Painting tiles, removing old tile paint

[allymillsy]

hello

I painted my tiles in my bathroom a few years back, now some of paint is chipping off and becoming messy and tatty looking.

Is it better chipping all the paint off and starting again? or could i chip off all the bits that are needed and apply new tile paint over this?

would it show the areas which have been chipped away or is there a way around this? There would be quite a looked tile paint to chip away

thanks for any responses in advance

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[Gary59]

I would try rubbing down the old paint and concentrate my efforts on the areas where the paint has chipped away with some medium and then fine glass paper before repainting the tiles.

 

[allymillsy]

so i would have to chip every single bit of paint?

 

[howiel]

I dont see why people paint on tiles it looks god awfull, well mine is, who ever done it should be shot ! Iam in the process of removing the god awfull orange stuff with a steamer if that aint no good I'll have to use a chemical

 

[allymillsy]

hi

is the best thing to do remove all the paint or could i get away with scrappin away the chipped paint and applying new tile paint on top?

 

[Gary59]

See my above post, it already answered the question.

I did not recommend scraping paint....

 

[confidentincompetent]

chemical strippers work very well on glazed tiles, apply, wait a bit and it almost dust's off in sheets. (guess this is because stripper cant saok into glazed tile). To paint I used to just dull the tiles with fine wet&dry then one or two coats of gloss only, dont use undercoat. But I did some glazed tiles recently and after cleaning used 'Owatrol ESP' as a primer.
good luck

 

[allymillsy]

Thanks

 

[Moz]

allymillsy

chemical strippers

what they forgot to say is make sure you ventilate the room ,

as the fumes may get you flying out of the room
or being carried out ...