Floor Tile Grout Painting

Glazed tile is a durable attractive material for bathrooms kitchen backsplashes and floors but over time the grout can become discolored or damaged to quickly refresh your tile consider reviving the grout with paint.

Floor tile grout painting.

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. Grout paint absorbs into unsealed materials and won t easily wash off. Painting tile floors seems like a common sense fix to an ugly tile problem. Ugly stained damaged and cracked grout can ruin the look of a tile floor.

Ray hayden freshens up the grout lines on a tile floor with exterior semi gloss acrylic water based paint. Painting the grout will also serve to seal and protect the grout and make it much easier to clean and maintain. I have small tiles on my bathroom floor so the grout lines are thin does this grout paint wash off your tiles themselves. If you plan on painting tile floors with a pattern don t seal the tile just yet.

Painting the grout with a grout colorant is often times the only way to restore the original look and color of the grout. The tile is sealed so it won t absorb any of the grout paint. Yep as long as your tiles are not absorbent natural stone would absorb the paint you can wipe it off the tile when the paint is wet or once the paint dries you can. Remove any masking tape and spruce up the grout lines by painting over them with grout paint if needed.

Tile grout paint is for sealed or glazed tiles but not unfinished or raw tiles such as terracotta or natural stone tiles. So a do it yourself grout paint job can be as low as 0 04 to. Sanded grout is rough so you ve got. There s plenty of painted grout line tutorials on the web many of them showing the process of painting with specialty grout paint pens or small intricate artist brushes.

March 28 2020 at 1 35 pm. Eight ounces of grout paint runs about 12 to 15 and can cover between 50 to 300 square feet depending on the width of grout lines. If you are painting grout next to porous unsealed tile you want to seal it before you paint the grout the trick is to keep the paintbrush thickly loaded with groutrenew so there s enough to flood around all the little gritty protrusions.