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If the boxes are sound, you do not need new cabinets
A cabinet finish that peels was almost always laid over grease nobody cleaned off first.
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Refinish or replace
Value House Painting has refinished cabinets for San Antonio homeowners since 2003. Owner Michael Hernandez runs every job.
New cabinets mean tearing out boxes, re-cutting countertops and living without a kitchen while it all gets rebuilt. Refinishing keeps the boxes you already have.
If the doors close square and the frames are solid, paint does the work a full remodel would do, with far less disruption to the house and far less of your kitchen in a dumpster.
Prep comes first
The finish only lasts if the surface underneath was cleaned, sanded and primed the right way, and most of the job is the part nobody ever sees.
Kitchen cabinets carry years of cooking grease, especially around the stove and on the handles. Nothing sticks to that. We clean and degrease every door, drawer front and face frame before a single sheet of sandpaper comes out, because skipping this step is the most common reason a cabinet finish peels later.
Factory finished and previously painted doors are slick by design. We sand and degloss those surfaces so the new coating has something to grip, then vacuum and wipe the dust off so it does not end up locked under the finish.
Dings, chipped edges, old hardware holes and loose joints get filled and repaired before anything is primed. On oak and other open grain woods the grain still reads through paint unless it is grain filled first, so we walk you through that choice before we get there.
Ready to talk about your kitchen or bathroom cabinets? Michael will come out, look at what you have and tell you honestly whether refinishing is the right call for your home.
Detail work
Cabinet refinishing is detail work. We take our time on prep, because that is the difference between cabinets that still look right years from now and cabinets that start chipping in the first season.
We will walk your kitchen with you, tell you what your doors and face frames will and will not do under paint, and explain it clearly so you can make the best choice for your home.
Kitchen and bathroom cabinets are refinished right where they are. Doors and drawer fronts come off to be finished separately, the boxes and face frames stay put, and your countertops, plumbing and layout are left alone. Compared with a remodel, the kitchen is back in normal use quickly.
Our interior process starts with covering and protecting all of your flooring, walls, furnishings and fixtures. Cabinet work makes dust when we sand and overspray when we spray, so masking is not an afterthought here. We contain the work area and leave the rest of your house the way we found it.
At Value House Painting we are dedicated to making your experience stress free with exceptional service, superior materials, and excellent workmanship at a competitive price. That is Michael's promise, backed by a 2 year written transferable warranty of quality and $1,000,000 in liability insurance.
Why homeowners choose us
Value House Painting is a locally owned small business that has been painting San Antonio homes since 2003. Michael Hernandez is on the jobs himself.
Every project carries a 2 year written transferable warranty of quality, and we hold $1,000,000 in liability insurance.
In your home
Our interior process starts with covering and protecting all of your flooring, walls, furnishings and fixtures. From there, cabinets follow their own order.
Every door and drawer front is taken off, labeled so it goes back exactly where it came from, and finished separately on racks rather than hanging in place.
Hinges, pulls and knobs come off before prep and go back on at the end. Painting around hardware is how you end up with gummed up hinges and paint lines along the edges.
A bonding primer goes on before color. That is what lets a new finish hold on a door that already had a factory finish or an older coat of paint on it.
Doors and drawer fronts are sprayed for a smooth, even finish. Face frames and boxes are sprayed where the area can be masked properly, and brushed and rolled where spraying would put overspray somewhere it should not go.
Paint is dry to the touch long before it is fully cured. You can use the kitchen again quickly, but for the first couple of weeks go easy: close doors and drawers gently, do not stack things hard against fresh surfaces, and wipe rather than scrub.
In their words
We just used Michael Hernandez with Value House Painting. His crew is great and pays attention to details!
Cabinet refinishing is one part of what we do. Value House Painting also handles interior painting, exterior painting, commercial painting and popcorn ceiling removal across San Antonio. You can see everything we offer on our home page.
Straight answers
In most kitchens, yes. If the boxes are solid and the doors still hang and close properly, refinishing gets you a new look without tearing anything out. Replacement makes more sense when the boxes are water damaged, coming apart, or you want a different layout. Michael will tell you straight which one you are looking at.
It depends on the size of the kitchen and how many doors and drawer fronts there are. The boxes stay in place the whole time, so the kitchen comes back into normal use far sooner than it would during a remodel. We will give you a realistic schedule before we start rather than a number over the phone.
On open grain woods like oak, yes. Paint follows the grain rather than hiding it, so oak cabinets still read as oak unless the grain is filled first. Grain filling is extra prep and extra time, but it is the only way to get a smooth, modern surface on oak. We will show you the difference before you decide.
Both, depending on the piece. Doors and drawer fronts are removed, labeled and sprayed on racks, which gives the smoothest finish. Face frames and boxes are sprayed where the area can be masked properly, and brushed and rolled where it cannot be.
Paint is dry to the touch quickly but keeps hardening for a while after that. For the first couple of weeks, close doors and drawers gently, do not stack heavy items hard against fresh surfaces, and wipe spills instead of scrubbing them. After that they clean like any other painted surface.
Yes. Bathroom vanities and linen cabinets get the same treatment as the kitchen: hardware off, doors removed and labeled, cleaned, sanded, filled, primed and finished. Bathrooms deal with moisture rather than cooking grease, so the prep is adjusted for that.
Value you can count on
Before you price out a full kitchen remodel, let us look at the cabinets you already have. Tell us where you are and what you are working with, and we will get back to you to set up a time to see the job.
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