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Assess Project Requirements and Cabinet Condition

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Should You Caulk Cabinets Before Painting? When to Caulk and When Not to!

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What happens here

Two painters are shown applying AquaCoat, a grain filler and primer, to cabinet doors. One painter, Michael, discusses a job where a designer explicitly specified that cabinet panels should be caulked for a seamless look, despite his usual preference not to. The presenter elaborates that for older cabinets, around 30 years old, which may not have been built to the highest quality, caulking can significantly improve the final appearance by creating a smooth, sealed surface, especially when painting them white. He demonstrates that the panels in these older doors are often very tight and do not float freely, indicating they can be suitable for caulking.

Goal: Determine if caulking aligns with project specifications and the structural integrity of the cabinet panels.

Tools and materials

  • Cabinet Doors — The items being prepared and potentially caulked
  • Putty Knife/Applicator — Applying AquaCoat to the cabinet panels
  • AquaCoat AquaCoat — Grain filling and priming cabinet doors for a smooth finish

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so we're just cruising right along just applying your aquacoat on these cabinets and you know this is a job right here you know um should you the panels or should you not caulk the panels and i do um i don't ever cough panels on uh doors anymore myself but um this job right here is michael's got this job and uh so what did you got um what's the reasoning behind caulking the panels on this job did you say you had a designer that yeah i had a client that has a interior designer and she laid out the whole project and they just handed it over to me and said bid this we want it exact to spec and that was in there that was everything sealed and caulked on the cabinetry to give it a seamless look and um so i just took what was given to me and and um i i just ran with it yeah that's so um basically you know michael's got this situation where you know the specifications spec for them to be caulked and so you know if you want to be able to bid the job and do the job then you're going to have to you know caulk them and so you know you just got to be flexible as a painter sometimes you know um even i can sit here and say well i don't caulk them anymore but if i wanted the job then i would have to talk them and then once a bit once again you know to me this is definitely a situation where i would recommend caulking them and with the success i've had even though i don't do it now anymore with the success i've had doing it over the years i think this is you know a um great situation where you will have success it will look good and these cabinets these things are literally like over 30 years old and so the quality of them when they were built wasn't as good of a quality you know build they're a little more not as expensive of a cabinet so you

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