Ceramic tiles are installed permanently. Unfortunately, colours that are in style seem to spending money every rare months. Provided you include some perfectly pleasant ceramic tiles on your bathroom walls, cookhouse counters or still your floors that own out elsewhere of fashion, don't fret. Using a diminutive "elbow grease", some patience and stain you can purchase your tiles back in style (and at a bill that Testament permit Sufficiently chicamin to get a stylish outfit for someone).
Instructions
Preparing Tiles
1. Depart by giving your tiles a commendable cleaning. Exercise a deluxe bathroom cleaner or a 50:50 brew of household ammonia and hose.
2. After the tiles admit Dried apricot, bestow them a burnished sanding with useful sandpaper (approximately 200 grit).8. Optionally, you can do some decorative painting or stenciling (again using alkyd paint) to customize your newly painted tiles.9. Wait for two or three days to be sure the paint has dried completely and then apply a couple of coats of water based urethane finish to protect the paint. (Oil based urethane will brown or yellow over time while water based will remain clear).
Painting Tiles
4. Protect the area around your tiles with painter's tape or masking tape.
5. Apply a coat of primer to your tiles. If they're in an area where they'll get lots of moisture (like around your bathtub) use an alcohol-based primer, in other areas a latex primer will be fine.
6. After the primer has dried, apply a coat of semi gloss or high gloss alkyd paint and allow it to dry thoroughly (overnight is good).
7. Apply a second coat of your chosen paint and allow it to dry. If you want to paint the grout lines in a contrasting color you can do it using an artist's brush and alkyd paint.
Here you fair-minded fancy to roughen the surface so the primer and distemper Testament adhere to the hard, shiny tile surface.3. Finally, clean up any sanding dust with a vacuum then wash the tiles with clean water and let them dry.
