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Manage and Conceal Holes after Painting

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

What happens here

After the painting process is complete and the doors are ready for reinstallation, the cup hooks are unscrewed, leaving two small holes. The presenter explains that for bottom cabinet doors, these holes are typically not visible as they are often covered by handles or sit low to the ground (about six inches off) and are rarely noticed by customers. For top cabinet doors, the holes would be drilled on the top edge, which is usually out of sight. However, if a customer is concerned, the holes can be filled using spackle and then touched up with a natural bristle brush and the same lacquer used for the cabinet. The filling process for an entire kitchen's worth of cabinets is estimated to take about an hour for one person.

Goal: Address and potentially fill the holes left by cup hooks in cabinet doors.

Tools and materials

  • Natural Bristle Brush — Applying lacquer for touch-up
  • Lacquer Paint — Touching up filled holes
  • Spackle — Filling small holes in cabinet doors

What they say

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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

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