Sealing Painted Floor Tiles

After all you can paint an ugly wall or an outdated door why not paint some floor tiles.

Sealing painted floor tiles.

First consider your supplies. Simply let the tile dry for two or three days before moving on and seal after the pattern has dried. I probably spent about 15 total hours painting it and it looked stunning. I rolled on 3 coats of minwax polyacrylic to seal it.

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. How to seal painted tile floors. Ugly stained damaged and cracked grout can ruin the look of a tile floor. Quick drying sealers to put over painted floors.

If you plan on painting tile floors with a pattern don t seal the tile just yet. Painting the grout will also serve to seal and protect the grout and make it much easier to clean and maintain. If the paint underneath the sealer peels so will the sealer you use. Your clear sealer urethane sealer for ceramic or porcelain or masonry sealer for natural.

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. Painting the grout with a grout colorant is often times the only way to restore the original look and color of the grout. Without the proper paint a good sealer won t be able to do its job. If you think you can paint floors with regular wall paint you re sadly mistaken.

I was honestly convinced that the best diy project ever was painting tile floors. Painting a wood or concrete floor can be a complicated process that involves floor filler sandpaper and several coats of paint. 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.

Finally sealing the painted bathroom tile protects your project from grime scuff marks and scratches. It ll level out nice. Paint manufacturers offer super durable porch and floor paint products and sealers that will keep your painted floors well painted. Oil based paints work well for painting on ceramic tiles and are available online or at craft and art supply stores.

Can you paint floor tiles. Three coats of sealer. 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. It ll be real shiny real pretty and it ll protect that painted floor.