Painting Tiles: How It Works
You don’t have to make expensive renovations to give the tiles a new look. We show you step by step how to paint tiles.
Painting tiles: Preparation
- Select tile colour: For the new wall design, you should go to the hardware store to choose the paint you want and get painting utensils.
- Cover the fittings: As with painting walls, taps and sockets should be covered so that they are not sprayed with the tile paint.
- Pre-treat tiles: Just paint it over, ready? No! To ensure that the tile paint can be applied uniformly to the tiles, we should sand off any unevenness and roughen the tile surface. Sandpaper is suitable for this. Cracked joints should be repaired with joint white. If the silicone joints are too damaged, they should be cut out and replaced.
- Clean tiles: Tiles and joints should be cleaned thoroughly before painting. Tile cleaner or vinegar can help here. But especially the joints are quite sensitive to acid, so you should pay attention to a few things when cleaning.
- Priming tiles: Before we get to the painting, we should apply a primer with a foam roller. The primer should proceed quickly and dry well (about 16 to 24 hours).
Painting tiles: Step by step
In general, painting is preferably suitable on wall tiles, as the paint on floor tiles wears off quickly and needs to be rebrushed more often.
- First layer of paint: The tile paint can now be applied with a hard foam roller. When mixing, follow the manufacturer’s instructions and note that after about six hours the paint begins to harden and therefore only as much paint as necessary should be mixed.
- Drying phase: before applying another coat of tile paint, the first one must dry. For the correct minimum duration, the same applies here: Observe manufacturer’s instructions.
- Second coat of paint: To make the old tile colours and any patterns disappear, paint the tiles again. For this, simply paint the surface repeatedly with tile varnish.
- Drying time: Then it is again: wait until the paint is dry. And afterwards you can already be happy about the result. You did a good job! 😉
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