How to make this tub look less shitty

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How to make this tub look less shitty Anonymous 02/28/15 (Sat) 15:09:17 No.181

So, this is the bath tub in my apartment. It's clear that it is not made out of porcelain, but rather some other material that was painted over in white, and the paint has slowly gone away over the years, leaving this situation.

How do I clean it/make it look better?

Anonymous 03/01/15 (Sun) 14:26:19 No.182

>Go to a good hardware store.
>toilet bowl cleaner isle
>toilet bowl cleaner with highest percentage hydrochloric acid
Not "cling" type
>Pour on, let sit a few or untill fumes get bad.
>profit.

'Member kids, water neutralizes acid,but not fumes.
evacuate/exaust the fumes!

Anonymous 03/01/15 (Sun) 14:51:21 No.183

>>181
>How do I clean it/make it look better?

Replace it. That's an awful looking tub.

Or try what >>182 said, but don't be surprised if you die. Fumes can kill.

Anonymous 03/01/15 (Sun) 16:40:32 No.184

>>182
It may not be obvious in the picture, but I do not believe that the surface of the tub under that paint is actually white (therefore, I don't believe acid is going to help).

It looks to me like every time a resident moved from the apartment, the maintenance guys came in and covered the whole tub over with paint or some other material to make it look white, and over time that material has come off.

You can see that different parts of the tub are different tones of white, and I believe that is the reason why.

>>183
I'm pretty sure replacing the tub is outside the scope of what I'm going to be able to do in an apartment.

Anonymous 03/02/15 (Mon) 15:00:19 No.185

>>184
If you're renting (which it sounds like you are), your best bet is to either call your landlord and bitch up a storm about it (that's a grimy as fuck bathtub man) or to deal with it. It's not likely that anything you do to it is going to make it any better. I mean, you could try to sand it down just to see what happens, but I doubt that's going to make it any better.

Like I said, I'd call up your landlord and file some kind of complaint. Either that, or there might be some kind of local organization to report slum lords. If the rest of your apartment is in OK shape, I'd probably just try to contact your landlord.