Our refinishing process features advanced surface preparation, environmentally conscious cleaning systems, and premium coatings applied pure and uncut—never diluted or repackaged. This approach ensures superior adhesion, a smooth factory-like finish, and extended durability for bathtubs, tile, and porcelain surfaces.

We use an industry-leading primer system developed through extensive testing, creating a strong bond between your existing fixtures and our professional coatings. Paired with our exclusive UV curing technology, your refinished bathtub or tile surface cures properly, resists fading, and is built to last.

As senior members of the Professional Bathtub Refinishers Association (PBRA), our team brings over 300 years of combined refinishing experience to every residential and commercial project in Connecticut. Every job includes a 5-year written warranty against delamination, giving you confidence and peace of mind.

Whether you call it bathtub refinishing, tile refinishing, tub reglazing, porcelain resurfacing, or bathtub reglazing, we provide consistent, high-quality results at a fraction of replacement costs. View our local work and contact The Painted Otter Refinishers today for professional service in Connecticut.

The state is named after the Connecticut River, the longest in New England, which roughly bisects the state and drains into the Long Island Sound between the towns of Old Saybrook and Old Lyme. The name of the river is in turn derived from anglicized spellings of Quinnetuket, a Mohegan-Pequot word for "long tidal river". Before the arrival of the first European settlers, the region was inhabited by various Algonquian tribes. In 1633, the Dutch West India Company established a small, short-lived settlement called House of Hope in Hartford. Half of Connecticut was initially claimed by the Dutch colony New Netherland, which included much of the land between the Connecticut and Delaware Rivers, although the first major settlements were established by the English around the same time. Thomas Hooker led a band of followers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony to form the Connecticut Colony, while other settlers from Massachusetts founded the Saybrook Colony and the New Haven Colony; both had merged into the first by 1664. Connecticut's official nickname, the "Constitution State", refers to the Fundamental Orders adopted by the Connecticut Colony in 1639, which is considered by some to be the first written constitution in Western history. As one of the Thirteen Colonies that rejected British rule during the American Revolution, Connecticut was influential in the development of the federal government of the United States. In 1787, Roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth, state delegates to the Constitutional Convention, proposed a compromise between the Virginia and New Jersey Plans; its bicameral structure for Congress, with a respectively proportional and equal representation of the states in the House of Representatives and Senate, was adopted and remains to this day. In January 1788, Connecticut became the fifth state to ratify the Constitution.