How To Paint Behind Your Toilet
A lot of people ask how to paint behind your toilet? And in this blog, I’m going to show you the best way to paint behind your toilet.
My name is Paul , I’m from Trusted House Painter, and there are two ways to paint behind your toilet.
First, you can either remove the tank completely if your water tank to your toilet is up against the wall. It will be more challenging and you’re going to have some issues, but you most likely will have to remove it to paint behind the tank.
But if it’s like most tanks where there’s a space behind it, then you don’t need to remove it. And i’m going to show you some tools that you can use to do it properly.
Why Should You Paint Behind Your Toilet?
So the first thing I want to tell you, as with most painting projects, you want to do good preparation on the walls. This helps make sure your paint coating lasts.
This toilet tank holds water and it can sweat on the outside of the tank. Most of these tanks sweat and therefore there’s often moisture behind the toilet. So first thing you want to do is make sure you clean the behind the toilet. Clean the bathroom walls before you paint. There’s a lot of grime, dust a lot of debris that gets caught behind there.
Plus, a lot of painters don’t paint behind the toilet so it’s usually not done right.
The first step is cleaning behind your toilet.
The second tip is to remove the lid – and when you remove the lid it gives you that much more access to paint. I made a YouTube short video that helps you see why you should remove the toilet lid when painting.
So it’s pretty simple, you just take off the porcelain lid of the toilet tank and place it in a safe place. Now keep in mind, it is porcelain and it can break, so gently take it off and gently place it somewhere that it’s not going to break.
Preparation For Painting Behind Your Toilet
Another trick you want to think about is how to protect your toilet. What some painters do to protect the toilet is they use a big black plastic garbage bag, and you can wrap it over top of it and tape it up, and that helps you protect the toilet.
Other painters use old bed sheets instead of a garbage bag – or other plastic. Same thing – you can wrap the old bed sheet around the tank. You can use a canvas drop sheet that many painters use and wrap it around the toilet. You can tighten it up, tape it up, therefore allowing you to get behind the toilet.
However, most porcelain tanks are pretty easy to clean, but for best practices you want to protect the toilet.
Best Tools For Painting Behind Your Toilet
Now, after you’ve cleaned the toilet and you’ve sanded the walls and prepped the walls there’s a little thing that we use as painters, and it’s called a whiz roller, what I call a Johnny on the spot roller.
Whiz rollers come in all different shapes and sizes, and they’re good for all sorts of different applications, and in this video, I’m going to show you that there are different widths different girths of rollers that you can use for any specific application.
Generally speaking, for toilets there’s not a lot of room behind it so what I like to use is these what I call mohair or “velour rollers”. They’re like millimeter thick, they don’t hold a lot of paint but they do the job.
You can actually get in behind the toilet, and use a roller to roll in behind the toilet. When you’re painting you can get from all sides and sometimes it’s a little bit stiff, but most of the time it does fit these rollers.
They’re called whiz rollers; they come in different lengths, shorties and long ones, so you can use whichever one you want, and you can buy them at any store. They come in packs of one these rollers packs of two or even packs of 12 or whatever you want they’re really handy that’s why I call them “Johnny’s“.
So what you want to do, is just roll behind the toilet using the stick to get as far as you can. And once you’re done painting it, you’ve got to remember to let it dry properly and let it cure before you put a second coat.
Bathrooms are what you know as wet rooms and ‘wet rooms’ because of showers and toilets have high moisture content so it’s really important that you let your paint dry before you put a second coat on the walls.
This video helps you understand how you can paint behind the toilet, the tools you need to use and some tips to help you along the way. But the secret to a lasting paint coating is ventilation.
The Secret To A Lasting Paint Coating – Ventilation
And the last tip that I’m going to give you regarding painting behind your toilet, which is not rocket science, but any true professional painter will tell you the truth that you always use a rag when painting.
Have a wet rag on hand because it helps when paint hits the floor. It helps if you hit the porcelain tank. A rag to a painter is like a goal post to a hockey goalie – it’s your best friend.
My name is Paul, I’m the founder of Trusted House Painter, and if you’ve got any questions you can feel free to leave a comment. Whether you live in Oakville MO, North Shore Vancouver BC or a small town like Gilmer Texas Trusted House Painter will guide you through the process of experiencing a perfect painting project. A free service to help you paint your home.
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