![]() Cover your tub or shower areas with a drop cloth. Make sure you protect your fixtures or any areas that meet the wall. This paint kind of reminds me of a krazy glue on steroids, it is super duper adherent and will not come off easy after it dries. Tape off the areas that you want to protect. Use the enclosed cleaner to scrub the entire surface you want to paint and make sure you do a really good job. Just an FYI, there are two different types of Rust-Oleum tile transformation finishes: the solid colour texture finish (the one I used here) and the natural stone finish.įollow the instructions correctly and I promise you that you will love staring at your newly painted tiles. Now I’m not going to lie, at first I had some hesitation to tile paint.īut after a little online research and many positive reviews (gotta love the internet), I decided to give it a try with Rust-Oleum Tile Tranformations – Solid Colour Textured Finish. So I opted for an easier solution, tile paint! And what a transformation it ended up being! I felt like it was a waste of time and money to tear down perfectly good tile due to its dated colour. The pink tiles around the tub and the shower stall where left as is. Click here to read about how my bathtub is holding up 3 years later.Or how this shower stall transformed to that?ĭuring last week’s BIG bathroom reveal, a lot of you were surprised to learn that bathroom tiles can actually be painted!Īs you may recall from my One Room Challenge, the only area I replaced the tile was on the bathroom floor. So I wrote a post about the bathtub three years later and a fix for a problem that happened with it. Update: I’ve had several readers ask how well the finish on my bathtub with Rust-Oleum Tub and Tile epoxy is doing now that we’ve been living with it for a few years. I will do this one day when I have figured out how to not use the shower for 3 days. I will use the Rust-Oleum Tub and Tile Refinishing kit again because, despite the incomplete directions, it has held up well. Then I will apply another coat or two of epoxy. Eventually, I will sand down the flaws in the epoxy until I have a smooth, somewhat green, surface. Right now, I try not to look too closely at my bathtub. We used that bathtub daily.Īs for my misguided third coat, what now? I can’t turn back time, so regret doesn’t help. But I still don’t know how we could have done it any differently. Getting everyone and everything ready for a family trip is enough work and stress without adding a major home project the same morning. ![]() It was crazy to do a project this big they day we left on vacation. In the light, you can see some of the bubble and brush lines Looking Back This one was definitely thicker and whiter, but still a lot of the green of the tub showed through. I waited the directed hour, and started the second coat. It did go on smoothly and was self-leveling, which meant no bumps or bubbles. It looked like school glue, very see-through. The first coat went on very thin and very transparent. I should have poured half of each liquid into a separate container and saved the remaining chemicals in their cans for later. Covering a green bathtub takes more than two coats of epoxy, and you can only paint two coats at a time. So, following the directions, I poured one can of liquid into the other can of liquid. The morning of, I gave it one final clean and dry, then set to work on painting.įor an epoxy, you mix two liquids together to start a chemical reaction that eventually hardens the epoxy into a nice coating. We had a few rust spots inside the bathtub, so I especially worked on those. I washed and scrubbed and cleaned and sanded. I spent a few days before painting preparing the tub. fans and open windows (this stuff has very bad fumes).an inexpensive, non-foam paint brush for each coat of epoxy.Rust-Oleum Tub and Tile Refinishing 2-part kit.The Amazon reviews had lots of helpful tips, mostly about how important it is to prep the bathtub before painting. In the meantime, I watched tons of YouTube videos, and read what I could on refinishing a bathtub. Our next family trip was coming up, so I planned to prep during the week, and paint the bathtub the morning before we left. There is no way we could live without showering for 3 days. Since our bathtub is also the only shower in our house, I knew I would need to apply it right before we left on a vacation. The epoxy takes 3 days to dry before it can get wet. I found the product on Amazon, again with great reviews, and decided to give it a try. I researched more into the Rust-Oleum Tub and Tile Refinishing kit and found tons of positive reviews on blogs. ![]() I first learned that refinishing a bathtub is possible on the blog Raising Hope. The tub matched the tile walls almost exactly.
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