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f/u question - could I PAINT the tile?
I really thought I would be able to rip down that wall o' tile and paint a smooth surface, I'm bummed to hear that's not the case.
Sooo another option - could I clean, prime, and paint the tile instead? This would be a relatively quick fix to get rid of the hideous, dated tiles.
But is that possible? Especially in a kitchen where it needs to be frequently clean/wiped down?
Re: f/u question - could I PAINT the tile?
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I'm pretty sure you'd have to sand the crap out of the tile...
Also, just rip it down, even if you have to go to the sheetrock, you can re-do that pretty cheaply.
Reglazing. I've never done it, but I've seen in on lots of home improvement shows.
I'd just take it off and put on new tiles. Actually, I'd pay to have it done with the counters. But that's because it sounds like a nightmare to me. And that's why I still have the counters from when our house was built in 1963 in our house.
How helpful am I?
It would be a lot less work, that's for sure. I agree with Jess, it can't hurt to try!
Here's a how-to site I found.
If you decide to tear it out, we did that. We had these nasty beige tiles from decades ago in our kitchen that wouldn't come clean so we just tore them off.
The demo is the easy/fun part. Then we just put up new dry wall. We are big diy-ers but if you wanted to just have a handyman do the dry wall that would still be pretty cheap.