Fronts are atomised in a filtered booth, and boxes and frames take their coats on site inside sealed containment. Sprayed cabinet painting dries to a level film with none of the ridges a brush leaves across a raised panel.
The difference between sprayed and brushed cabinet painting is visible from across a kitchen, especially under the strip of pot lights every 1990s Millcroft or Alton Village kitchen has along the upper cabinets. Raking light finds brush strokes that look invisible up close.
Sprayed Cabinet Painting Levels Itself And Brushwork Records Every Pass
Enamel leaves a spray tip as a fine mist and lands as a thin even layer that flows out before it sets. A brush pushes a much heavier layer around and leaves the marks of its own bristles behind, which harden in place.
This is exactly why cabinet painting costs more than painting a wall does. Spraying needs masking, containment, filtered extraction, mixed and strained product, and a booth for the fronts. What that buys is a finish resembling factory cabinetry instead of something rolled out of a can.
Cabinet Painting Splits Between The Booth And The Kitchen Itself
Every front comes off, gets numbered and is racked for transport on the first day. In the booth the temperature, the humidity and the dust are all controlled, which is not possible inside a lived-in house no matter how carefully the plastic goes up.
The carcasses and the face frames are not going anywhere, so their coats go on indoors within sealed containment, with floor, counters, appliances and doorways all masked. Splitting cabinet painting across two locations this way is also what keeps the kitchen usable, since the shelves stay open and reachable while the fronts are gone.
Two Cabinet Painting Systems Suit Two Different Kinds Of Kitchen
Waterborne alkyd enamel sprays and levels well, comes in thousands of colours and is low in VOC content. It wants about sixteen hours between coats, seven days before normal use and roughly thirty days to reach full hardness, so it fits a kitchen that is not in a hurry.
Two-component polyurethane takes a hardener, can only be sprayed, and cures within a day, standing up to cleaning products and wear better than any one-part coating does. It is the tougher cabinet painting system and the right answer for a rental turnover, a tight closing date or a household that is hard on doors. Pot life is a few hours, so it is mixed to the batch.
Thin Coats With A Sand Between Them Last The Longest
Three thin passes outlast one heavy one every time. A thick coat skins over while the film underneath is still soft, and that is what chips at the cutlery drawer and along the pull edges a year later.
Primer gets sanded, then the first topcoat gets a light scuff, then the second goes on, and a third follows when the colour is deep or the coverage demands it. Cabinet painting this way takes longer and holds up for ten years instead of two. The kitchen cabinet painting page sets the whole sequence against a calendar.
Booking Cabinet Spray Painting For A Burlington Kitchen
Call +1 (289) 206-6890 and we will walk the kitchen and name the coating system that fits the schedule and the household. The visit is free and so is the written quote, which names the product and the coat count outright. Message us from the contact page, or go back to the home page to see how spray work fits the other cabinet painting services.
Cabinet Spray Painting Questions
How is spraying different from brushing?
Enamel leaves a spray tip as a fine mist and flows out flat before it sets. A brush pushes a heavier layer around and leaves bristle marks that harden in place. Spraying needs masking, containment, extraction and a booth, which is why it costs more.
Which coating system is used?
Waterborne alkyd enamel levels well and suits a kitchen that is not in a hurry. Two-component polyurethane cures within a day and wears better, so it suits rentals, tight closing dates and hard-working households. The visit settles which one fits.
Why spray thin coats?
Three thin passes outlast one heavy one. A thick coat skins over while the film underneath is soft, and that is what chips at the cutlery drawer and along the pull edges. We scuff between coats for the same reason.