DIY bathroom disaster-wtf do we do?

[MrsBobDylan]

DH and I failed to spot our idea to spray a row of tiles in our bathroom a vivid green was a fantastically shit idea. We are idiots.

Ds12 came home from a school trip yesterday and observed that it looks like the Hulk has thrown up in there.

Everywhere has a fine mist of sickly green.

How cheaply could we get a new bathroom? It is a small room and we would be happy with just the basics.

Please be nice, I know none of this makes any sense. I promise that in the rest of our lives we are fully functioning, useful, sensible people.

Thank you @NewName54321 - he really is brilliant, we are very lucky, especially considering his dubious parentage.

On the up side, I think I may have secured myself a new bathroom!! We will have to do one of those interest-free buy now, pay later deals but DH was very against it.

I have just allowed myself a little laugh at the idea of a 'Hulk line' in the bathroom.

For only £5 from B&Q you can get this rainbow glitter spray paint and finish the room off.

www.diy.com/departments/rust-oleum-glitter-rainbow-gloss-glitter-spray-paint-150-ml/1726736_BQ.prd

Bathroom stick on tiles!! Cover the mistakes!!! I made the mistake of painting mine years ago.. took me about 3 months to scrap the bastard stuff off... I actually cried at one point in pity at myself.

@thesunhasgothishatontoday hmmmmm...I could wait it out I suppose.

I think we will try a paint to cover up, if only to save our embarrassment at one day having to let someone else see it.

What the fuck were we thinking? I don't even like the colour. No one could.

Sharing those photos demonstrates a high level of dedication to comedy community spirit.

Tell everyone it's farrow and ball, they probably have some called fungal tiles and gangrenous floor, you'll just need to paint your ceiling in f&b smoked haddock yellow to complete the designer look.

It looks like the shade of green people get to paint fences and stables to fit in with planning regulations, you could set a trend for rural themed bathrooms.

It will paint over, but it would be much better if you accessorised with brown and mustard and posted more pics.

Sorry OP have no useful advice to give but I just wanted to say thank you as I have a really horrible en suite shower room which remains grotty whatever I do to it. Don't have money to replace it right now so stuck with it BUT at least it doesnt have a badly painted green line round it so thanks for making it look better

If I had put Kermit in a food blender for crimes of cross-species dating, and then painted it on the bathroom wall...I might sober up and decide to use a really good primer paint to cover it up (sand it down first if Kermit is still blobby), and then use International tile paint for the makeover. Good luck!

Farrow & Ball 'Gangrenous fungal' really captures the essence @TrainspottingWelsh

It is all Orla Kiely's fault...I bought some of her towels in TK Maxx 'Cyclamen in chalky green' and thought I'd use them as inspiration for a bathroom makeover. Then it is ds10's fault for choosing Plastikote in a fungal shade for his bedroom shelves. Then it is my fault for wondering if we could spray the tiles with it. And lastly (and also mostly) it is DH's fault for doing a shit job.

The photos remind me of the loos in the cellar of my boarding school which had last been decorated in 1967.

I always blame the previous owners for any major mess ups. I’ve been here 15 years and all mess ups are mine 😂😂

If the walls and floor look like that, what the hell does your husband look like?! Is he not splattered and looking like he has some rare rainforest plague too?

I was convinced YABU, until I saw the photos.

On the up side, I think I may have secured myself a new bathroom!! We will have to do one of those interest-free buy now, pay later deals but DH was very against it.

Ooh Christ, that sounds expensive. Hiring in plumbers and tilers and sourcing the suite yourself will cost far, far less than going to a shop (although you are then doing it a bit at a time).

If you decide to DIY it, you might just:

1. Paint all the tiles, and the walls with a brush (and the right paint), not a spray can. Blue and white are nice in bathrooms. Green, less so.

1. Get a nicer floor. I really like click LVT in bathrooms. Put an underlay underneath and leave a 5ml gap around the edges for LVT expansion (covered by the skirting boards you will need because of the way that lino has been laid). If it's leaked a lot you will probably need to replace some of the chipboard below.

I would think you could do the above for about £300.

Now you mention it, DH may be a shade fungal in colouring. I think his generally depressed demeanour means he is also grey, which, I suspect, is acting as a cover up.

The floor is another irritating issue - it is one of those adapted showers so the beams underneath have been changed to channel the water to go into an ineffective and easily blocked pump drain. The flooring is water tight (or theoretically so) which means we would have to replace like for like.

Thank you for all the incredulous horror expressed on this thread, it has kept me going. Less so DH, since I promised I would keep it a secret and he feels he has become a 'digital laughing stock' via MN.

DH just told me he has been getting green Plastikote bogies since he did it. Unsurprisingly, a toy mask didn't protect his airways.

This is amazing

Do you have a scraper like this?

www.toolstation.com/window-scraper/p53477?utm_source=googleshopping&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=googleshoppingfeed&gclid=Cj0KCQiAkKnyBRDwARIsALtxe7iuVfIeobafQMSx2lKtbu3J3cfEBitizStVPchLETdlEER5gHMvqOYaAnIOEALw_wcB

I'd like to say it's not that bad.....but

Oh OP I’m sorry you have a hulked bathroom (and DH) but you’ve cheered me up no end. After water coming through the ceiling yesterday I came on here to look for a good stain blocker recommendation and stumbled across your thread. I know it’s of zero comfort to you at this point but you really have lifted my spirits 😂

This thread is one of those gems on MN. I'm so glad I clicked on it .

I second (or third) peelaway paint remover. A bit of a faff, but far better than scraping. Although it sounds like you'd still hate your bathroom.

I think we will try some paint peeler today. I worry if we try to paint over it, the green might keep coming through.

Poor DH - the PlastiKote has broken him and now he will have to start with paint stripper. I don't think his lungs can cope with any further chemical ingress.

This thread is brilliant thank you OP

wow! Green paint AND spray paint , that’s a mistake you have saved anyone making again. You shall be commended

Oh the joys of it! My DH painted our basement games-/guest room „forest green“ once. It turned into the same green tone as yours. We cursed through numerous buckets of white paint, trying to get rid of it. Nobody told us back then, to cover it with grey first and with white afterwards.
I find green colors in general always quite tricky to get right. Especially kids can be very blunt sometimes.
I got green curtains as a compromise for DS/DD shared room and the first thing DS said was : „The curtains look like snot.“

I would sand the green paint so the new paint adheres to it and paint a couple of coats of tile paint on the whole lot. We used tile paint on our bathroom and it was ok and lasted reasonably well. Then fit a new vinyl floor

So, I spent an hour in B&Q getting a quote for a whole new bathroom. The interest free loan doesn't cover fitting and flooring and it seems pointless getting rid of a serviceable bathroom just because some fucker sprayed it green.

Here is what we'll do:

1. Tile over the existing tiles.
2. Spend our money on a poured vinyl floor which doesn't look like Hulk vomit.
3. Never, ever, never use a spray can of bile green again.