Easy Way To Sand Kitchen Cabinets

Number or letter each door with the pencil.

Easy way to sand kitchen cabinets.

You may remember i already wrote a post on the right way to paint your kitchen cabinets otherwise known as the world s longest kitchen cabinet painting tutorial. The best tools for sanding kitchen cabinets break it down. After i published my original post the question i heard most often was is there an easier way. This video shows you exactly how i repainted my old varnished oak kitchen cabinets.

If you need to sand the grooves wrap a piece of sandpaper around a paint stirrer stick and run it down the grooves a few times. Use a wood sanding block to prevent rounding over the wood edges. The kind of doors you have will dictate your hinge choice. Since my cabinets have concealed hinges.

Dip a paintbrush into an open can of stripper. I used my ryobi orbital sander on all the flat surfaces basically anything it could reach and used the sanding blocks for the smaller harder to reach moldings and corners. Sanding literally takes hours especially if you re preparing an intricately detailed piece of woodwork for paint. Brush the stripper on the cabinet face frames and end jambs two at a time.

Apply a 4 inch strip of masking. Orbital sanders are best for bulk sanding. Remove knobs or pulls from your cabinets with a screw driver. Sanding the kitchen cabinet doors and frames is hard work but pretty straightforward.

Spread drop cloth around the cabinets. Materials step 1. Overlay see photo 2. How to sand your kitchen cabinets gather supplies and set up work area.

Liquid sandpaper works faster. Equipped with 100 grit sandpaper orbital sanders remove. Scrape the gelled finish off the. Consult your cabinet put on rubber gloves and breathing protection.

Gather your supplies before you start to make the sanding process easier. Rabbeted inset with a 3 8 in. While many claim no sanding is required when using milk paint i used this kind i lightly scuffed up the. Lightly sand the doors on all sides and faces.

All you have to do is apply it wait 15 minutes and wipe off any residue once it dry. How to sand your kitchen cabinets. The key here is to sand some of the existing finish off and roughen up the surface so the primer sticks but you don t need to get the whole finish off unless you re staining your cabinets. Unscrew the hinges to remove the doors from the cabinets.

Liquid sandpaper does the work for you in about 15 minutes. The doors you see here very common on older standard cabinets have a 3 8 in. Cabinets are best sanded when disassembled as much as possible. The absolute best way to paint kitchen cabinets.