Painting Furniture and Cabinets with 2K Poly Paint: A Complete Guide!

this chriso painter here on paint Life TV today I'm going to be painting some furniture I got some furniture behind me we got some other Furniture here in our shop and in our booth and we're going to be painting it using the 2K poly spraying it with an airless sprayer we're going to be getting amazing looking results if you want to know how to paint your furniture make it look like a professional did it make it look like it came out of a factory stay tuned for this video all right we're going to get started painting our furniture and I got multiple pieces of furniture I've got a shelf here we've got a a nightstand we've got a picture frame uh we got another nightstand we got a TV stand we got a bunch of different pieces of furniture we're going to be doing it different colors we're going to be using the um poly that could be used 1K or 2K if you're not familiar you know with that terminology it's catalyzing it or hardening it I've got videos that explain that process and we'll be uh explaining a little bit as we go to as we um catalyze and Harden the paint because if you want your furniture to be extremely durable and have that soft velvety look and um finish to it then you want to catalyze your product or add a hardener to it so we're going to be sanding using our ecosand 3x4 sander it's an amazing sander with hepac hooked up to it we've got an inspection table so we can inspect our um Furniture we can inspect our work to make sure we've got a Flawless finish some of it's going to have kind of a rustic look to it some of it's going to have you know a polished uh look to it but there's going to be different um things we're going to be doing we've going to be doing some filling with some Bondo sanding vacuuming spraying multiple coats in our spray booth that we can do right here inside the shop and ventilate it outside so we're just going to begin walking you through the process um the beginning process is the sanding filling um any type of cocking you need to do or whatever you need to get that furniture ready to spray so let's get on with the prep process you can not catalyze it or you can catalyze it all the way up to 15% you know why would you um not catalyze it because you really want to add that durability the hardness the bonding capability that really soft buttery like f chip resistance chemical resistance you want to add that to the paint uh the catalyst is money so it does cost money it's not cheap so that's one of the drawbacks to it so the more you catalyze it the more money it's going to cost you can catalyze it up to 15% whenever I'm doing kitchen cabinets I always catalyze it at 15% now you know give or take um you know a half an ounce or something you don't have to be exactly precise it called um I'm catalyzing the furniture at 8% and it came out to 5.1 so um 5 oz will work it's um so give or take right in there I've got my 64 o measuring cup and I just buy these these um standard measuring cups that have ounces on them there's a lot of other crazy things I'm r Shields and stuff I don't pay attention to any of that it's just the side right here that measures um ounces so this measured out 64 Oz did the calculation 8% it comes up to 5% catalyst so I'm just going to measure out on here 5 oz now when you dump in your Catalyst this is extremely important you don't want to just dump it in right there if you just dump it in what's going to happen is um you're going to flash Harden this stuff it's going to uh make it get hard super fast you want to just slowly stirred in so I'm going to measure off my ounces 5 oz so pretty close to five now I'm just going to use a stir stick I'm going to start to slowly stir in my Catalyst I do not want to dump it in fast super fast so I'm just going to slowly stir it in the Catalyst does you don't have to have a sweat time to it like some apoc see some two-part Coatings you have to let it sweat which means you got to let it set for a certain period of time and activate it there is no sweat time on this product as soon as I mix it I'm ready to go to start spraying it I do have a pot life you need to pay attention to that pot life cuz you could ruin your sprayer if you don't clean it out you know before it hardens CU it will harden inside your sprayer so my pot life is going to be 5 hours once I'm done catalyzing it stirring it in I'm I'm going to have Luke mark down our time that we catalyze it and our time we need to clean that's very important to pay attention to it's good if you have a phone just to set an alarm about 30 minutes before you know it's time to clean it up so it's a reminder the the pot life will change according to um the conditions room conditions or outside conditions if it's wherever you're spraying if it's really hot it's going to de increase your pot life so if it's uh 95° here inside where I'm at it's probably going to decrease it down to about 4 and 1/2 hours so pay attention to that so I've got my product mixed up so it's 11:30 