Browse Forums Bathrooms and Laundry 1 Nov 24, 2009 9:33 am Hi All,
We have a bathroom where the previous owners have already painted the tiles (and part of the bath tub, in a lovely (not!) blue. Currently we have a nice new vanity with modern white basin and flip mixer, blue painted tiles, and a bathtub that is yellowy/creamy with the top ring roughly painted blue! We are trying to freshen up the house for resale in a couple of years, and would like to make the bathroom more appealing to us and potential buyers. I would like to paint the bath and tiles with white knight products, gloss white. This will go really well with our wall paint colour. My question is, how will the white knight tile paint go with already painted tiles? I'm unsure what the tiles were painted with. Re: Painting over already painted tiles 2Nov 24, 2009 11:10 am Hi, have you thought about actually just replacing the tiles? You could also consider tiling up to the ceiling. You could save costs by removing the tiles yourself. Buying tiles on special and getting a tiler in to tile them. It might be worth getting an idea on cost to compare against the other work you were planning. It looks a fairly small area, so you may be surprised at the price. Paint your bath, replace the tapware in the bath and you will have a bright, modern bathroom. I think sometimes you can tell when tiles have been painted over and unless it's done really well, looks exactly like what it is... painted tiles. Good Luck Re: Painting over already painted tiles 3Nov 24, 2009 12:37 pm Thanks for your comments Jaelee. Unfortuneately this would probably blow our budget, as we are selling in 18 months. We are becoming very mindful of everything we spend on the house, cause we would like equal or more back come sale time for each additional $ we put into it. $200 of tub and tile paints and brushes is affordable, but $1-2K for tiling isn't. I wish it was Regarding the painted tile look, if it looks too bad, we can use white knights grout pen to over come that Re: Painting over already painted tiles 4Nov 24, 2009 12:54 pm I totally agree if the tiling was going to come in at that amount. But you may be surprised at how cheaply it can be done. Especially if you remove the old tiles yourself. That's why I suggested you get a price. I recently renovated our kitchen and removed all the tiles ourselves, picked up some really nice mossaic tiles from Bunnings and was only charged $250 to lay them in the kitchen. Totally modernised our kitchen for very little outlay. You can pick bargain tiles up all the time, and you don't need that much metreage. Just an idea. At the end of the day, whatever you choose to do, is going to look better than what is there now. Good luck .. would love for you to post an after photo when you finish. Re: Painting over already painted tiles 5Nov 25, 2009 7:05 pm What were they thinking?? We had our ensuite shower recess and the vanity splashback retiled for $300 when we were getting our house ready for sale. I had leftover tiles from our other bathroom reno (but they were cheap anyway - white gloss Johnson tiles from Bunnings), and as jaelee sugessted, we removed the old tiles ourselves. It was a cheap reno - we kept the vanity, floor tiles, toilet and shower base and just did wall tiles, shower screen and paint. A new mirror and shelf finished it off nicely. It made a huge difference to how the room looked, well worth it. And I'm sure it had an impact on our quick sale. I'd be reluctant to paint over already painted tiles. Unless you can remove the old paint.... Re: Painting over already painted tiles 6Nov 26, 2009 2:54 pm Painting painted tiles is tricky - they need to be prepped right otherwise the paint will peel off just by looking at it. There's some special stuff you need to get to prep the tiles with, I forget the name of it offhand, but what it does is seal the existing painted surface and give the new paint something to bond to. So first, the tiles have to be squeaky clean with all traces of dirt and dust and grease removed. Second, give the tiles a coat of the aforementioned stuff (which I will look on the bottle at home) Third, paint. It isn't an ideal solution as there is always the possibility that giving the tiles a whack will go through the paint to the colour underneath, and bathrooms are a wear area after all. Secondly, despite your best efforts the paint just might not stick, it'll depend to some extent on the quality of the original paint job. So it certainly can be done, I've done it successfully on some tiles that had been painted a hideous colour by the previous owner and because it was in the laundry I couldn't be bothered re-tiling it all. But you have to be aware of the limitations. If your patio is going to be 35 sqm then that's going to need Council Approval. The fact that they previously approved your 25sqm patio will be irelevant 1 5506 Levelling compound Ardit is the best but buy a bag of sand and make sand dam to protect your wood floor 2 15253 To put anything over slate you will need to put self level compound over the entire area as slate various in thickness and is very un even. To install most types of… 1 390 |