Want a kitchen or a set of doors to look factory finished, not brushed? Spray painting does that

Spray painting for homes and businesses across London

Most of our spray work falls into four groups: kitchen doors and drawer fronts, internal doors and their frames, radiators and metalwork, and large plain surfaces such as ceilings in new-build flats or the walls of a shop unit. Furniture, wardrobes and built-in joinery come up often too, especially in the mansion flats of Westminster and the Victorian conversions of Islington where the original panelled doors are worth keeping.

We spray with airless equipment for big areas and HVLP (high volume, low pressure) for fine work like cabinet doors, where control and low overspray matter more than speed.

On-site and off-site spraying

Doors and drawer fronts come off their hinges and go to the workshop, where they are sprayed flat in a dust-controlled space and cured before they are rehung. The carcasses, end panels and plinths stay in the kitchen and are sprayed in place behind full masking. That split gives the best finish on the parts you look at most and keeps the house usable.

Internal doors are usually sprayed in place, hung, with the frame and architrave done at the same time so everything matches. Radiators are removed and sprayed if they are being changed anyway, or masked and sprayed on the wall with a heat-resistant enamel if not.

Furniture, kitchens and joinery finishes

A kitchen respray changes the colour and the sheen without changing the units. The sequence is: doors and handles off, everything degreased (kitchen grease is the main reason resprays fail), sanded to a key, an adhesion primer made for laminate or melamine where needed, then two to three coats of a two-pack or waterborne polyurethane lacquer. Matt, eggshell and satin are all possible; high gloss shows every flaw and needs a filler-primer stage.

Wardrobes, bookcases, chests and tables get the same treatment scaled to the piece. Where the timber is to stay visible rather than painted, a sprayed clear lacquer or varnish is often the better route.

Shopfronts, uPVC and exterior recoating

uPVC windows, doors and fascias can be sprayed rather than replaced. The surface is cleaned with a solvent, keyed lightly, then coated with a uPVC-specific paint such as Kolorbond or Zinsser AllCoat that flexes with the plastic and holds its colour. Anthracite grey on white frames is the common request. Roller shutters, metal shopfronts, garage doors and railings are sprayed with a direct-to-metal enamel after rust treatment. Most of this is commercial decorating work done out of hours so the business stays open.

Materials and surface types we spray

Preparation, masking and application

Roughly two thirds of a spray job is masking. Every surface that is not being sprayed is covered: floors, worktops, appliances, windows, sockets, the room next door. Extraction and a respirator are used indoors. Coats are applied thin and wet, overlapped by half a pass, with the correct flash-off time between them. Overspray is controlled by tip size and pressure, not by hoping.

Collection, delivery and turnaround

For a workshop respray we collect doors on day one, spray and cure them over three to five days, and rehang on the return visit while the carcasses are done in place. A typical 20 to 25 door kitchen is out of action for the in-place spraying days only. Single pieces of furniture are collected and returned within the week. Anywhere inside the London postcodes we work in is collected by van at no drama.