Cabinet Refinishing in Arlington Heights

Cabinet refinishing in Arlington Heights, including cabinets painted before

We repaint the cabinets already in your kitchen, bath or built-ins instead of replacing them. Doors and drawer fronts are taken down, labeled and kept with their own bagged hardware. Everything gets degreased, scuff-sanded and filled, then coated with a bonding primer and a cabinet-grade enamel sprayed on for an even finish. The face frames and boxes are painted in place, with the kitchen masked off.

Arlington Heights is on our regular route, up Route 53 and in on Arlington Heights Road and Northwest Highway, from downtown and the Metra station out into the neighborhoods. Where an older Arlington Heights house has cabinets someone painted years ago, there may be oil-based paint under the top coat, and latex laid straight over it will peel. We test the existing finish, and if it is oil, we sand it and use a bonding primer made for oil-based coatings before the new enamel. If the old paint is thick, chipped or already lifting, we strip those areas back so the new finish is not sitting on a weak layer.

What we do on an Arlington Heights cabinet refinish

How an Arlington Heights cabinet job runs

We come out, test the old finish, look at the boxes and give you a written estimate that spells out the prep for what is on your cabinets now. If stripping turns out to be needed in more places than we expected, we show you, price it in writing and wait for your approval. You get the number of days the kitchen will be partly out of use before we start, and we book around the days we said. When the doors are back up, we go over each one with you.

• A free written estimate after we test the old finish
• Oil or latex identified before priming
• Loose old paint stripped, not painted over
• Doors labeled with their own hardware
• Sprayed enamel over the right primer
• A door-by-door walkthrough at the end