Can apartments charge for priming and bathroom reglaze after move out?
Landlords are charging departing tenants for normal maintenance like priming and bathroom reglazing, labeling them as damages rather than normal wear and tear. This leaves renters questioning whether they are legally required to pay for these steep repair and replacement costs.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Disputing the charges with the landlord
- 2Asking for photographic evidence of the alleged damages
- 3Arguing that items like bathroom reglazing have exceeded their useful life
- 4Trying to source expensive or rare replacement parts online
- 5Consulting electricians or online forums to determine the actual cause of damage and contest liability
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
r/askanelectrician1 person · October 2026
r/moving1 person · October 2026
“We recently moved out and they are charging us for "priming" and "bathroom reglaze." We have no damages and they are saying it is not normal wear and tear. Is this a valid charge or should we dispute?”source ↗
Ok-Wear-1336 · r/moving · 3 upvotes
Where this came up
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