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Trade: Painting
Join Date: Apr 2006
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How Much Paint?
My first kitchen cabinet job. There is 35 doors at 30"x 22" and 12 doors at 11"x 22" , 9 drawers at 15"x 6". Painting both side of doors and the face of all cabinets. Cabinets are from floor to ceiling. Using Ben moore melamine paint, 2 coats. Do I also need to prime? Or just sand with 220 grit. They say melamine paint doesn't need priming first over shiny cabinets. I figure 2 gallons would do the job! Is this about right?
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Trade: interior paint contractor and window treatment workroom
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 339
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Re: How Much Paint?
when i have done cabinets i always take them off and scrub them down...haven't found a kitchen cabinet not filled will grime. used a brillo pad to clean them and then sanded them as well then primed.but i did them with latex and oil based paint. used the hot dog sponge rollers and they came out great.good luck.
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Trade: Painting
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: NW Suburban Chicago
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Re: How Much Paint?
take your door, drawer size multiply length by width by number of coats to get square footage, then determin how much a gal. will cover. Don't believe the manufactures sq. foot on label, almost always on the high side.
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