Tile paint and durability

[TheRowans]

Our kitchen had the classic eighties horror "Oatmeal tiles with rustic motif", so decided to use tile paint. Very pleased with the finish, as I had been very dubious to how good it would look. Went on like a dream with a gloss roller, and has transformed the kithcen for very little money.

Unfortunately, the paint is quite easily scratched off. It was painted 4 days ago, but still managed to accidentally scratch off some last night. The tiles were prepped as per instruction before, grease and dirt free, and the paint needed no primer.

I can't keep touching up all the time! Anyone else had this problem and any suggestion on how to increase the durability?

 

[gcol]

Yep that's the trouble with painting tiles. I'd rip em off and re-tile or you'll be touching them up for ever and a day. Or I suppose you could scrape the paint off and tile over the top if you wanna do it on the cheap. It'll look better if you take them off and re-tile though. One of the beauties of tiles is that they're hardwearing, if you paint them they no longer have a hardy finish.

 

[Moz]

as gcol says painting tiles is a nightmare /horrible finish , +never tile over painted tiles now as the adhesive will not stick too the tile an it will fail