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 industry leading durability for bathtubs, tile, and any porcelain or fiberglass surface.

We use a dual primer system developed through decades of lab and in the field testing, creating a strong bond between your existing fixtures and our professional coatings. Paired with our best in the business surface prep process, your refinished bathroom or kitchen surface cures properly, resists fading, and is built to last.

As senior members of the Professional Bathtub Refinishers Association (PBRA), our extended team brings over 300 years of combined refinishing experience to every residential and commercial project. Every job includes a 5-year written warranty, 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 Shawangunk, New York.

Shawangunk is a town in southwestern Ulster County, New York, United States. The population was 13,563 at the 2020 census. The town takes its name from its largest stream, the Shawangunk Kill. The name Shawangunk is from the language of the Lenape people. Kill is an abbreviation of the Dutch word for creek, Killitje. Shawangunk was first settled by Europeans during the 1680s. The region was first designated a precinct about 1710, and became the township of Shawangunk in 1788. The town's name comes from the Dutch transliteration of the Munsee Lenape name or phrase. The approximate Lenape pronunciation was "Sha-WAN-gunk," probably meaning "in the smoky air." The name first appears in the 1682 Indian deed to Gertrude Bruyn. It is uncertain if this was the Indians' actual proper name for their nearby village and "New Fort," destroyed by the Dutch on September 5, 1663, during the Second Esopus War, or if the name was merely a phrase invented by the Indians in connection with the Bruyn land purchase, possibly describing some temporary feature of the landscape. Suggestions as to whether the name may have referred to smoky conditions on the day of Bruyn's first tour of the land with the Indians in the 1670s, or to the smoky ruins of the destroyed Indian village during the preceding decade, are purely speculative. Use of the name to designate the creek on which Bruyn settled (Shawangunk Kill), and the mountain range, came somewhat later. Locals pronounce the name "SHONG-gum," a corruption or contraction of the original name, but one on record at least as far back as 1777 (Marc B. Fried, "Shawangunk Place-names" pp. ix-xi, 3-12, 96-97). Present-day citizens of Shawangunk often refer to themselves as living in particular hamlets such as Wallkill or Walker Valley rather than the town as a whole; this is due to the fact that many residents of the western part of the town are in the school district of Pine Bush (nearby across the county line) and have Pine Bush mailing addresses, also doing much of their shopping in that Orange County hamlet.