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Maintain Cleanliness and Organize Tools

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Flat Sanding cabinet doors. Cabinet Painting 101

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Maintain a consistently clean work environment. Regularly scrape off any dried spackle or paint residue from your work table and vacuum all surfaces. Use a horse hair vacuum head on a battery-operated vacuum for gentle yet effective dust removal from cabinet doors, crevices, and the work table. Store abrasives, fillers, and tools in an organized manner, using a tool shelf on the vacuum system or a dedicated drying rack to keep them accessible and prevent interference during work. A clean work surface prevents debris from scratching freshly prepared cabinet doors.

Goal: Regularly clean your work surfaces, vacuum dust, and organize tools to ensure a dust-free environment and efficient workflow.

Tools and materials

  • Paint Line Drying Rack Paint Line

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cabinet doors so another part of flat sanding getting a really good sanded surface is having you know a good clean surface to be sanding on i want to make sure like because i'm doing bondoing spackling and stuff like that i don't want to have anything you know hard on this paper i like paper down for a nice soft surface to be laying on but i don't want anything rough anything that could be scratching my finish i'm going to you know feel this occasionally the paper and make sure it doesn't have anything on it a dry spackle anything that's going to be rough or hard i've been doing some caulking spackling on here just make sure you have a good soft givable surface and a clean surface to be sanding on and if it's not just scrape it like this get it all nice and clean and then vacuum it occasionally so i'm always i'm every time i vacuum one of my doors i typically vacuum the surface of my table also to keep it clean so once again it's great having a battery operate they got a bosch vacuum down here it's like that good clean surface now i'm going to continue my filling and my sanding so we're continuing right along just doing our sanding filling when i'm working trying to get this ultra flat finish also pay attention to your seams and your cabinet doors we definitely want to make sure those seams are getting filled so you don't see any types of scenes seams once again having an inspection light is absolutely critical having the inspection like casting right at the right angle is also important also to getting that flat finish this door is looking pretty dang good looking almost imperfection free got a few now and then we keep seeing these little um and they're probably you know pieces of dust pieces of caulking or something because these doors were actually cocked also it's a little high spots in these edges right here just sanding those things out you never know what the customer is going to pick out so you just want to make sure your doors are flawless we're trying to get the flawless finish that we can you can see i do got a table a paint line drying rack you know right next to me it's good to have a racking system right next to you so you can you know work with your doors pulling them back and forth nice and easily if you're spraying flat it's the perfect rack for spraying flat on a spray twirly and then stacking them on that that's a rack with four screws breaks down really easily and can transport to your job site so there you have it some simple tips and…

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