Kitchen tiles + gloss paint. Help!

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We can’t afford to do up our kitchen for a good while yet, so encouraged by some of the posts I read on here we painted our kitchen tiles using gloss paint (after priming with Zinsser bullseye). The tiles look great and I’m really them pleased with them, apart from a small section which is messy because I had to stop painting when my baby work up mid-sleep (and I tried to rectify once I had settled her but I obviously left it too long and messed with them too much!).

It is only about 4 tiles but they look messy and annoyingly they’re bang in the middle, so noticeable. I know for next time that it’s best to just leave well alone as they look worse than before I started messing! 🙄

What can I do?? Would it be possible to sand those 4 tiles down slightly and then gloss paint over? Would glossing over them once they’re dry without sanding just highlight the mistakes? Do I need to start all over? Questions questions

I’m using Dulux trade high gloss paint which is very forgiving (apart from when you meddle with it for too long after stopping mid way through painting...) which is why I’m wondering if I can just paint over once this first coat is dry.

I’m really hoping I’m not going to be told that I have to start the whole thing over 😱

Thank you!

Depending how thick the paint is and how different the colour is, you could try 'painting' with white spirit to smooth it out. And off that doesn't work you should be able to paint over once dry.

If it's messy in the way I think then just painting over probably won't work, but there's also no harm trying of the alternative is starting over.

I'd sand them and give them another coat. If that doesn't work you can use a Stanley scraper to remove all the paint, prime and paint those few tiles again.

Thank you both so much! The gloss paint is white, so I’m wondering if white spirit would work although I’m a bit scared to try!

I think you’re both right - I’ll start with trying another coat and can always start again if that doesn’t work. At least it’s only 4 tiles! Thanks again.