How professional kitchen respraying works
A proper kitchen respray is 70% preparation and 30% spraying: all removable doors, drawers and plinths go to a heated workshop spray booth for chemical degreasing, mechanical sanding and 2-pack lacquer spraying, while the fixed cabinet frames and end panels are masked and sprayed on site in one day.
What happens on day one, how your house is protected from overspray, and why you can keep using your kitchen while the doors are away.
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Pick your approximate door count, what your doors are currently made of, and any handle or worktop extras.
Estimated guide price
€1,250 to €2,000 all in
Base respray: €1,250–€2,000 (1 to 2 days on site)
Guide price for a medium family kitchen (10 to 20 doors and drawer fronts) on solid oak, pine or painted timber doors (grain can be kept subtle or high-build filled), keeping your existing handle drillings. Includes removing doors to the spray booth, on-site masking and spraying of fixed end panels, pelmets and cornices, colour-matched 2-pack lacquer in matte or satin, and re-hanging.
Ask a local sprayer for a fixed priceThe five stages of a spray-booth kitchen respray
- Day 1: Unscrewing, numbering and transport (1 to 2 hours). The team removes every cupboard door, drawer front, kickboard and loose panel. Each piece is stamped or tagged on the hidden hinge cup so it goes back on the exact same cabinet, then loaded into padded racks for the workshop. Your sink, hob, fridge and worktops remain completely usable while the doors are in the workshop.
- Workshop chemical degreasing. Cooking oils and silicone polish invisible to the eye will cause paint to ”crazing” or peel within months. Every door is scrubbed with industrial alkaline and solvent degreasers, paying extra attention to doors above the hob, extractor, kettle and bin pull-out.
- Dust-extracted mechanical sanding & 2-pack filling. Orbital sanders hooked to HEPA extractors key every flat face and routered Shaker groove. Dings, pet scratches or old handle holes are filled with 2-pack polyester stopper and sanded flush.
- High-build primer & 2-pack topcoats in the booth. Doors receive one to two coats of high-adhesion 2-pack primer (with tannin blockers on oak/pine), are fine-denibbed with 320–400 grit pads between coats, and are sprayed with two coats of 2-pack polyurethane or acid-catalyst lacquer under HVLP/air-assisted airless guns.
- Final Day: On-site frame spraying & re-hanging (1 day). The team masks your worktops, floors, walls, ceiling and open cabinet fronts with static polythene and low-tack tape, vents the room with an extraction fan, sprays all fixed end panels, pelmets, cornices and frames with fast-dry low-odour lacquer, and re-hangs your cured doors and handles.
Why doors should be sprayed in a booth, not in your kitchen
| Factor | Workshop booth + 1 day on site | Spraying everything inside your house |
|---|---|---|
| Dust & nibs in the finish | Heated, filtered booth air keeps wet doors completely free of household dust | Floating house dust settles on wet horizontal doors |
| Fumes & disruption | 80% of spraying happens off-site; your kitchen stays open all week except 1 day | House turned into a plastic tent for 3 to 4 full days |
| Curing temperature | Baked/cured at 20°C–25°C on drying racks before transport | Depends on room heating and damp Irish weather |
| Both sides of the door | Sprayed evenly on front, back and all 4 edges on rotating turntables | Harder to cure both sides rapidly in a domestic room |
Brush-and-roller hand painting vs HVLP spray finishing
Hand-painting a kitchen with a brush and microfibre roller works well on period bespoke in-frame kitchens where a traditional ”brush-mark” character is wanted, and takes 5 to 8 days on site. If you want a dead-flat, factory-new finish with zero brush strokes or ”orange peel” roller texture — especially on modern Shaker, J-pull or flat slab doors — HVLP / air-assisted airless spraying lays down a uniform 120–150 micron film that looks like a brand-new factory door.
What kitchen respraying costs in Ireland
Our price guide by door count, surface preparation and optional handle or worktop upgrades.
| Job | Typical cost | What moves the price |
|---|---|---|
| Small kitchen respray (up to 10 doors & drawer fronts) | €700 to €1,000 | Doors sprayed in workshop booth, carcasses & pelmets sprayed or rolled on site in 1 day |
| Medium kitchen respray (10 to 20 doors & drawer fronts) | €1,250 to €2,000 | Standard 3-bed or 4-bed family kitchen; 1 to 2 days on site plus booth curing |
| Large kitchen respray with island (20 to 35+ doors) | €2,000 to €4,500 | Includes island tongue-and-groove or flush end panels, tall larder bank & wine racks (2 to 3 days) |
| Stripping peeling vinyl / foil wrap + MDF edge sealing | Adds €250 to €600 | Heat-stripping lifting PVC foil, removing glue residue & high-build priming the raw MDF routing |
| Filling old handle holes & soft-close hinge upgrade | €150 to €450 | Two-pack epoxy filling old knob/handle holes before spraying, re-drilling jigs & new soft-close hinges |
| New laminate worktop fitted alongside a respray | €800 to €2,000 | Or laser-templated 20mm/30mm quartz stone worktops from €2,200 fitted |
Real examples and installation detail
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Questions homeowners ask
Can I still cook and use my kitchen while it is being resprayed?
Yes. While your doors and drawer fronts are away in the workshop spray booth (typically 3 to 5 working days), your worktops, sink, hob, oven and cupboards stay completely uncovered and usable. You only lose access to the kitchen for the 1 day (or 2 days on a very large kitchen) when the team is on site masking and spraying the fixed end panels.
Will there be paint overspray or strong fumes in my house?
Sprayers mask every counter, floor, wall and cabinet opening completely and run a portable extraction fan ducted out a window during the few hours of on-site frame spraying. Fast-flashing cabinet coatings dry to the touch in 20 to 30 minutes.
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