38+ Can You Paint Tile Around A Fireplace US. When my sister had her house repainted recently, her painters painted right over her existing tile so i knew it could be done! Clean the tiles around the fireplace extremely well.
As we mentioned above, the good news is, you can paint tiles!
Measure the space around the fireplace insert where you want the tiling to go and make a template of this area on the cardboard and on a piece of backerbaord. You can use a paint thinner and a scraper if the paint is only on the tiles and not on the grout it should be easy to remove it. You cannot install tile over plaster, painted, papered, paint removed,etc., unless the 7 x 7 tiles would go immediately around all four sides of the fireplace. Then i poured some primer into the painting tray, took a deep breath, and went to.