Cabinet painting and spraying in Aurora
Cabinet painting takes every door off, preps it properly and sprays it with a hard waterborne enamel so the kitchen you own looks new. Whole-house interiors, stairwells and foyers, wood window frames and exterior trim, and cabinet refinishing are the usual Aurora jobs.
Concept imageryAurora, on the ground.
Aurora has century houses with plaster front rooms and later drywall additions in the older core, and newer subdivision housing with nine foot ceilings and builder flat paint east and north of it. Oak kitchens from the 1980s and 1990s take paint well once the grain is dealt with, and newer MDF and laminate fronts need the right bonding primer rather than more sanding. Driveways are deep and garages attached in the newer areas, while the older core has narrower drives and a step up at the back door, and the crew books full days because of the drive. The kitchen is sealed in plastic, doors are removed and sprayed in a dust-controlled setup, boxes are finished in place and everything is rehung and adjusted before the walk-through.
Where a Aurora house has a later addition, the plaster and the drywall are prepped differently and finished to the same sheen so the join does not show.
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On the quote, from the start.
- 01Every door, drawer front and hinge removed, labelled and tracked so each one goes back where it came from
- 02Degreasing with a dedicated cleaner, then sanding to a dull surface so the primer has something to grip
- 03A bonding primer suited to the cabinet material, whether wood, MDF, laminate or a previous factory finish
- 04Two sprayed coats of waterborne enamel on doors and fronts, with the boxes masked and finished to match
- 05Kitchen sealed off with plastic, counters and appliances masked, and the floor covered end to end
- 06Doors rehung, hinges adjusted, new pulls fitted if you supply them, and a touch-up visit under the [2-year] warranty
No figures published. The drivers, in order.
| Driver | What we look at |
|---|---|
| Number of doors and drawer fronts | Each piece is cleaned, sanded, primed and sprayed on both sides. Thirty fronts is a different job from sixty. |
| Door style | Raised-panel and glazed doors have more edges and profiles to sand and more places for a run to hide than a flat slab. |
| Current finish | Bare or previously painted wood primes easily. Thermofoil, high-gloss laminate and old lacquer need a specific primer and more sanding. |
| Colour and sheen | A dark colour over light cabinets, or a pure white over oak grain, can need an extra coat to cover evenly. |
Island and pantry fronts count the same as any other door. The written quote lists the door count so you can see exactly what the job covers.
Cabinet painting and spraying questions from Aurora
Can you spray cabinets in a Aurora condo?
Yes. The doors are sprayed in a sealed setup with the kitchen tented in plastic, and the boxes are brushed or sprayed depending on the room. We book the elevator and keep to the building's work hours in Aurora.
How many days is my Aurora kitchen out of use?
Usually [n] days from the doors coming off to the last hinge adjustment. You can still use the sink and stove most evenings. The written quote gives the exact schedule for your Aurora kitchen.
How do you paint the upstairs hallway wall that runs down the stairs?
With a plank between a ladder on the upper landing and an adjustable ladder on the stair, levelled and secured, and the railing padded. The crew cuts the ceiling line by hand and rolls the wall in one continuous pass so the sheen does not change halfway down. In a newer Aurora house that wall and the foyer are the two items the quote lists on their own.
Our Aurora house is plaster at the front and drywall in the addition. Will the two look the same once painted?
Yes, if the prep is matched. Plaster takes more filling and a full primer over old repairs, drywall takes less, but both end in the same two finish coats at the same sheen. Where the texture differs noticeably at the joint, the crew skims the transition so the eye does not catch it. The colour change, if there is one, is placed at a doorway rather than along the seam.