Sealing Painted Floor Tiles

Quick drying sealers to put over painted floors.

Sealing painted floor tiles.

I was honestly convinced that the best diy project ever was painting tile floors. How to seal painted tile floors. 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. Can you paint floor tiles.

After all you can paint an ugly wall or an outdated door why not paint some floor tiles. And if you re planning a floor to ceiling paint party paint your floors after you paint everything. So once it s done. Simply let the tile dry for two or three days before moving on and seal after the pattern has dried.

If you think you can paint floors with regular wall paint you re sadly mistaken. First consider your supplies. Oil based paints work well for painting on ceramic tiles and are available online or at craft and art supply stores. Three coats of sealer.

It ll level out nice. Painting tile floors seems like a common sense fix to an ugly tile problem. If you plan on painting tile floors with a pattern don t seal the tile just yet. I rolled on 3 coats of minwax polyacrylic to seal it.

It ll be real shiny real pretty and it ll protect that painted floor. If the paint underneath the sealer peels so will the sealer you use. Without the proper paint a good sealer won t be able to do its job. Painting the grout will also serve to seal and protect the grout and make it much easier to clean and maintain.

I probably spent about 15 total hours painting it and it looked stunning. 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. Paint manufacturers offer super durable porch and floor paint products and sealers that will keep your painted floors well painted. 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.

And i was so excited that our painted bathroom floors looked just like expensive cement tile. Your clear sealer urethane sealer for ceramic or porcelain or masonry sealer for natural. Ugly stained damaged and cracked grout can ruin the look of a tile floor. And you use that to sort of mop the polyurethane onto the floor.