AMAZING Cabinet Painting Tips!!! Holes in Cabinet Doors....

this is paint Life TV I'm chrisy Idaho painter and this video I'm going to try to answer a question I get all the time when we're painting cabinet doors and when we're painting cabinet doors people are seeing these cup hooks in here and they're wondering what the heck we do about these holes we drill in our cabinet doors after we're done painting them another comment we get all the time is I cannot believe you just drilled holes in these beautiful cabinet doors so before I get to talking to you about what we do about the holes I'm going to tell you why we put the holes in these doors to begin with so the reason why we drill holes and put little cup hooks in these doors is so we can hang them on hangers like this and hanging the doors on hangers like this I can now hang them on a system like this and I can spray my doors hanging up and I can literally get four coats sprayed on these doors in one day we use lacquers now and one of the reasons why we use lacquers is they dry a lot faster they they don't run as easy when you spray them spray them on a hanging system like this and they're a lot more durable of a coating and they just look more like a factory finish so I can take a lacquer I can sit here and spray a door like this I can get four coats on in one day I can spray I can prep them I can spray two coats primer coats and two top coats in one day the system that we used to use here's a dry and rack system right here we used to spray our doors with latex paints latex paints when you try to spray them hanging like like this are more likely to run so we used to spray them on a system like this I'd either set them on a bucket or this is kind of an amazing tool right here it's called the spray twirly from paint line all these products are from paint line right here and this drying rack right here is called the 50 drying rack but we would spray them like this and I would spray two coats on the back side of the door and it's less likely to run spraying them down like this you can get them really loaded up we would set them on buckets all over the house but that was we used to do and now they got these really cool drying rack systems where you can set them on the drying rack like this like this I can let them set on that drying rack come back the next day pull it off and then I can spray the opposite side which would be the top side I'll spray two coats on it that day I'm going to lay it on the drying rack it's going to dry for a day and then I'm going to come back the next day and hang them that's a 3-day system this system now that we developed We can spray the doors and get them all done in one day come back and rehang everything the next day and it typically is about a day and a half so we've cut our cabinet painting process down by half and you can imagine how much money we make doing cabinets now so that's why we use this system it's a system this drying drying and spraying rack system there's a drying rack not here in the video but these would go transfer from here and hang on a drying rack and dry so that's why we do it there are two little cup hooks cup hooks are right here they're just simple little cup hooks that we buy at our local hardware store we drill a 332 pilot hole just about A4 of an inch into the door screw the cup hooks in and now they can hang on these amazing hangers they're drilled 10 in apart pretty simple but you're going to ask you know what do I do about the holes so unscrew after we're all done we're going to hang these doors and it leaves these two little holes in there they're not really that big of a deal I've been painting cabinets now for over 5 years using this method and I've only had one customer ever realize that there was holes in the doors and why is that so this door right here I just unscrewed the cup hooks this right here um there's two holes right there you can see the handle right here this is a bottom door this goes on the bottom cabinets right here and the bottom cabinets or the bottom door right here it sits about 6 in off the ground so you can imagine 6 in off the ground you're never going to be able to see those two holes I drilled it's not going to affect the Integrity of the cabinet door now just the opposite door if this was a top hanging door the handle down here I'm going to drill my two holes in the top and the top of the cabinet is about that high I can't even reach it and I can't even see it so I'm not really worried about it cu the customer can never see it but if you're concerned about the holes that are being drilled in there you can use this system and not drill the holes or you can drill the holes and fill them if you're concerned about leaving um and we've filled them before the process for entire kitchen cabin cabinet set is about an hour for one person to do it you're just going to use spackle you'll just spackle it very simple we would just put some spackle on our finger we're going to spackle that little hole right there let that spackle dry and then our lacquer cuz we're using lacquers all we do is just take a natural Bristal brush and we're going to brush some lacquer on the top of that handy little brush baggy right there so I'm just going to brush lacquer on there one coat and you're never going to see it typically most cabinets are white the Spackle white it just takes one coat that's how we go about doing it you can use cocking to fill that hole but the cocking is going to shrink a little bit leave an indentation but I have to say you know in 5 years we've only filled the holes One Time One customer ever noticed I think the customer got on a ladder to clean the top of the cadets the dust off the top noticed the holes she said she couldn't live with the holes so we just said we'd come back and fill them and like I said it took about an hour to fill them so top ones holes are going to go on the top bottom ones holes are to go to the Bottom now how do you know which one is the top one and the bottom one when you remove the cabinet doors just make sure you mark in one of the hinges t for top or B for bottom and then you're going to know put a piece of tape over that so you don't spray it because you always want to have your labels hinges everything labeled but the handle is going to tell you a little bit about where you know the cabinet door came came from but this one label it t for top so you know it's going to be up here handles down here drill your two holes and Away you go hopefully this videos helped you the spraying rocks and drying rocks that you seen right here they're available on our website which is the Idaho painter.com this one I get a lot of people askk me this one from paint line right here the psdr spraying and drying rack it's $425 that's what they sell it for this spray towi I don't know how much that costs this is on our website too uh and if you do that type of spray system where you're concerned about drilling holes you don't want to drill a holes it's an amazing system 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