Cabinet Refinishing Process
Prepare to rejuvenate your cabinets with our expert refinishing service.
This is our standard protocol for ensuring our work is consistent job after job, customer after customer. While some "painters" grab a brush and paint away, often using plain old trim paint, then avoid the customer's calls when it chips, peels, and bubbles and suffers "bleed through" of tannins, we choose to honor our tried-and-true meticulous methodology to combat potential re-finishing failures at the source. No matter the size of your kitchen, the vastness of your home, or the neighborhood you're in, WE FOLLOW THIS PROCESS! And we only use a finish that has been developed for cabinets and vanities, as well as state of the art equipment to give the near factory finish to every door we do, for every customer we serve.
It's nice hear the compliments from our customers when they see us working in their home, but I like being complimented for doing the work they don't see!
Our steps to success-
1- Remove doors and drawers-
2- Remove hinges and hardware-labeling each location for a later seamless remounting.
3- Prepare doors and drawer fronts to transport to our studio.
4- Degrease ALL pieces with a high strength product to remove all elements of grease and grime. *
5- Wash with gentle dish soap and water.
6- vacuum system to minimize studio contamination, and maximize debris collection
7- Damp Cloth wipe down all surfaces followed by tack cloth.
8- All corners of doors cleaned with art brushes to get any remaining debris, blow off with high pressure air gun.
9- We use high quality primers (the product will depend on the material we’ll be finishing to ensure a proper bond).
10- Sand Primed finish, repeat items 6,7,8 above
11- Paint doors and drawers with Sherwin Williams Gallery Series paint utilizing an advanced, 5 stage turbine sprayer to achieve a factory like finish.
12- Using 4000 grit sandpaper, scruff painted surface, wipe, and blow finish, and repeat spray for second coat.
13- Inspect, wrap the doors for home delivery, and installation!
*Extremely heavy, greasy projects may require an additional charge.
Yes, it's the same door!
We make it easy for the homeowner!
While some companies require homeowners to totally empty the kitchen, including cabinet contents, rendering the kitchen useless for up to a week or more, we take a more consumer friendly approach. We merely ask the homeowners to remove fragile counter items, and position items inside the cabinets to allow about 4" of space from the door opening. (please remove any fragile, family heirlooms, just to be cautious).
And YES, YOU CAN USE YOUR KITCHEN DURING OUR PROCESS*
*Please note, we do ask that you not use the range on the day we apply the top finish to the cabinets to the right and left of the range (wall and base). This will help in mitigating contamination, which can lead to product failure (and neither of us would like that!)