HELP!! I have wooden kitchen cabinets which had a cheap coat of poly on them. After 15 years you can imagine the way they looked. So, I was told by friends that I could do this. Now I am panicing because I have them all primed and ready to go and a guy at the local Home Depot told me I will most likely have peeling problems if I am not 100% pro!!
Here is what I have done so far....sanded them all using a 120 paper to rough them up a bit. Then vaccumed the dust off and washed with soap and water then dried with a towel. Then used a tack cloth. I have painted with a water based primer (KILZ Premium) after the cabinets dried.
I have painted the faces of 2 cabinets with a latex semi-gloss expensive paint!and they look good...but the few doors I have painted now seem to be having very small areas of chips...not many...just enough to FREAK ME OUT!! :-) I think it may be for one of 2 reasons...1st, I had some drips that on the backsides...in the grooves...and they kind-of started peeling when I picked at them (the guy told me to do it!! Said to watch out for "globs and runs" that they would peel) and the 2nd is that I leaned a couple of doors against each other after 3 days of drying and the parts touching left little chips.
I figured they would have already cured and it was no big deal.I guessed wrong, huh?!
The humidity is 100% here. I plan to put a glaze over the faces of the doors when the paint has cured...antique look...and then paint over all of that with a water based semi-gloss poly.
Any help????? Thanks. I'm a total novice but was told by a "friend" that this was easy! HA!!
Kat
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