About Guelph Cabinet Painting

A Cabinet Painting Company For Guelph And Wellington County

Guelph Cabinet Painting paints, sprays and refinishes kitchen cabinets, islands, vanities and built-ins across Guelph, Rockwood, Fergus, Elora, Aberfoyle and Puslinch. We carry full insurance on every job. Our only trade is cabinet painting, so a visit centres on your kitchen and its doors rather than on painting in general.

The houses dictate the work. A hand-built kitchen in a Ward limestone house, golden oak in Kortright Hills, a melamine galley on Gordon Street and factory-white shaker in Westminster Woods each call for its own primer, its own amount of prep and now and then a different answer altogether. Telling them apart before writing the quote is most of the work.

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.

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.