Francisco managers need a chipped or rust-stained tub refreshed while a long-term tenant stays put, and that changes how we work, not whether we can. For occupied units we set the visit early in the day, contain and ventilate the bathroom so overspray and solvent odor stay inside it, and time the cure so the tenant has the surface back the next evening. Tenants get a plain-language note up front: one bathroom out of service for a day, windows cropped open, finish ready in 24 to 48 hours. We coordinate that access through you or the building super so nobody is surprised.
San Francisco's buildings add their own wrinkles, and we plan for them. Upper-floor walk-ups in Russian Hill and Nob Hill, narrow Victorian hallways in the Haight, single-stair flats in North Beach — we figure out gear access and containment before the crew arrives, so a fourth-floor unit takes the same disciplined setup as a ground-floor one. For HOAs and condo towers in SoMa and Rincon Hill, we work within building rules on elevator reservations, work hours and common-area protection, and we carry the liability coverage those buildings ask for. The goal everywhere is the same: get in, contain the work, and get the bathroom back without disrupting the rest of the building.
Who we work with across the city
We handle the full range of San Francisco operators. Single-building landlords with a duplex or triplex in Bernal Heights or the Excelsior call us between tenants; management companies running scattered-site portfolios hand us a turnover list and one address sheet. Boutique hotels and inns around North Beach and Union Square use us to refresh guest baths room by room without taking floors offline, and SRO and residential-hotel operators in the Tenderloin and SoMa keep us busy with high-cycle fixtures. Condo HOAs bring us in for whole-building tub and surround refreshes that one homeowner-by-homeowner job could never coordinate cheaply.
The common thread is downtime, and the answer is the one-day-per-fixture timeline. For larger accounts we keep it simple: one point of contact, a flat per-unit rate agreed before we start, and a schedule that respects your tenant and guest calendar. If your units sit across several ZIP codes — a building in the Mission at 94110, another in the Richmond at 94118, a third out in the Sunset at 94122 — we route the whole run together so the same crew and the same finish go into every bathroom, with no per-stop travel fee inside the city. See areas served for the neighborhoods and ZIPs we cover, or read how long the finish lasts under back-to-back rental use.
Turnover before & after — Outer Sunset
A 1980s fiberglass tub-and-shower unit refinished between tenants in an Outer Sunset fourplex — back in service the same week. Hover or tap to reveal.
What San Francisco property managers say
I manage a handful of units in the Mission and a tub between tenants used to mean a week of downtime. They reglaze it in one morning and I list the unit two days later. The per-tub price beats replacement every single time.
— Carla M., the Mission
Three Outer Sunset fiberglass units done over two days between move-outs. The finish has held a full year of renters and every unit showed better the day after. One contact, one flat rate, no surprises.
— Vincent L., Outer Sunset
Our SoMa HOA needed the tubs in eight units refreshed without floors going dark. They worked within our elevator and quiet-hours rules and finished the run with documentation for the board. Spotless.
— Renee T., SoMa
San Francisco property manager reglazing FAQ
Who handles multi-unit and rental reglazing in San Francisco?
SF Bathtub Reglazing Specialists handles multi-unit, rental, HOA and hotel reglazing across San Francisco, CA, from Mission triplexes to SoMa condo towers — roughly 410 units across about 70 buildings since 2012. Per-unit bathtub reglazing starts at $749, and batching units lowers the per-fixture rate. Call (650) 710-4607, Mon–Fri 8 AM–6 PM and Sat 9 AM–4 PM, for a building walk-through.
How much does per-unit reglazing cost for a San Francisco landlord?
Per-unit bathtub reglazing runs $749–$900, a one-piece fiberglass tub-and-shower unit $749–$875, sinks $435–$500 and tub-surround tile from $549. Booking four or more units on one route trims the per-fixture price because we mask, ventilate and set up once instead of every visit.
How fast is the turnover turnaround?
Each tub is reglazed in 3–5 hours on site, then cures 24–48 hours. A unit done Monday is re-rentable by Wednesday, and we stack several units back to back so a whole building turns in a few days, not weeks.
Can you schedule around tenants and vacancy windows?
Yes. We coordinate access with the property manager or super and slot the reglaze into the gap between move-out and move-in, so the 24–48 hour cure runs during the vacancy and never costs you a rented night. Occupied-unit work is scheduled around the tenant's day.
Do you work with HOAs and small hotels, not just apartment owners?
Yes. We reglaze for single-building HOAs and condo associations, North Beach and Union Square boutique hotels and SRO operators, alongside apartment landlords and management companies. One point of contact, a flat per-unit rate agreed up front, and documentation for your records.
Is the finish durable enough for back-to-back tenant use?
Yes. A sprayed acrylic-urethane finish is dense and non-porous, stands up to repeated tenant cycles for 10–15 years, and wipes clean between renters with a soft cloth. Every unit carries the same written 5-year warranty we give homeowners.
Get a per-unit quote for your San Francisco building
Mon–Fri 8 AM–6 PM, Sat 9 AM–4 PM. One day per fixture, batch pricing across the building. Fully licensed & insured, backed by a written 5-year warranty.