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Had a landlord paint the inside of my bathtub with white latex paint. Did you know that latex paint is slippery as fuck when wet? Because I fucking do now. I literally bought adhesive grip tape for the bottom of my tub/shower. By the end of my stay ~15 months later, nearly all the paint was chipped away from repeatedly being blasted with hot water and stepped on, revealing the years of hard water limescaling they were trying to cover up. Why fix it when you can cover it and create a serious safety hazard? But of course I had to scrub every spec of every surface before I left or lose my entire deposit.
And sometimes the old bathtubs, when the enamel is damaged, expose you to lead, so that’s fun.