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Kitchen Cabinet Repainting: Anyone ever do it?

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  1. golf66

    golf66

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    The project is moving along and so far it is a witch. I'm washing, stripping and sanding the doors, starting with the worst ones first. Between washing, stripping, sanding, filling dings etc., it's about three hours per door. There are a lot of them that only need scuff sanding so it will balance out.

    As for paint, I am going to the dark side with 2k Centurion 2800 as there is a dealer only 45 minutes away. On a pro painting site, one guy showed a test where he applied straight lye to a cabinet door painted with 1K Centurion 2800 and on one painted with 2K Centurion 2800. The lye ate through the 1K but did nothing to the 2K. The catalyst is nasty stuff and requires a chemical respirator and Tyvek suit which I have. Catalyzed paint has a pot life of three hours so it's going to take a few days to spray, clean out the sprayer, scuff sand and apply the second coat.