Acrylic Over Fiberglass: The Better Walk-In Tub Choice | Voted Safest/Best 2020 | Ella’s Bubbles

so a huge factor for us when selecting a walk-in bathtub manufacturer to work with is service so we offer a lifetime warranty on all of our bathtubs all of our installations the first thing you need to consider is what is the bathtub constructed out of uh you have acrylic bathtubs you have fiberglass bathtubs my perspective on those two is this our bathtubs are acrylic it's the same material you would build a football helmet out of bulletproof glass it's one solid piece of material over the entire bathtub there's no potential for chipping cracking if for any reason this bathtub ever got dull we can buff it right out very easy very low maintenance very very low service very low service requirements on this bathtub what's the problem with fiberglass one fiberglass chips fiberglass cracks it's a multi-layer system starting with a gel coat then building it up with fiberglass resin the actual finish is very brittle these bathtubs expand they contract hot cold water moving inside the bathtubs i have had to go out when we did install these bathtubs i couldn't even tell you how many times and go out with a full-blown fiberglass repair then refinish it then buff it polish it you name it stay away from fiberglass bathtubs