painting over wall tiles

woodlands · Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 11:37 pm Post Subject: painting over wall tiles

Has anyone painted over ceramic wall tiles in a kitchen. If so, was it successful?
I would appreciate any help as to how to do this.
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TexMex · Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 11:42 pm Post Subject:

Use tile paint. Should be OK. You see it done on TV makeover shows all time.

woodlands · Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 1:41 am Post Subject:

TexMex wrote:

Use tile paint. Should be OK. You see it done on TV makeover shows all time.

Not enough info. Just can't paint over tiles. Surely some preparation has to be done.

Bahco · Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 8:52 am Post Subject:

We've painted over tiles using the proper tile paint.
Looked very cheap and ended up having to retile

Suggest you strongly consider retiling as I'm sure that if you want your bathroom to look nice you will be very disappointed

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masona · Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 8:58 am Post Subject:

We have painted tiles at work tha last 4 yrs and not peeling yet, so the most important thing is preparation, I think they use white spirit to clean the tiles, it will tell you on the tin what to do anyway.
It can looks okay depending on colour and your layout. If the money is the issue then this would be cheapest way of doing it.