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[counturchickens]

Has anyone had any success with painting bathroom tiles? We've inherited a fully tiles bathroom, but the design isn't to my taste. They are quite pale, so was thinking white or cream, to cover the birth of Venus mural

[Geoid]

You can buy special tile paint, but you need to make sure you prep the tiles well, scrub them with sugar soap and water, then give a light sanding with some fine grit sandpaper.

[Egluntyne]

I'd re-tile. Painted tiles look - well, like tiles that have been painted!

[counturchickens]

I know what you mean. The other thought was to track down the same background tiles and just remove the murals. One of them i can cover with a mirror, but there are 2 more to cover.

[Gertie]

You can get tile transfers, like a sticker I suppose. The people in my old house before we bought it had applied shells & other nautical themed items to random tiles.

 

R they vintage tiles! If you can remove whole they might be worth selling?

[CatieB]

As mentioned they will always look painted as the grout also gets painted.

 

When we bought my house, behind our Rayburn was tiled plain cream tiles with a wild bird mural down the middle. Not my taste at all. I bought transfers and have put them over the bird picture. It probably doesnt look like original tiles and looks like transfers. However in my opinion it looks a lot better than a bird mural and its something I can live with until we do the kitchen.

[counturchickens]

Not vintage unfortunately. I guess they were put on in the 80's or 90's. I think they might all have to come off and start again, next year though!

[WitchHazel]

Not vintage unfortunately. I guess they were put on in the 80's or 90's. I think they might all have to come off and start again, next year though!

 

Don't take them off, tile over them. If you take the m off you will need to do a lot of repairs and a lot of work to get the walls even.

[chickencam]

Don't take them off, tile over them. If you take the m off you will need to do a lot of repairs and a lot of work to get the walls even.

 

How well does tiling over tiles work, because we have a fully tiled bathroom dating back tom the mid 80's and it desperately need redoing, OH wants to tile over, but I thought that the tiles wouldn't stick properly? A few neighbours have had their's done though and have had to replace some of the plasterboard after taking the old tiles down, so i am torn. OH wants to do the bathroom ourselves.

[WitchHazel]

Don't take them off, tile over them. If you take the m off you will need to do a lot of repairs and a lot of work to get the walls even.

 

How well does tiling over tiles work, because we have a fully tiled bathroom dating back tom the mid 80's and it desperately need redoing, OH wants to tile over, but I thought that the tiles wouldn't stick properly? A few neighbours have had their's done though and have had to replace some of the plasterboard after taking the old tiles down, so i am torn. OH wants to do the bathroom ourselves.

 

I seem to remember that the professionally recommended course of action is to tile over. You cactualy then have a good base to work from.

 

You could always ask a tiler to come and quote and see what his recommended course of action would be.

[PurpleTree]

My MIL painted the tiles in her bathroom about 10 years ago, they quite quickly looked shabby & the paint started bubbling & peeling off where any bathroom cleaner touched it.

 

When I had a handy man in earlier this year putting in our ensuite, I was asking him the best thing to do with our bathroom. It's fully tiled, bottom half is black tile, top half is white marbly tiles. Looks nice but I think it looks quite dark in there. He recommended tiling over them all.

[Space Chick]

we had our en suite done recently and they tiled over the tiles, its the best way apparently

 

I once painted tiles in a kitchen..... WORST MISTAKE EVER!!!! It looked hideous, and as PurpleTree said, looks really shabby as starts to peel quickly.

[majorbloodnock]

Tiling over tiles can certainly be done, but I'm not sure I'd recommend it. The main reason is that you're relying on the tile adhesive under the original tiles being in sound condition, since it's about to have to support twice the weight of tiles it was doing before. And if, subsequently, any of the original tiles do come loose, fixing two layers is rather more significant than just one.

 

Let's not forget, too, that a tradesperson's recommendation is not purely based on quality; if they can avoid any time-consuming preparatory work, it makes the job more cost effective to take on. I'm not suggesting any of the tradespeople mentioned here have been cutting corners, but their approach may not necessarily be what you'd choose if you were doing the work yourself.

[Spinning Top]

I'd re-tile. Painted tiles look - well, like tiles that have been painted!

I've painted tiles twice, both when the budget was really tight in my first home. Tile paint is horrible sticky stuff and you can't scrub the tiles properly afterwards for fear of taking the paint off.

[chickweed]

We tiled on tiles 20 years ago and they always looked good. We have had some building work done recently so have had to start afresh. My neighbour has 3 layers of tiles in her bathroom

[Lesley]

We moved into this house when it was just 4 months old so everything was new - unfortunately the bathroom was fully tiled - top half beige which I could live with - bottom half a very orangey terracotta coloured tile. I had to paint the orange ones! I can't say I like the tile paint but anything was better than orange! They stayed painted for about a year until we covered the that part of the room with T&G panelling.

 

I also hated the kitchen tiles and so I tiled over them - as long as the base is sound then it works really well and I've never had a problem with doing it - tiling was always my job when I used to work with my Ex as a plumber.