A spray gun lays hard enamel onto cabinet doors in thin, even passes that a brush cannot match, leaving a factory-smooth surface with no ridges, stroke marks or drips where grease can gather or chips can start.
Doors from London kitchens travel to the booth while their boxes get sprayed in place from Byron to Dorchester. The method is the same one used on a kitchen that arrives new from a factory, which is why a sprayed cabinet painting job is the one that still looks right in ten years. The oak cabinet painting page explains the extra grain work that sprayed oak needs.
Brushed Cabinet Painting Leaves Ridges That Fail First
A brush leaves ridges. On a door those ridges hold grease, show under every light in the kitchen, and are the thinnest, weakest points in the film, so chips start along them. Rolled paint leaves a stipple that does the same and fails the same way. Cabinet spray painting lays the enamel down in a mist that flows together and levels into one flat skin before it sets.
The sprayed film is also thinner and more even. One heavy brushed coat remains soft underneath for weeks and takes a fingernail dent. Three light sprayed coats, with a quick sanding separating each, cure all the way through into a shell harder than the wall paint around them.
Doors Travel To The Booth While Boxes Get Cabinet Painting In Place
Once labelled and removed, the doors and drawer fronts head to a filtered, heated spray booth. Booth air is clean, its temperature holds steady and its humidity is managed, which matters in a London July when the outdoor humidity slows a waterborne finish and can cloud it. Each door is sprayed flat, flipped when dry, and stacked on racks to harden, which is the part of cabinet painting a kitchen never sees.
Boxes cannot leave. The kitchen is sealed off with plastic from floor to ceiling, the counters and appliances are wrapped, the range hood runs, and the frames and end panels receive the same fine sprayed coats. The plastic comes down at the end of the day. Cabinet spray painting on site is dusty for one day and clean the next.
Cabinet Painting Uses Two-Part Polyurethane Or Waterborne Enamel, Chosen For The Kitchen
Two product families do most of the cabinet spray painting work. Waterborne alkyd enamels brush and spray well, cure to a hard satin or semi-gloss, can be used normally after roughly seven days, and are fully hard after thirty. Two-part polyurethane, the paint-plus-hardener system factories use, is spray-only, hardens overnight, and outlasts every other cabinet painting product against chemicals and wear.
The cabinet painting quote names which system goes on. A busy family kitchen in Sunningdale or a rental in Old North gets the two-part system. A lightly used kitchen with a colour matched from a paint deck can use the waterborne enamel. Either way, the cure time is on the care sheet.
Cabinet Spray Painting Cure Times Set The Rules For The First Two Weeks
Dry is not cured, and every care sheet should say so. A door that feels dry within an hour is still soft inside for days, and a heavy pot lid or a wet cloth left on it will leave a mark. Cabinet painting done with a waterborne enamel wants gentle use for two weeks. Two-part polyurethane is ready in a day or two. Neither wants an abrasive pad or a kitchen degreaser on it for the first month, and the care sheet says so plainly.
Ask About Cabinet Spray Painting Anywhere In London
If a brushed cabinet painting job has already failed or the doors show every stroke, cabinet spray painting can usually go over it once the old film is sanded flat. send a photo or call +1 (226) 271-3465 and we will say what can be saved. The London Cabinet Painting home page lists every cabinet painting service the booth and the on-site rig cover.
Cabinet Spray Painting Questions
Can brushed cabinets be sprayed over?
Usually, once the old film is sanded flat. If a brushed job has failed or the doors show every stroke, the surface is levelled, primed and sprayed. Send a photo of the worst door and we will say what can be saved and what cannot.
Which topcoat is used for spraying?
Two product families do most of the work. Waterborne alkyd enamel is usable after about seven days and fully hard after thirty. Two-part polyurethane is spray-only and hardens overnight. The quote names which system goes on, and the care sheet lists the cure times.
Does spraying make a mess in the house?
The kitchen is sealed with plastic from floor to ceiling, counters and appliances are wrapped, and the range hood runs. Spraying on site is dusty for one day and clean the next. Most of the work happens at the booth, away from the house.