Free 2-day Shipping On Millions of Items. How do you repair a hole in a fiberglass tub? Can a crack in a fiberglass bathtub be repaired? How to fix a crack in a fiberglass bathtub?
Purchase a suitable kit for your shower (or bathtub ). You should make sure your shower or bathtub is fiberglass.
Clean the area to be repaired. Cut any jagged or protruding glass fibers around the damaged area, sand it lightly. Determine if the damaged area will require fiberglass.
Some quick steps are: Spread epoxy on the plywood and press it onto the crack, from the unexposed side of the pan, to seal it. Apply the upper layer of epoxy on the exposed surface and sand it down. Cut a fiberglass fabric according to the width of the hole.
Apply the mixed epoxy resin on the hole halfway full, then insert the fiberglass fabric to patch the hole and reinforce the resin. Apply more epoxy on top of the fiberglass fabric until it becomes invisible. Wipe excess epoxy film on the surface.
Replacing a damaged bathtub is not cheap. So today we decided to fix that hole.