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We bit the bullet & painted the slate.

Jessie Dee
3 år sedan

After years of contemplating stripping, staining & sealing our slate, we bit the bullet and chalk painted today.

The entire time I was second guessing whether I was destroying our floors. We love the stone, just not the colour pallet.

Two liters of Rust-Oleum chalk paint and then Diamond coat ‘Natural’ slate sealer.

Just waiting 24hrs for the sealer to dry, it will be a matte finish.

Let’s see how it looks when it dries? 🤞🏻

Edit: We chose to chalk paint then seal, as half our slate was already a natural (matte) finish & the matte sealer is lovely underfoot.

Second edit: since this is a total experiment, I’ll share issues as they come up: eg on the gloss sealed sections the sealer was taking double the time to dry. The residual puddles were oily, not sticky. So hubby went through again with the wool deck pad spreading the remaining sealer over the floors. A cheats second coat, but also hoping this isn’t indicative of any issues with the sealer adhering to the tiles (that we really should stripped). We only had a really small window when we had all the kids off-site, hence why we didn’t get the tiles stripped, we didn’t want the fumes etc. the tiles hadn’t been sealed in over 10 years, so it will be interesting to see if the chalk & sealer take well. As a family of 6 with 2 dogs; we will certainly put it to the test.

Will keep you all posted!

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  • thinkdesignlive
    3 år sedan

    Following. Please post progress pics every six months if you can. Interested to see how this works for you. And hope it does! Good luck!

    Kommentarer (32)

    • Jessie Dee
      Författare
      3 år sedan

      More pics

    • Jessie Dee
      Författare
      3 år sedan

      With the fresh sealer

    • lucky998877
      3 år sedan

      Oh boy, I see trouble in the future...but hope it lasts for a while. Looks much better than the original...but chalk paint is not made for heavy use. Good luck!

    • deegw
      3 år sedan
      Ändrades senast: 3 år sedan

      It looks great but fingers crossed for you about durability. I can totally understand why you did it, heavily variegated slate floors are really bossy.

    • Monica Scovell
      3 år sedan

      It *looks* really good and I hope It will work out for you! Looking forward to see your updates. If you have to repaint in the future, you might want to use a paint made for ceramic or concrete, as it would be much more durable.

    • Addison in VT z4a
      3 år sedan

      Can you undo it?

    • bpath
      3 år sedan

      I love our natural black slate floors and yours look great now! Do give us updates on how they hold up. Do you get snow where you are? Will road salt get onto the floor?

    • Jessie Dee
      Författare
      3 år sedan

      @bpath no snow, we are in sydney! I’d love snow!

    • Jessie Dee
      Författare
      3 år sedan

      Addison yes it can be undone. Just a stripping agent and it will come off. Nice to have options!

    • SJ McCarthy
      3 år sedan

      The issue will be adhesion. Without stripping the floors you are almost guarantying adhesion failure. I really hope you get 1-2 years out of this...but be prepared for much less.

    • madsdaly
      2 år sedan

      Hi, how did the painted floors hold up? Was it worth it? would love to know as we want to do the same thing

    • April Omel
      2 år sedan

      Looks amazing!

    • Thomas Quallity
      2 år sedan

      Would live a update. But I suspect they didn't keep their appearance long.

    • User
      2 år sedan
      Ändrades senast: 2 år sedan

      No one ever comes back and posts their failures.

    • Shoemaker
      2 år sedan

      Are you kidding?! This looks fantastic! Wow!! Great job

    • Jessie Dee
      Författare
      2 år sedan

      Hey guys! So actually it’s holding up really well. It took weeks to cure, so we have one or two little spots where we dragged a couch or chipped a piece of slate to reveal another colour, but overall we still love it.

      Re failures: absolutely happy to admit I did (almost) botch the whole thing by using the wrong sealer.
      I used initially a slate sealer thinking it would soak into both stone & chalk paint, but it was oil based. 😳🤦🏻‍♀️

      We ended up doing another 2 coats of rustoleum chalk paint then 2x coats of Annie Sloane chalk paint sealer (gloss) then finally 1x coat matte sealer. Most of the information on how to I got from watching Annie’s videos on her site (none on slate).

      I would finish by saying if you can strip the slate it’s would be ideal. Ours needed resealing so in high wear spots the paint is holding.

      Consider things like never again using a steam mop for cleaning 😭, if painters accidentally drip white on your floor how you’ll fix it (happened to us), and be prepared to wait weeks & weeks to mop (as it goes tacky until it’s fully cured).

      Otherwise we are so far happy. As one of the comments said, it’s early days, but we do have 4 kids, two dogs & hubby isn’t delicate with moving things around and it’s fine so far :)

    • Jessie Dee
      Författare
      2 år sedan

      This was October but it’s only pic I can find without stuff everywhere 🤣

    • Pauline G
      2 år sedan

      following

      thanks!

    • madsdaly
      2 år sedan

      Thanka for the update @Jessie Dee, it looks great!

    • Jessie Dee
      Författare
      2 år sedan

      Pic today

    • Jessie Dee
      Författare
      2 år sedan

      And where the painters dripped white paint 🤦🏻‍♀️

    • Anne Duke
      2 år sedan

      What an undertaking and great results so far, looking to see end of 2021 update!

    • shawnmyhre
      2 år sedan

      We have similar, very busy, bossy, multi-color slate that seems dated already although installed in 2008. Thank you for sharing your experience. I am hoping to have ours (3 rooms of it) acid etched/stripped and then stained with concrete stain or similar to a hopefully more uniform charcoal gray.Then resealed to a matte finish. But concerned it will continue to “shale off” exposing patches of the rust, tan, gold bits. Ugh! Will post before and after photos if completed!

    • shawnmyhre
      2 år sedan

      Oh, and also hoping we can figure out a way NOT to stain the grout. Maybe seal just the grout first with a small brush after stripping , then stain the tiles and then seal all of it??? 🤞

    • PRO
      Illuminate Home Staging
      förra året

      There is grout paint https://za.pinterest.com/pin/403283341625550359/

    • Elise van der Jagt
      12 månader sedan

      I’d love a recent update! also in Aus and thinking of doing this to our floors…

    • Liam N
      11 månader sedan

      Would you be able to kindly share the total cost of your painted tiles project? Thanks!

    • Jessie Dee
      Författare
      11 månader sedan

      Hi Liam, it was a while ago now but under $1k maybe about $600. however remrver we stuffed it up first time so used excess product we didn’t need to.

    • shannonvond
      8 månader sedan

      Hi. Just wondering how it's holding up. I would like to do our foyer. Four kids, four dogs... just nervous since it's the entryway. :)

    • Ian Williams
      8 månader sedan

      Also wondering how this is holding up. We would like to do this to an entire floor as well, but I’m still very curious about its longevity!

    • Kaylene Cahill
      2 månader sedan
      Ändrades senast: 2 månader sedan

      I have approached paint techs at numerous paint companies (Aust), desperately seeking a "yes" that they have a slate tile paint product that they will put their name behind. None of them has. One advised that slate has silica in it and thereby is a painting No No. I left my slate floors until last so that any other house renovations/tradies (I did a lot) would not ruin it. I wish now I'd ripped it out. Does anybody have any intel re the suitability of slate towards painting? How horrendous to go to the trouble and then have the paint lift off the tile!

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