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With the fresh sealer

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!

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.

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.

Can you undo it?

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?

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

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

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.

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

Looks amazing!

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

No one ever comes back and posts their failures.

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

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 :)

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

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

Pic today

And where the painters dripped white paint 🤦🏻‍♀️

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

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!

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??? 🤞

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

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

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

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.

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. :)

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!

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!