About Guelph Cabinet Painting

The Finish Is Decided On The First Day, Not The Last

A cabinet painting job that fails nearly always failed on the first day. Grease under the primer, a primer wrong for the material, one thick brushed coat, or a kitchen thrown back into hard use before the enamel cured account for almost every peeling door we get asked about. So the first day goes to degreasing and labelling, and no paint leaves the van.

From there the routine holds in every kitchen: sanding to a dull surface, shellac primer over oak and cherry, bonding primer over melamine, laminate and thermofoil, standard primer over maple and painted MDF, then two or three light sprayed coats of waterborne alkyd enamel or 2K polyurethane, each sanded before the next. Doors get sprayed at the booth; boxes get sprayed inside the kitchen under sealed poly. None of that is a badge. It is the habit that decides whether the cutlery drawer still looks new in ten years, and the service pages describe how it applies to each kind of job.

Every Cabinet Painting Quote Names The Doors, The Prep And The Products

A quote reading "paint the kitchen" beside a single figure compares with nothing. Ours itemizes the doors and drawers, the material, the degreasing and sanding, any grain fill or peel removal, the primer and topcoat by name, the coat count, hardware work and the price, with the island, the vanity or the built-ins each on their own line. Bring us another quote and we will price the identical scope so both can be read together, and if ours comes out higher you will see exactly where.

Market ranges appear on the kitchen cabinet painting page, and they are market ranges rather than our prices. The written quote is what applies, and it holds once the job starts.

What We Say Even When It Costs Us The Job

We will tell you when thermofoil is peeling and paint will not save it, so the door gets stripped or swapped. We will tell you when a walnut kitchen deserves refinishing over paint, and send you to the cabinet refinishing page. We will tell you when a swollen sink base rules out both paint and refacing. We will tell you that old paint in a century home may hold lead and gets tested before any sanding, as the century home page explains, and we will never call a kitchen lead-safe on a guess. A cabinet painting company willing to paint anything it is handed is not the one to let loose on your kitchen.

Cabinet Painting Across Guelph And The Towns Around It

Our work covers the entire city, from the century streets downtown and in St. George's Park and Exhibition Park, through the post-war bungalows of Waverley and Onward Willow, to the 1990s and 2000s subdivisions of Kortright Hills, Pineridge and Clairfields and the newest streets of the South End and Grange Hill East. Outside the city we cover Rockwood, Eden Mills and Ariss, Aberfoyle, Morriston and Arkell, and Fergus and Elora to the north. Two-tone islands, described on the two-tone page, come up most weeks.