add 5 hours to that you know 70° inside here so we got 11:30 and then what's our clean time Luke 4:30 we need to make sure we um we clean up where just going to be doing one piece of furniture with this black so it's going to be pretty fast we're going to spray several coats on when I'm doing dark deep based colors um vibrant colors I'm going to be adding a thickener to the paint I already added the thickener the thickener just um thickens the paint exactly what it says um gives it more body and you can spray a heavier Mill thickness the paint will hang a little bit better when you add a thickener I always add about a tablespoon especially with a black that's really thin a thickener is going to I'll help it out I've got a couple other colors that are kind of deep colors that um are the same thing I added a thickener to the kind of the mustard yellow that we're going to be doing in one of the other colors so we're ready to go ready to load this thing up and start spraying all right we got one of the things we're working on is this is a shelf right here kind of like a Sho rack type shelf we're getting the initial sand done it we're using our 3x4 sander using three 20 grit um film Tech right here for our flat surfaces then we're also using a 10 mm very fine sponge to hit the rounded surfaces and edges right here I do got a spot there's um this is a wood piece of um furniture and there was a piece of oil or grease if I ever run into any type of contamination issues fishee issues I'm typically going to be using a uh spray can of bomb of Ben 123 so I'm just going to spray that get that that nice and coated that little oil spot right there all right we're getting done with our uh first coat just about and this is going to be our seal coat it's going to dry in about 45 minutes to an hour we'll be able to sand it and then hit it again just depending on how it feels um the build on the product um being barewood I think we'll probably hit three coats on this dry time's extremely fast so your recat and sand time is extremely fast we'll be able to get three coats on this thing pretty quick but we're going to keep finishing this up and we'll start on of the sanding and second coat all right now we we're working on we're letting one piece of furniture dry we're going to be working on this other piece of furniture I've done some initial sanding on it it's kind of a rustic looking piece of furniture it's got a lot of um initially when it's made they hid it banged it up and stuff kind of gave a rustic look to it but there are some nail holes in it where they nailed things together they just wanted to eliminate um a few of those things so I filled it with Bondo glazing putty now we're just going to go around sanding it with our 3x4 sander and then this one's want to be ready for the first coat of [Music] paint all right so we're waiting for once again one piece of furniture to dry we're working on this other piece we've got did some bondoing on here get rid of some Nix and dings on this piece of furniture might uh a little bit of a seam right here to get rid of that seam this is kind of a piece of plastic that's um nailed on the face of that uh particle board right there to give it a nice Edge to it and um it might be good to it but we we're working on vacuuming it we just got a a shop vac right here a little Bosch a battery operated shop vac makes it nice and convenient you want to shop back get all the dust off before you take it into the spray booth we're going to shop back it then we're going to blow it off with our blower right here blower tool to get any dust off we want a completely dust free piece of furniture before we spray on our first coat all right it's been about 45 minutes to an hour we're starting to sand do our first sand after our first seal coat and then we're going to shoot another coat on there it's on there pretty heavy sanding pretty well feels pretty smooth and then we're going to get ready to shoot the second coat I'm using an a very fine Echo silk 10 mm sponge to do the sanding that I'm doing right now doing film Tech on the flats is grabbing a little bit too much and being a little bit too aggressive so I just switched to a 10 mm sponge which is giv me the um nice feel and that I like so here we go with the sanding going to finish this up we're doing a little bit of force drying U to get this thing to dry a little bit faster cuz I got multiple pieces of furniture so we're just running a fan and our booth at the same time so there you have it a few little tips and tricks and just a look at how we go about painting furniture what products we use some of the tools and equipment we use if you haven't subscribed to our Channel hit the subscribe button hit the notification Bell that way you get notified every time I come out with a a new video it's just an email that gets sent to you by YouTube it's Been free for 12 years it will always be free it's just a little notification that a new video from paint Life TV 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