Painting Cabinets
Starting today painting kitchen cabinets, in Antioch IL. Using 94 dollar Sherwin-Williams Emerald paint! I can't wait to try it. All hardware and faces are taken off and finishing up sanding now. Most likely get cabinet frames painted before the end of the day. Finishing the 2nd coat tomorrow and painting the faces. Jobs like these are the reason I'm in this business. All about the finishing.
Painting Cabinets
Day 2
Today we put the 2nd coat on. We didn't have to reinstall the doors. The owners are doing that. They helped us out quite a bit on this job. They did half the prep work and pretty much half the painting. The price was lowered almost $300 due to their help. They also painted the island for us which was very nice of them. Very active people, husband a finish carpenter and wife just retired. Anyways as far as I could see the kitchen was starting to look very nice. There help was appreciated but it would of been nice to see the final step in refinishing the cabinets. Here are a few pictures of the painted doors.
I think the paint would of went on a lot better with a smaller spray tip or lower material tip. This paint definitely sprayed very well. I'm not a 100% convinced it's worth $94 a gallon but vary good paint just the same.
Inside on the frames we only did one coat. I think it didn't need a 2nd. 1 coat and some touch up was plenty. The only thing I didn't like or agree with is the employee at Sherwin Williams told our client, "she should only need to lightly sand the finished wood before painting. Now please tell me if I'm wrong. I was always taught that the finish needs to be removed before re-staining or painting. Now, I am sure this is true for staining, but I'm not 100% on painting. When I work with wood, especially Oak, I use stain myself. I would think you would have to at lease use a separate primer before painting. (Leave a commit below and let me know what you would have done.) At the customers request, we lightly sanded the doors and covers and then painted. Unfortunately this is as far as I got to see in this project. I might be coming back to help with their deck, and I can get some pictures of the finished kitchen then. Here are the last of the pictures right before we were done there. Not bad for a total of 10 hours time.
Comment and tell me, if you were going to paint or have painted stained and finished cabinets. Would you want the varnish removed or not?
ReplyDeleteWhen I was looking into this for our cabinets I heard you only needed to lightly sand the surface prior to painting. I think this had to do with the quality and type of paint you were suppose to use too though.
ReplyDeleteHi, thanks for your feedback. The reason why I'm for removing as much varnish as possible is, polyurethane, lacquer, varnish, shellac whatever your finish may be. There main purpose is to protect the wood. This would mean to prevent the wood from staining or coming discolored. So I would think that even scratched surface would try to reject paint. Materials working against each other would seem to affect the life of the paint. it seems a lot of people at least recommend a deglosser. You could be right though, having the right paint makes a big difference. Hopefully for the price of the paint that wouldn't be a problem. I am more of a craftsman worker. I like to pay attention to detail and take time to do the best I can. I am learning everyday. I guess really in the end, the main goal is that the customer is happy with the job.
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