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Fish Eyes

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DO NOT PAINT a shower. 5 reasons to not paint tile, showers or sinks.

What happens here

The fourth major problem was the appearance of 'fish eyes' in the paint finish, particularly on the bottom of the tub. The speaker meticulously followed the manufacturer's cleaning instructions, cleaning the surface twice, and even went 'above and beyond' by cleaning it three or four times with multiple cleaners, sanding pads, and steel wool to ensure a 100% clean and prepped surface. He recounts a previous instance where 'fish eyes' occurred due to insufficient cleaning, so he was extra diligent this time. However, despite these efforts, the 'fish eyes' still appeared, suggesting contaminants might have been inherent in the fiberglass material itself, leaching out and causing the paint to 'bead away' from the surface.

Goal: Highlight the persistent issue of 'fish eyes' in the paint finish despite extreme cleaning efforts.

Tools and materials

  • Cleaners — Thoroughly cleaning the tub surface prior to painting
  • Epoxy Paint — The product applied that developed 'fish eyes'
  • Fiberglass Tub — The surface being painted
  • Sanding Pads — Abrading the surface for adhesion and removing contaminants
  • Steel Wool — Further cleaning and abrading the surface

What they say

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to bite. And lo and behold, the bottom of the tub completely fisheyed really bad. No matter, you know, after all that cleaning and now the thing is actually completely ruined. I want to show you what the fisheye looks down here. And the only thing I can think is, you know, there's contaminants in the in a fiberglass or something that once I put the finish on that it was drawing it up through the fiberglass. I don't know. But we completely, you know, scrubbed and cleaned this thing for I don't know, an hour and a half, several hours cleaning it. went through multiple cleaners, um, sanding pads, steel wool, did everything we were supposed to do. I thought I had this thing 100% clean because I ran into a situation before where a tub like this fisheyed and I'm like, "This is not going to happen to me again. I'm going to get this thing completely clean and completely dry." And with all that work, it didn't work. I'm going to show you what it looks like right now. So, hopefully you can see those dark spots in those round. That's all fish eyes right there. Those are all spots where the product beaded away from the surface. Hope you can see right here. This is where the shower door was attached right there and there was silicone. And we completely scraped all the silicone off, scrubbed it, sanded it, cleaned it with uh multiple different cleaners to make sure there was no silicone residue on there anymore. And it's still fisheyed. So, reason number five why I would actually never attempt to do this again after all my hard work this spraying what I noticed when I was spraying it that I could never get it to actually like gel out and make it glossy and smooth. What I' what I've noticed it was going to be rough. I can see the flashing that the spray cans were creating and then the spray cans were also spitting a lot. So, um I'd have to keep taking it over here and spraying it on my masking paper and

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