Fronts and carcasses get degreased, sanded, filled where filling is due, primed to suit whatever lies underneath, then sprayed in a hard enamel. Kitchen cabinet painting alters a whole room and never moves a counter or a tile.
Kitchens here differ because the housing does, and cabinet painting differs with them. Site-built joinery in an Avenues brick house, golden oak up in Kawartha Heights and factory shaker in a Lily Lake build make three distinct jobs, which is why the quote carries three prices rather than one rate per opening. Heritage designation in the Avenues governs the outside of a house, never the kitchen inside it.
What A Cabinet Painting Quote Names Before Anything Is Removed
Three counts head the quote: doors, drawer fronts, carcasses. Every dollar below them attaches to one of the three. Under that sit the material found in the room, the primer picked to suit it, which family of topcoat, what sheen, how many passes and what has been left out.
Interiors carry their own line, since shelving, carcass sides and carcass backs more than double what has to be sprayed. Crown moulding, glazed fronts, plugged holes and supplied handles each get a line as well. Nothing joins the job later unless a fresh line is written for it first.
Cabinet Painting Runs In The Same Order In Every House
The order never changes, and skipping a step in it is why cheap work lifts inside a year. Fronts come away and take a number, hinges drop into bags, and a photograph of the layout means each piece finds its own opening again.
Degreasing comes next and it is the slowest part of cabinet painting. Thirty years of frying and old furniture wax leave a film no water-based cleaner shifts, so badly coated fronts need a solvent degreaser and the quote shows it. Then filling, then an even scuff all over, then whichever primer the species demands: shellac across oak and its tannin-heavy relatives, a bonding product across melamine and laminate.
Two or three topcoats close the job out, sanded lightly in between. Fronts get theirs inside the booth, far from the property, while carcasses get theirs in situ behind plastic, which is set out further under cabinet spray painting.
The Kitchen Keeps Working Through Most Of A Cabinet Painting Job
Cabinet painting normally runs two days at the property, sometimes three, and a week or two altogether with booth turnaround included. Big kitchens and deep colours stretch that, since a saturated navy or a forest green asks for a third pass.
Sink, range and refrigerator remain reachable for the whole cabinet painting job. Shelving works as open storage while the fronts are out, and the one awkward stretch is whichever day the carcasses get sprayed. A small galley clears faster still.
Dry is not cured, and cabinet painting turns on the difference. Waterborne alkyd enamel will take careful use at about the week mark, and hardens fully nearer thirty days; the two-component product is hard by the next morning. Give the drawer fronts, and the cutlery drawer especially, some patience across that opening stretch.
Cabinet Painting Prices Here Sit Below The Provincial Averages
The middle of this market is $2,200 to $4,500 for a whole kitchen. Smaller ones open nearer $1,400; a big kitchen, or one in two colours, reaches $5,000 to $7,000. A door on its own goes for about $110 to $200 locally, and bonding primer on thermofoil or laminate pushes that up.
Refacing instead of cabinet painting sits at $3,000 to $8,000, while new cabinetry opens at $15,000 and clears $35,000 in a big room. Those bands were gathered across the region. One kitchen is governed by one written quote, and that quote already allows for the drive to an address out by Lakefield or Bridgenorth.
Cabinet Painting That Fails Does So For Reasons That Are Known
Peeling has four causes: grease trapped under the primer, no sanding at all, a primer that never suited the substrate, or wall paint put on doors. Wall paint will not harden enough for a surface touched several thousand times a year.
Chips begin next to the pulls, and in the cutlery drawer, which is where every cabinet painting job is really tested. A thick film chips sooner than a thin one, which is one more argument for the gun.
A fine line at the edge of a panel in February is timber moving, not a coating failing. January averages seven below here and the heating season runs long, so solid rail-and-stile fronts draw in, then close up again across a humid July.
Have The Kitchen Cabinet Painting Priced In Writing, At No Charge
Forty minutes, no charge. Everything gets counted, the material gets identified, the worst front in the room gets a proper look, and a cabinet painting price in writing follows that can sit beside anybody else's. Call +1 (705) 230-9056, put the kitchen details through here, or return to this city's main page for everything else we take on.
Fixed Cabinetry Gets Its Cabinet Painting Where It Stands
Fronts still come away, take a number and travel to the shop just as kitchen fronts do. What remains is the carcass, its face frame and any shelf that cannot move, all sanded, primed and sprayed inside plastic sheeting with an extractor running.
Loose shelving lifts out and is coated on both faces lying flat, because a shelf done on one side alone will cup. Shelves that cannot move are coated where they are, alongside the interior, whenever the interior is on the quote.
Bookcases and wall units in the older houses around Park Street North and the Avenues are frequently site-built from clear pine or fir, so they take the same shellac primer that oak takes. The reasons for that are on the oak cabinet painting page.
Fresh Boring Comes Off A Jig Rather Than A Tape Measure
One jig fixes an identical position on every piece, so pulls hold a line down the whole run instead of wandering. Measure forty of them by tape and at least one will be out.
Boring follows once cabinet painting has fully cured, rather than preceding it, so nothing chips out at the rim and no swarf settles into wet coating. Pull length is settled at the same moment, since a long bar across a narrow drawer looks wrong in a way that no drawing reveals.
Handles may be supplied by us or bought by the owner. The count appears on the quote either way, and boring is priced per hole, in the same way the rest of the kitchen cabinet painting quote is assembled.
Kitchen Cabinet Painting Questions
What does a kitchen cabinet painting quote include?
The quote lists how many doors, drawer fronts and carcasses are in scope, the material found on site, the primer, the topcoat and the coat count. Interiors and hinge swaps are priced as separate lines, so the total can be compared.
Do the doors really have to leave the house?
Yes. Doors and drawer fronts go to a filtered booth where dust and temperature stay steady, which gives a level finish. Boxes and face frames stay put and are coated behind sealed plastic, so the room keeps working through most of the job.
How long does a kitchen take?
Most kitchens need a couple of days on site, spread across a week or two once booth turnaround is added. The first day is degreasing, numbering and removal, and nothing gets colour that day. The film dries in hours and hardens over days.