Painting the grout will also serve to seal and protect the grout and make it much easier to clean and maintain.
Sealing painted floor tiles.
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.
Finally sealing the painted bathroom tile protects your project from grime scuff marks and scratches.
If you think you can paint floors with regular wall paint you re sadly mistaken.
You don t want to brush it on because if you use the mop with the lambs wool applicator you ll have no brush strokes.
Paint manufacturers offer super durable porch and floor paint products and sealers that will keep your painted floors well painted.
It requires 2 hours of dry time in between so i applied the first two and just to be safe the last coat i applied pretty heavily then let dry overnight.
It ll level out nice.
I was honestly convinced that the best diy project ever was painting tile floors.
I rolled on 3 coats of minwax polyacrylic to seal it.
And if you re planning a floor to ceiling paint party paint your floors after you paint everything.
And you use that to sort of mop the polyurethane onto the floor.
After all you can paint an ugly wall or an outdated door why not paint some floor tiles.
It ll be real shiny real pretty and it ll protect that painted floor.
Without the proper paint a good sealer won t be able to do its job.
Oil based paints work well for painting on ceramic tiles and are available online or at craft and art supply stores.
Painting tile floors seems like a common sense fix to an ugly tile problem.
So once it s done.
First consider your supplies.
Painting a wood or concrete floor can be a complicated process that involves floor filler sandpaper and several coats of paint.
Three coats of sealer.
How to seal painted tile floors.
Ugly stained damaged and cracked grout can ruin the look of a tile floor.
Simply let the tile dry for two or three days before moving on and seal after the pattern has dried.
If the paint underneath the sealer peels so will the sealer you use.
Can you paint floor tiles.
And i was so excited that our painted bathroom floors looked just like expensive cement tile.
Your clear sealer urethane sealer for ceramic or porcelain or masonry sealer for natural.
Quick drying sealers to put over painted floors.