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

What happens here

After applying the Aqua Coat, place the filled cabinet doors on a drying rack (such as 'Pro Drying Rack') to allow the filler to dry. While working, it's crucial to keep your tools and hands clean. Regularly wipe off excess Aqua Coat from the plastic spreaders using a rag or cloth. This prevents dried filler from accumulating on the tools, which could create rough edges and impede smooth application or scraping in subsequent passes. The video also shows caulking the floating panels on certain cabinet doors, as per customer preference.

Goal: Ensure proper drying of filled surfaces and maintain clean tools for continued work.

Tools and materials

  • Aqua Coat Wood Grain Filler Aqua Coat — The product being applied
  • Bondo Plastic Spreaders Bondo — Application of filler
  • Caulk — Filling floating panels if desired by the customer
  • Drying Rack Pro Drying Rack — Holding cabinet doors while the filler dries
  • Rags/Cloth — Wiping off excess filler from tools and hands

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so i am uh today i'm working with michael michael slanda what is your company's name michael it's michael's slander painting and you're i've got a business we're at here in uh we're out of boise idaho boise idaho right here where i live and how many times have you used aquacoat michael this is my second time second time yeah so um the first time i i completed your cabinet course and that was um in 2019 and then i took uh that and went and sold the job and it came out great and then from that job i was referred to these people to do the same cool for their cabinets awesome so you've done a handful of cabinets now yes and it's just it seems like more and more um when you you find out that you're somebody's done them and they've seen people in the cabinets last for you know 18 year months and still look good starting to finally get the referrals and yeah you know everything it's good i like to keep my hands clean tools clean keep wiping them off every couple doors so it's a so michael's got he's got a rag with them and stuff he's using to wipe his tools down you don't want the aquacoat to dry on your knives because it will end up causing rough edges on your knife which it won't scrape off smoothly so i'm going to show you this is a smaller door i'm going to show you get questions people asking you know how you work in tight spaces so you know tight spaces just require smaller tools so you got large tools small tools got large plastic knives but if you're working in small spaces just use a small tool and i like to you know not have a whole lot of aquacoat with me at the time but if i was working small here's a small knife i can work smaller areas so you um you primed these cabinets first right michael yes i am i was always afraid of tan and bleed so i've used cover stain and then um and i've i've i've just had good luck i primed these about a week ago so you like cover stain primer i do for the stain blocking and the sand ability but you know it is an oil so realizing now that there is other ways to go about cutting out that step and yeah and not bringing the fumes into a client's home because now that everybody works at home the more comfortable you can make it i feel the better if i was priming these themselves if i was doing the painting of them and not just the aqua coating part i like using renner 851 which is a 2k top coat and renner 643 is a 2k primer that is i will block tannins so it's a 2k water-based primer so i like really using water-based…

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