Paint Your Tile Floor

Paint is much cheaper than the expense of tiling over the existing floor.

Paint your tile floor. You can easily paint both vinyl flooring sheet flooring and tile and ceramic tile with the proper preparation. Continue pulling up your stencil and going to the next tile etc until your floor is covered. Sometimes i like to use a blow dryer to blow all the debris off of my painting surface. Once the surface is dry lightly sand the tiles to score the surface using 220 grit sandpaper for ceramic tiles.

Simply follow the directions on the rustoleum tile paint kit to mix the solution in water and start wiping down the floor with a clean cloth. If your old vinyl flooring or ceramic tile looks tired consider painting the surface. 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. Choosing a paint for tile flooring.

Chalk paint can be applied without primer to lend a shabby chic solid color to the. If you have any paint seepage underneath you can repair it with a small artist brush once all of the paint is dry. If you bought the rustoleum tile paint kit then it comes with a floor cleaner but if you didn t purchase this floor paint kit then grab some vinegar and water to clean your tile floor. Before you do anything you need to make sure your floors are clean.

This will remove any glaze and help the new paint to adhere better. I painted our floor tile in the same way as i primed it using a paint brush on the edges and on the grout and rollering the rest as i went as with the primer i used a 1 4 inch mini roller like. When painting a tile floor the following three types of paint work best. After all you can paint an ugly wall or an outdated door why not paint some floor tiles.

Painting tile floors seems like a common sense fix to an ugly tile problem. Wipe off your floors really well because anything left will get stuck in your paint. Sand the tiles with fine grit sandpaper. Allow your paint to dry thoroughly.