Priming a Kitchen for Painting

Video Transcript

"Okay so our next step in painting a kitchen is to prime the areas that we've just repaired. Now there are not a lot of them in this case but in the areas that we have exposed some wood underneath we're definitely going to want to get some primer around that. So I'm going to show you how to do that right now. What we have is our primer. And I'm going to just pop the lid off this with my tool. You can use a screwdriver or the all purpose tool. You want to take a little paint cup. We're going to just pour a little primer in that. Just a little bit. We grab our brush. We're going to catch the drips on the edge of the can. Place the lid. And you're probably going to want some gloves, too, because primer's pretty good at sticking to everything. Throw on our plastic gloves. Okay so let's see our problem areas. Here's one right here where we've chipped away the paint and exposed the wood underneath. Just going to want to dip my primer and just apply right there. And that's going to seal the wood and we want to let it seep right in to the crevice there and just seal up that surface good. Any type of spot where you see exposed wood you always want to hit with the primer. There's another little area right down here as you see. Just want to get that because our next step is going to be to caulk all of those cracks and we want the caulking to be able to stick to our surface. If we were to just to caulk right over this? Probably would peel right off. Because you're basically caulking right over a chalky dusty surface and nothing sticks to that. Okay so that looks good. And then we're going to let that dry for about an hour. And next I'm going to show you how to do the caulking and spackling."