Each drawer front and door is degreased, filled, scuffed, primed to suit whatever it is built from, then sprayed in a hard enamel and rehung. Cabinet painting shifts a whole kitchen while counters and backsplash stay untouched.
Kitchens here divide by the decade their street went up. A builder MDF kitchen out in Scott, a raised-panel oak set in Timberlea and a site-built run inside an Old Milton century house make three different jobs, so one rate across all of them would be wrong.
What A Cabinet Painting Quote Names Before A Door Comes Off
Every quote opens with three counts: doors, drawer fronts and boxes. Each price line hangs off one of those numbers, so nothing hides inside a lump sum.
Named next are the material, whichever primer suits it, how many coats go on, which topcoat family, what sheen and everything excluded. Interiors carry their own price because they are genuine work that not everybody wants. Handles supplied, old holes plugged, glass-front doors and crown moulding all sit on separate lines.
Kitchen Cabinet Painting Follows One Fixed Order Every Time
Cheap work lifts inside two winters because steps get skipped. Fronts and doors come away numbered, hinge sets drop into marked bags, and a photograph of the layout is taken before work starts.
Next comes degreasing, which is nothing like a quick wipe. Old wax and cooking grease build a film that water-based cleaner cannot always cut, and a Milton kitchen feeding four or five people carries more of it than most. The worst-loaded doors want a solvent degreaser, and that shows on the quote.
Then follow filling, scuffing and the right primer. Tannin in oak and cherry is blocked by shellac, melamine and laminate and intact thermofoil are gripped by a bonding primer, and MDF already painted takes an adhesion primer. Two or three sprayed topcoats finish it, with a light sand ahead of each, as described under cabinet spray painting.
The Kitchen Keeps Working Through Most Of A Cabinet Painting Job
Site time usually amounts to two or three days, and a whole cabinet painting job closes inside one to two weeks once the booth turnaround on the doors is added. A saturated navy or charcoal wants a third coat, which adds a day.
The sink, range and refrigerator stay reachable throughout, and open shelves hold everything while the doors are away. Commuter households here are out on weekdays anyway, which makes the box-spraying day easier to schedule than it sounds.
Dry is not cured. Waterborne alkyd enamel takes gentle handling at about a week and finishes hardening nearer a month out, whereas a two-component polyurethane hardens in twenty-four hours.
Cabinet Painting Prices Set Against Refacing And Replacement
Whole-kitchen cabinet painting runs $2,500 to $5,500 for most houses in this market. A small kitchen begins near $1,500, a large plan with island and butler's pantry reaches $6,000 to $9,000 or beyond, and per piece the rate sits around $130 to $250.
Fresh doors fitted to boxes already in place runs $3,000 to $10,000, while replacement cabinetry opens near $15,000 and passes $40,000 on the bigger detached plans around here. Ontario market ranges are what those are, and the only binding figure is the written cabinet painting quote.
Cabinet Painting That Fails Fails For Reasons That Are Known
Grease beneath the primer, an unsanded surface, a primer mismatched to the substrate, or wall paint on doors: peeling traces back to those. Wall paint stays too soft for a kitchen forever, and it accounts for more early failures than anything else.
Chipping begins at the cutlery drawer and alongside every pull, the spots taking heaviest handling in the room. Thick coats chip sooner than thin, one more argument for a gun. Thermofoil, melamine and laminate cabinet painting explains the third known cause, which is coating a door whose skin has already lifted.
February hairlines along a panel edge are wood on the move, not a finish giving up. Indoor humidity falls hard across a five-month heating season, panels shrink inside solid rail and stile frames, and the line closes over again by July.
The Pantry And Mudroom Date A Kitchen The Moment Cabinet Painting Ends
Builder joinery was ordered as a set. Pantry doors, laundry cupboards and mudroom lockers came in the kitchen's finish, so leaving them out of the cabinet painting makes both rooms look unfinished the week the kitchen changes.
Folding them into one booking costs far less than returning for them later, since setup, masking and product are already at the address. Once the gap in price between those two approaches is clear, most people put the laundry run and the pantry onto the kitchen quote.
Filling Old Holes Belongs To The Cabinet Painting, Not To Extras
Into the old hole goes a hardwood dowel, glued, cut flush and sanded, then filled and sanded once more so the face sits level ahead of primer. Nothing shows once the work is finished. Doors that develop a faint circle at the old hole a year later are doors where somebody used filler and no dowel.
New holes are drilled against a jig rather than measured by eye, so every pull on a run of drawers lines up. That matters most on the long banks of pot drawers standard in the kitchens built here in the 2000s and after.
Book A Free Visit And Get The Kitchen Cabinet Painting In Writing
About forty minutes is what the visit takes, and no charge attaches to it or to the written quote behind it. Doors are counted, material identified, and the resulting cabinet painting figure stands up beside anybody else's. Call +1 (289) 206-6908, send the kitchen details over or look through everything else on offer first.
Kitchen Cabinet Painting Questions
How long does a whole kitchen take?
Site time is usually two or three days, and the job closes within one to two weeks once the doors have had their turn in the booth. A deep navy or charcoal needs a third coat, which adds a day. Plan on gentle use for about a week afterward.
Will the kitchen still work during the job?
Mostly, yes. The sink, range and refrigerator stay reachable, and open shelves hold the dishes while the doors are away. The awkward stretch is the one day when face frames and boxes are sprayed in place behind plastic, with ventilation running throughout.
What does the quote list?
It counts doors, drawer fronts and boxes, then names the material, primer, topcoat family, sheen and coat count. Interiors, glass-front doors, crown moulding and hole filling sit on separate lines, so nothing hides inside one total. Two quotes only compare when they list the same things.