When replacing floor tiles is so costly time consuming and messy a coat of paint seems like the obvious budget friendly alternative but this seemingly obvious diy solution isn t the fix all you d hope for.
Tile and laminate paint reviews.
Let me first recap the two posts that i will be reviewing and share a before picture.
After all you can paint an ugly wall or an outdated door why not paint some floor tiles.
Specially formulated to provide excellent adhesion durability and color retention in high moisture areas.
If one coat is insufficient wait for at least 24 hours between one coat and another.
It is not standard practice to take a roller to your kitchen or bathroom floor tile.
Most of you probably don t realize that i ve written two posts with two different techniques on how i painted our laminate kitchen cabinets.
Best practices for painting tile.
To achieve good results paint one tile at a time paying particular attention to the joints.
We were also considering using the white knight tile paint and grout pen to update our splashback also currently cream.
Using white knight tile and laminate paint see how this kitchen is transformed from old and tired to brand new.
Tile paint works best on vertical surfaces that receive less abuse including backsplashes wall tile and wainscot tile.
White knight laminate paint varnish.
Painting tile floors seems like a common sense fix to an ugly tile problem.
White tub and tile refinishing rust oleum 1 qt.
Also i ll be discussing painting laminate with primer and painting laminate without primer.
As i understand it the tile paint and laminate paint are the same type of paint but the tile paint is high gloss and the laminate paint dries with satin finish.
Being happy with the result there i finally decided that the cost of the paint and a little of my labour wasn t a big deal and if it all went horribly wrong i could remove the paint from my wall tile.
Paint on horizontal tiled surfaces that receive traffic will soon wear off.
White tub and tile refinishing kit is a two part epoxy acrylic designed to rejuvenate ceramic and porcelain surfaces like tubs sinks and showers in just minutes.
But the two could be interchanged if desired.
Stick with vertical surfaces.