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Apply Aqua Coat to Cabinet Doors

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How to Fill Grain on Cabinets! Painting Pre-Primed Grainy Oak Cabinets with Aqua Coat

What happens here

Begin by scooping a small amount of Aqua Coat wood grain filler onto a Bondo plastic spreader. Apply the filler evenly across the surface of the pre-primed cabinet doors, focusing on pressing the product into the wood grain. Pay special attention to areas with prominent grain, such as the rounded edges and inner floating panels of the cabinet doors. The white color of the filler on a white pre-primed surface requires careful inspection under proper lighting to ensure complete coverage and avoid missing spots.

Goal: Fill the wood grain of the cabinet doors with Aqua Coat.

Tools and materials

  • Aqua Coat Wood Grain Filler Aqua Coat — Filling the wood grain
  • Bondo Plastic Spreaders Bondo — Applying the filler
  • Cabinet Doors — The surface being worked on

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do too much sanding so here we go we got me and michael are working on these so um let's get the work michael um we're gonna be applying this by the time we get done applying all these doors uh we'll we'll be able to start sanding our other doors over here so let's get i'm gonna be using probably because i got larger doors here i'm gonna be using some larger tools to apply it cruise right along you can see here so the camera it's going to be really difficult to see what we're applying once again i'm going to be really careful not to get anything in these in the edges of the floating panel these don't seem to be as grainy as the other ones but i'm only working on one so far the rounded edges yeah the rounded edges definitely have um grain to them but you are definitely if you've got painted cabinets if they're painted another color that the white that they aren't white it's going to help you also if you pre-prime them pre-prime them like a gray color that will really help you so there's some people that like to prime first you can go ahead and prime first and you can use you know um af before and after you can use water-based primers or oil-based primers if you want almost got this door done here we're gonna go check out what michael's doing over here we're working on this job together all right so front side this one's done we'll be doing the back side i'm gonna set this one on a rack check out what michael's doing over here all right so we're just cruising right along working on these panels so the this job is a little bit differently so we've got these previously coated cabinets that the these panels floating panels are actually going to be caulked the customer was adamant that they get caulked um we're still going to try to keep the aquacoat out of the cracks because we're going to uh use caulking to fill those panels so some people you know cocktail panels some people don't so it's kind of a personal preference and there is you know school of thought some people are believe that you should not caulk them at all but there are a lot of painters out there that do and have success doing it so if you are working long periods of time you're using this stuff it's good to keep your lid on your aquacoat so it doesn't dry out on the top if you start to get your dried stuff mixed with the wet stuff um it starts to get a little bit messy these rounded edges take some a little bit more time a little bit more work because you're trying to fill in grain on these…

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