What You’ll Need to Know Before Refacing Your Kitchen Cabinets

For San Diego residents looking to give their kitchen a bit of a facelift, refacing the cabinets can be a cheaper alternative to replacing them entirely. Refacing generally involves cabinets San Diego taking the cabinet doors and drawers out of the cabinet and the sanding, straining, priming, and painting all the front-facing surfaces. Alternatively, and at greater cost to you, you can opt to replace the doors and the front piece of the drawers yourself depending on how much time you’re willing to invest in the project. But before you get started there’s going to be a few things that you want to look into before you begin to put money into refacing.

#1. Are the Cabinets a Good Candidate for Refacing?

This is the big one here. If you’re thinking about refacing your kitchen cabinets, you should take a good look at the frames to make certain that they’re clear of refacing kitchen cabinets San Diego structural damage, mold, and water damage. Refacing kitchen cabinets San Diego is a bit of a monetary investment, even if you do it yourself. If you spend the time and money to reface and upgrade a structurally unstable cabinetry you’ve done the equivalent of putting lipstick on a pig that’s about to die. Similarly, mold can occasionally be removed, but by the time that it’s eaten through the wood and gotten into the fibers the integrity of the shelving has been compromised and it’s time to move on to a new cabinetry completely. Water damage can also compromise the structural integrity of the wood.

#2. Choose a Top Quality Polyurethane for a Sealant

During the 60s it was common for folks to replace wooden cabinets with metal ones because the thinking was that the heat and moisture that wood is subjected to in the refacing cabinets San Diego kitchen area was simply too much. Most of these folks found out that metal doesn’t like moisture either and ended up replacing their metal cabinets again. Nowadays, metal cabinets are still available, but most folks agree that a well-treated wood is the way to go. In order to protect your cabinets from hot kitchen cabinets San Diego moisture, which kitchens tend to get quite a lot of, you’re going to want a top quality polyurethane to increase the lifespan of the cabinets.

#3. Figure Out if You Want to Reface the Doors or Replace the Doors

If you’re looking over the doors and thinking it seems like an awful lot of work to preserve the detailing and finery of the wood, one option is to replace the doors entirely. This of course will save you a good deal of time sanding, refinishing, staining, and repainting. So it’s a less cost effective option, but it will save you some time.