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Posted by kendyskitchen (My Page) on Tue, Aug 18, 09 at 11:57
| Hi everyone! I am hoping you can help me. I am getting conflicting answers from everywhere about painting and glazing my cabinets.
About ten years ago, we painted our kitchen cabinets (two layers of primer to cover hunter green and two coats of high gloss enamel). If anyone is concerned how paint will hold up on cabinets, try doing that. The paint finish is tough as nails. I know this because I am trying to sand them and am not having any luck taking down the shine.
Here is the conflict, I was told at HD that I cannot glaze on a glossy finish and that I need to paint a with flat, then glaze and poly. Then SW said I can glaze on the enamel. Has anyone done this?
Please let me know what you think. Will the flat paint go on okay over the enamel or do I need to sand? Should I just use a deglosser? I tried sanding using a really rough sandpaper and I am just hurting the cabinets (I think).
Thank you in advance. |
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RE: Painting Kitchen Cabinets
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| If you use a bonding primer you just need to light scuff-sand the glossy surface and clean well. Let the primer do the work in place of all that elbow grease. I don't do the faux finish thing so I don't know a whole lot about glaze and stuff but I'm pretty sure that you don't want a flat finish on the cabinets - for multiple reasons, the glazing aspect just being one. I would think if you get the right base coat of paint on there and use the right, quality product for the glazing portion, there would be no need for a poly coat. I read all the steps in your post and my initial thoughts were that it was sounding a lot more convoluted and involved then maybe it really needs to be. Hopefully someone else can comment and clue us both in on what's the right thing to do. |
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| Hardly ever will you get good advice about anything from Home Depot. I do not do faux either, but you do not want to apply glaze over flat paint. You can't move it around on a flat paint....it's a dead flat chalky surface. The glaze will just sink into the paint film and die. I don't think the glaze itself is durable enough on its own so you will probably need to poly over it to protect it. Try some medium grit sanding sponges on the cabinets. |
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| That HD guy is all wet behind the ears. Listen to paintguy. I repainted my cabs over a glossy finish and glazed. I lightly sanded, then gave up and used deglosser. My finish was tough as nails too but the deglosser was great. Next I primed and painted with a BM Satin Impervo which is a smooth slightly glossy finish. The glaze sits on top of the finish and needs polycoated to make it washable. Don't omit that step. Absolutely never try glazing over flat. Paintguy is right. |
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| Thanks so much for the responses. And, yes, it sounded convoluted to me, too. The articles and posts online made it sound like everyone just slapped the glaze on the existing paint and poof, it is done. That is why I asked SW and HD. I will go for the satin finish and poly. I see lots of posts about the BM Impervo. I will check into that now. Thank you guys, you are wonderful! |
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