help! painting bathroom tiles!?!?

[aquilotta]

Hi folks! urgent query addressed to your know-how...
Bathroom tiles. Ugly grey. Covering ENTIRE bathroom walls, floor to ceiling.
Brilliant idea: paint...

Ronseal Tile Primer brought across from the UK by a friend who came to stay for Christmas.
Tile Primer applied.
Bathroom paint applied OVER tile primer.
Bathroom paint turns out to have all the covering power of, say, milk.
AND occasionally randomly removes the tile primer under it with random strokes of the paint brush.

Bathroom + Tile Primer + one coat bathroom paint... STILL looks as if merely washed over with wimpish coat of tile primer. Awful.

*WAIL* ....!!!!! What can /must I do to make it look GOOD????? (*AND* to stick!!!)

[buildersmate]

I think one is supposed to overpaint it with an oil-based gloss finish. Is that what you used to overpaint?
Rub down with glasspaper and start again?
http://www.international-paints.co.uk/details. php?productid=130&primerprep=1&surfaceid=51

[theshedman]

Hi aquilotta, personally I would not paint over bathroom tiles as on the occasions I have seen it done the finish is never very good. Unless your preparation is very good it will start to come off after a very short period. If you have to do it, following the link that buildersmate has provided will help greatly.

[CSG2306]

Hi Aquilotta,

From past experiance you will never in a million years obtain a good finish by painting bathroom tiles.

I was a maintenance engineer for over 40 years and to save money I was asked on many occasions to paint the bathroom tiles. I have tried everything on the market and never ever got a good finish.

come back to reality and accept this fact,

Sorry if I have been a fly in the ointment but the truth always tends to hurt.

Regards

CSG2306