painting over terrazzo in the bathroom

[barned01]

Hi guys, i am up to doing something with the bathroom in our home but don't really know where to start.
it is a 60's style bathroom and has pink terrazzo floors with black and white stone.
I definitely don't wish to keep it despite the feeling that everyone says that retro is coming back.
So that leaves working out what to do with it.
Now i also have pink wall tiles so this might get tricky.
The terrazzo curls up along the edges about 8 cm's to the tiles.
I first thought that i could tile straight over the terrazzo, but i know that the pipework underground would bug me for not replacing that first and i would have to coordinate with replacing the wall tiles at the same time to remove the curve in the terrazzo.
So that leaves me the option of paining over it.
Is it possible to paint over the terrazzo, especially given it is a wet area and will be under the abuse of a shower 3 to 4 times a day, possibly more?
I want to make it white, it needs to be easy to clean and not too slippery considering the water that will get on the ground.
Am i dreaming and the only way i am going to get rid of it properly is to gut the whole bathroom and start again (which is way out of my price range)?
cheers
Damien

[stan250]

Hi guys, i am up to doing something with the bathroom in our home but don't really know where to start.
it is a 60's style bathroom and has pink terrazzo floors with black and white stone.
I definitely don't wish to keep it despite the feeling that everyone says that retro is coming back.
So that leaves working out what to do with it.
Now i also have pink wall tiles so this might get tricky.
The terrazzo curls up along the edges about 8 cm's to the tiles.
I first thought that i could tile straight over the terrazzo, but i know that the pipework underground would bug me for not replacing that first and i would have to coordinate with replacing the wall tiles at the same time to remove the curve in the terrazzo.
So that leaves me the option of paining over it.
Is it possible to paint over the terrazzo, especially given it is a wet area and will be under the abuse of a shower 3 to 4 times a day, possibly more?
I want to make it white, it needs to be easy to clean and not too slippery considering the water that will get on the ground.
Am i dreaming and the only way i am going to get rid of it properly is to gut the whole bathroom and start again (which is way out of my price range)?
cheers
Damien

I think that any painting option for floor tiles is, at best, only going to be relatively temporary given that they are going to get constantly wet etc.
Having said that, if you are desperate to cheer the thing up for a while you might consider using the White Knight brand Tile Primer (ordinary primers will not work) and then the Tile Paint by the same people which comes in a range of colours and your local stockist should have their colour card ( in fact you can have more or less any colour you like because the store uses their Dulux colour mixer for the White Knight colours- so any Dulux colur would work too)..

I dont know if these are meant for wall tiles only or how they will stand up to a wet floor area but you could ask at your local stockist for advice or better still, ring White Knight technical dept on: 131 686

Final tip, to make them look a bit less painted, grout the tiles afterwards (ask White Knight if the grout will stick to the paint) otherwise they really will look very painted without the grout. Oh and if you are able to spray them on, do so because they look dreadful brushed (I know because the previous owner of my house did just that- yuk).
good luck. maybe you could just wait for pink bathrooms to come back into fashion...:)(

[stan250]

White Knight also do a 'grout' pen, apparently

[Ronaldo451]

Saw an ad on the TV for a mob that respray all the old enamel and porcelain fixtures in bathrooms ' for less than 1/3 the cost of replacing'.

Their demo was a bottle green enamel bath and freestanding sink with pink wall tiles and a yellow/cream shower recess. All was resprayed in a gloss white - looked great when it was shown as the 'after' shot. Their spiel stated it did not matter if enamel waschipped, stained or damaged as their process repaired as it was applied.

Has the advantage of being quick, no plumbing changes but not sure what the actual dollars would work out to be.

[Calamaty Jane]

Yes I agree that I would get the people in that respray baths and tiles, a friend used them once and it came up beautiful, sorry cant think of the names, but look through the yellow pages under bathroom renovatations :)