Can a bathroom be remodeled in just one day?

By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Photo by Stephen B. Thornton

Installer Lee Reece with the company The Better Bath finishes off a bathroom remodel by installing a shower temperature control in the bathroom of an Arkadelphia home.

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Perhaps you've noticed television commercials featuring companies that claim to be able not only to remodel your bath, but do so in one day, and at a lower cost than conventional home remodelers, writes Helaine R. Williams in Saturday's HomeStyle section. You're skeptical. After all, you've long heard that the bathroom and the kitchen were the two most expensive and difficult rooms to remodel.

How can they do it? They are using bath-remodeling systems that began in the 1970s in the hotel/motel industry and, in recent years, are being used in private homes.

The companies specialize in quick installations of nonporous acrylic bathtub liners, wall covers, shower systems and other products guaranteed not to fade, peel, crack, scratch or fall prey to the cleanliness problems that plague traditional baths.

Read tomorrow's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for full details.

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