Thank you very much for this well presented tutorial. It is a door opener for more great ideas for my customers. Ill order some powder glaze today to get going on it. Great job
I am so happy to find your Chanel! Thank you for sharing your love of general poly, I am going to give it a go! I also refinish cabinets and love working with Bin shellac as well. I’ve been looking for a faster drying product so I’m excited to try GF. Thanks!
Question: Do customers really know what they are asking for when they say they want to transform their kitchen cabinets to this type of finish? Painting fads seem to come and go pretty quickly these days. How do you deal with a customer who is not happy with the results? Like your explanation of product and application.
Sammy Elliott clients usually don’t know the difference of glazed vs distressed. Regardless samples have to be made. Approval of base color and glaze color, client signs off on them. Heavily glazed pieces like this are usually just a focal point like a door or a builtin, however we have done a whole kitchen in this style and the clients were very happy with them. It’s important to note that each piece will vary as it’s not a machine printing the glaze on, each piece is hand applied/glazed so there is variation. Make sure to put that upfront in your contract
Hi Michael, can you provide the exact finishing procedure you used? You said you primed before applying the tinted Enduro Poly, what primer did you use? and how do you get the Enduro Poly to be tinted to a color? (I didn't know you could do that). And what grit(s) are you sanding with in between each coat of primer and color? thank you!
Carl, sanded with 240 primed with Bin Shellac and sanded with 240-320 in between I believe. As for getting the enduro tinted, yep can be tinted to just about anything but deep base colors can be a problem
@@MichaelCraine it was a glaze that home depo or lowes had, I have some oak stained cabinets I painted with sherlim Williams oil paint they are drying now, I sprayed them with my airless bc I cant get the hang of my HV sprayer. I want to glaze these to look like yours, you called "heavy glazed look" just not as heavy, I'm in Texas would any product at a big box store work? Also I have a cabinet that's MDF and pealing plastic like coating, what would you apply on the raw areas to leave out the surface to refinish I was thinking car bondo? Thanks for replying and it's ok if your not able to answer my long comment, hope to see more content you could be the next "idaho painter" (awsome youtuber that teaches via video how he runs his successful painting bussiness) like him but for cabinetry.
d al airless works just fine as well. Sounds like you picked up a wet glaze and that takes some practice to get the look you want to achieve, you will not get it on the first try. If you are limited to wet glaze I would make up a sample door and practice. Might try Benjaminmoore Alkyd glaze, it’s oil so keep thinner and rags handy when doing it. As it’s oil, it’s also going to have a longer open time (dries slower) so you can play with it to get the look you want. It will take practice. As for the Thermafoil doors. Honestly just look into buying new doors. Once the plastic starts peeling it will all come off eventually and they are just garbage. Most likely this will happen when you try to paint them. Raw Doors are cheap and you already know you can paint them
Denise Ramos i did not on this project. Spraying a clear before glazing helps with open time with regular glazed, but did not feel it was needed on this door
Yes I have , you just need the correct tip, need to move fast and practice. Verticals will be the toughest to get down but once you do you are good to go. Make sure you are spraying at correct wet mills when laying flat etc
i sprayed last week general finishes water based high performance satin poly on some cabintes with an airless graco 490 using a 308 lp tip and came out beautifull no runs im not the gratest finisher yet but working my way up by learning from the best like Michael and help a little if i can
Pear Tree Refinishers nope we use a few different glazed regularly. Benjamin Moore acrylic, General Finishes, all depends on what the project is and the availability of the glaze for me. I do like the looks we achieve with the powder glaze and its ease of use though. I’d rather use it than pinstripe 50 doors
Lori Otto I don’t know the chemistry behind it, I just purchase it. Valspar Zenith powderglaze, renner, ML Campbell, milesi all make powder glazes or “breakaway glaze”
Thank you for reaching out, the only thing I could find is on amazon, the valspar zenith powderglaze I used in the video was Vandyke brown, however here is a link to one that’s black. I sprayed however it says you can apply with a rag as well. I don’t think there would be an issue if you lightly brushed it on either www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07DLN34BB/ref=psdcmw_6809824011_t1_B07DLHPDMC
VintageFurniture Revivals Delna I’m slightly confused from the autocorrect on your last comment. I know quite a few people that brush and roll cabinets, however if you are trying to not have brush marks, you will have to spray. As for the powder glaze moving around it may a bit, as you can take it off with a scotch brite pad and wipe it off with water you will have to be very careful. But it must be clear coated. You might look around for a compressor and a cheap HVLP gun to spray it on. There are people here in the states that use that and a $30 hvlp gun for their clear coats.