Kitchens in apartments and stacked townhouses come small, factory-finished and subject to house rules. Planning this cabinet painting means elevator slots, parking and odour limits as much as it means doors.
Cabinet painting work follows the towers going up quickly at Uptown Core and along Trafalgar Road near the Oakville GO station, and older buildings near Kerr Village and the lake have been there for decades. Between them there are thousands of ten to twenty piece kitchens waiting for a colour that is not builder white.
Building Rules Set The Cabinet Painting Schedule Before We Do
Weekday daytime hours are the norm, the service elevator has to be reserved and padded, and property managers ask for insurance paperwork on file before anything comes through the door.
None of that is a problem, but it does mean the first phone call is about dates rather than colours. Loading doors out of a unit on the fourteenth floor takes an elevator slot, and so does bringing them back. Cabinet painting in a tower gets scheduled backwards from those two slots.
Doors Leave On Day One So The Unit Stays Livable
A condo has nowhere to do cabinet painting. There is no garage, no spare room and often no second bathroom, so nothing can be laid out to dry indoors.
Fronts are unscrewed and numbered on the first morning and leave the building that same day. Carcasses and face frames get coated in place behind sealed containment, a single day in most units. After that the kitchen is open shelving until the doors come back, and the occupant keeps living there throughout the cabinet painting.
Odour Matters More In A Tower Than In A House
Corridors in a condo share their air with the cabinet painting, and nothing halts a job faster than a neighbour reporting a solvent smell.
Waterborne enamels and waterborne two-component finishes are what we use in these units for that reason. They sit well under current volatile organic compound limits, they carry far less smell than solvent lacquer, and combined with containment and an extraction fan the cabinet painting stays inside the unit. Doors are sprayed off site anyway, which removes most of the odour from the building entirely.
Melamine And Factory Shaker Are What Most Of These Kitchens Hold
Older buildings are usually melamine, which needs a waterborne bonding primer and a proper adhesion window before the doors go back. Newer towers are factory-finished MDF shaker, which is the easiest substrate in the trade to repaint.
The job stays small regardless: ten to twenty pieces, a galley or single-wall run, and a total near the bottom of the local bands. The primer details for slick surfaces are on the thermofoil, melamine and laminate page, and a colour that suits a small room is worth testing through a sample door.
Book Condo Cabinet Painting Around The Building's Calendar
Give us the building rules and the rest follows. A free visit tallies the pieces, names the substrate and produces a written cabinet painting quote plus whatever paperwork the property manager wants. Begin at the contact page, read the full range of work, or call +1 (289) 206-6886.
Condo Kitchen Cabinet Painting Questions
Do the doors leave the building?
Yes, on the first morning. Fronts are unscrewed, numbered and leave that day, because a condo has no garage or spare room to dry them. Carcasses and face frames are coated in place behind sealed containment, usually in a single day, and the kitchen stays usable as open shelving.
What about odour in the corridors?
Waterborne enamels and waterborne two-component finishes are used in condos for that reason. They sit well under current volatile organic compound limits and carry far less smell than solvent lacquer. With containment and an extraction fan, the work stays inside the unit.
What do building managers usually ask for?
Weekday daytime hours, a padded and reserved service elevator, and insurance paperwork on file before anything comes through the door. The first call is about dates rather than colours, and the schedule is built backwards from the two elevator slots.