{"id":3692,"date":"2015-04-25T00:08:54","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T05:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/?p=3692"},"modified":"2015-04-25T00:08:54","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T05:08:54","slug":"diy-kitchen-transformation-prep-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2015\/04\/diy-kitchen-transformation-prep-work.html","title":{"rendered":"DIY Kitchen Transformation: The Importance of Thorough Prep Work"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The prep work we did last night wasn’t good enough…<\/p><\/div>\n

We had a pretty substantial setback today on our journey to (like) new cabinets.<\/p>\n

Dave and I had read plenty of DIY tips<\/a> suggesting that if one’s stained and sealed cabinets are old enough, a simple chemical treatment with a “sander deglosser” is all we would need before applying the primer, then paint.<\/p>\n

Boy were we wrong!<\/p>\n

Last night we had applied two coats of Kilz primer to the island and cabinet doors, and this evening, as Dave\u00a0took a sanding block to some of the drips from last night’s work, large pieces of the primer came right off!<\/p>\n

It turned out the deglosser<\/a> didn’t do jack.<\/p>\n

So tonight we had to break out the big guns: trisodium phosphate (TSP)<\/a> and an\u00a0orbiter sander<\/a>\u00a0to get all of the original primer off. It isn’t pretty. We will also be switching the primer to a “bonding primer<\/a>“. We probably should have chosen the bonding primer all along…<\/p>\n

So tomorrow we try all this again…we need to get the prep work right the first time, so this paint doesn’t chip and peel on us in a matter of months!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had a pretty substantial setback today on our journey to (like) new cabinets. Dave and I had read plenty of DIY tips suggesting that if one’s stained and sealed cabinets are old enough, a simple chemical treatment with a “sander deglosser” is all we would need before applying the primer, then paint. Boy were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[306,582,450,581],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-Xy","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3687,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2015\/04\/diy-kitchen-transformation-primer.html","url_meta":{"origin":3692,"position":0},"title":"DIY Kitchen Transformation: No Turning Back Now","date":"23 April 15","format":false,"excerpt":"Today was the primer for the island. Once we started down this road, we told ourselves \"There's no turning back now\". 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