Painting Tiles

[The_MAC]

Does anyone have experience with painting ceramic tiles?

I currently don't have the money nor the energy to redo the bathrooms after completing extensive renovations over the last 6 months (bathrooms are the most expensive reno exercises you can take on)

I want to spruce up the bathrooms which are not in a particularly bad shape, just a bit dull.

I'm particularly curios on what paint to use, how to prep the tiles and how to deal with painting the shower area (especially the shower floor).

I Youtubed a few vids, but most of them are in the US or Europe, and I don't know what the products are that they are using.

 

[Drifter]

We did the same. You get a specific paint to use. The guys at builders warehouse helped us out. Prepping involves washing the tiles with sugar soap beforehand. Tip: Scratch out all the grouting before you paint, once the paint is dry, regrout and it will look like new tiles.

 

[The_MAC]

Thanks for that.

What did you scratch the grout out with, was it by any chance that special grout-removal drill bit that you get, or was it the hand-held grout remover (looks like a narrow file type thing).

And the shower walls and floor?

 

[Drifter]

We just did the walls. Shower and the rest. No fancy tool, just an old flat point screw driver. Shower floor we re did with mosaic.