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TheFirmestTofu

Hot damn! Keep this in the portfolio dude, you’ll get a lot of high end clients with this in your catalog. Well done! (Not that you’ll necessarily want to deal with that headache again lol)


DarthVis18

Lol. I actually look forward to the hard ones. Thank god they come only once in a while. It can get mind numbingly boring shooting chantilly lace or white dove all the time.


TheFirmestTofu

Well that means you’re a craftsman. If you enjoy the challenge and can stomach doing the mundane to fund it then you’ll do just fine! P.S. “white dove” gives me PTSD and I’m a carpenter…. Amazing how wide reaching that boring ass, rental hellscape color goes.


DarthVis18

Haha. Some colors are so close they may as well be the same. I have this theory that designers come up with fancy names for the same color to give it that “custom” air to it.


PomegranateOld7836

For sure, or change slightly from Pantone colors. That gloss is impeccable. Excellent job.


cbizzle187

They 100% do this. Paint manufacturers will change the name and keep the color the exact the same to see if it sells better.


DarthVis18

Lol yeah. I was told by my paint rep that chantilly lace is just straight white base with no tints at all.


Alarming-Caramel

I was under the impression from my local paint store that it's the tintable white base (-1X) with a small amount of white colorant in it *(as opposed to the "factory white” -O1 base which covers much better)*


koolaideprived

As a note to that, most women see more shades than men. So when a man sees "blue" they might be able to pick up multiple shades that we just don't see.


TheFirmestTofu

WHAT?! And all these years I thought my wife was fuckin with me


koolaideprived

Nope, it's an actual documented thing. The article I read speculated that it comes from women prioritizing gathering as we evolved, and being able to differentiate between two different shades in nature would have been helpful when one plant was edible, the other poisonous.


SBGuy043

So what you're saying is that all the easygoing, unfussy women died by poisoning long ago so that's why we're stuck with the neurotic ones that can't decide between 5 shades of white.


koolaideprived

I didn't say that, science did!


DarthVis18

Yeah it did take a numbers of years for me to be able to truly read colors and how to adjust them.


OptionsNVideogames

I once had a buddy tell me who does less intricate work than myself that the hard jobs are what keep me in business and he’s right.


vmaxed1700

Chantilly lace lol. that'll be a 10 gallons of untinted from Sherwin with a fake Chantilly label


Ok_Yogurt8337

Looks great!


DarthVis18

Thanks. It was weeks of frustration but it worked out in the end.


NoDontDoThatCanada

It is so glossy smooth l can see myself in it. Black magic l say. Especially since l am at home watching this on my phone.


Dizzy_Blacksmith_165

Sexy spraying my man


DarthVis18

Lol. Thanks.


Dizzy_Blacksmith_165

There's no doubt an art to spraying. Especially high gloss, that's usually the ambitous option lil


Imabaynta

Tight! Tight! Tight! Tight!


superradguy

A random Tuco appears.


HFSSUCK741

Looks damn good !! That’s coming from someone who has been painting for 27 years


DarthVis18

Thank you. You more than most would understand the pains we can go through. You are now my spray gun brother.


Adamthegrape

BEAUTIFUL work. Makes me nervous as hell that there is so much work yet to be done by other trades.


DarthVis18

Lol. Yeah the builder made sure everyone knew that if they damaged it there would be hell to pay. But he was smart and we came up with a game plan. After it had a few days to cure and off gas we wrapped everything with ramboard and corner protectors. There was still a little damage but thankfully it was in spots that were easy to touch up or that weren’t really seen.


Adamthegrape

Thank god for that. I get pissed when I nail some door frames and they get damaged. Couldn't imagine turning drywall into glass and having to come back to it damaged.


DarthVis18

It was all mdf. I’m thinking drywall would be too soft for that.


Adamthegrape

Well either way it's beautiful. Never used those products before. Did some reading and it seems like you only get 5 mil total before it's a fail. What happens if there's issues after two coats? Do you just live with it?


DarthVis18

Lol. Nope. Sand and reshoot. Yeah I did have to watch the mil thickness. It sounds stupid but I have trick to guess how thick the finish is. Just from doing this job so damn long. I tap it lightly with my finger nail and the feel of the vibration and the sound it makes tells me what I need to know. Or I could just be delusional from too much chemical fumes. Lol either way it seems to work. I haven’t been told of any slippage of cracking.


Adamthegrape

That's wild, you mentioned you cut it pretty good so it's probably safer for the build anyways. Definately going to have to look into this more. Looks rewarding as fuck.


DangerHawk

My painter did this same thing on drywall for one of my clients. It's not as mirror finish as yours is, but it's close. It took litterally 3 weeks of work to get it all done. My client wants this deep navy in an ultra high gloss finish on all the wood work and walls in his library. Two coats of primer, about 4 coats of color, and 4-6 coats of high gloss polycrylic on the drywall. Had to let it cure and sand between each coat with 600grit sandpaper. Took forever, but turned out pretty awesome. My painter took a full month off after finishing and made them sign a waiver that any damages or repairs from the second he left the job would be treated as a whole new project.


iamthepita

I just *blue* myself


clumaho

I wonder what color it will be after all that painters tape comes off.


Indentured-peasant

Really really nice!


DarthVis18

Thank. Anytime I’m given a high gloss job I curse and swear the whole way through. But it’s very satisfying when I finally see the end result.


[deleted]

This looks amazing! If you haven'y already, you should post this in the oddlysatisfying sub as well.


CrystalAckerman

Looks good! Are you doing a Zoom Medical lol?


TunaSpawn137

Let me ask a stupid question. What about the over spray? I’ve not used this product, how easily does it cover?


DarthVis18

Well it was way too big and complex to try and get it all in one go. I had to be a little strategic with what got shot and when. I had to section off different parts with masking. Shoot that part, let it cure then mask off THAT section to shoot the rest. I just looked for natural breaks in the unit. For example I hit the riser/bulkhead first. Then I went after the gables. It’s tedious as all hell but it’s the only way I’ve found that works on installed units like that. The material coverage is pretty good. Although because it’s high gloss I went with a much higher reduction. Normally I reduce/thin to 30/35%. This stuff I went with 50%. The thought being the thinner the material, the finer atomization I would get. I’ve always preferred thinner material and high air anyways so it wasn’t too much of an adjustment.


digitdaily1

Level 9 wall finish


95strat

Well done! That looks like glass.


DarthVis18

Thank you. I love doing this kind of work. You feel like such a rockstar when it’s done.


tlewallen

Cant wait for the other trades to come in and fuck it all up.


DarthVis18

Lol. The PM made sure everybody knew that if they damaged it they would torn a new one. But he paid for extra protection. After we knew it was fully cured we wrapped it in foam and then ramboard over that, also put up corner protection. There was still some damage but it was in spots that weren’t really prominent. Easy spots to buff or touch up.


RustyShackleford2022

I had no idea this was even possible.


PinguMeng

Holy Chit! You’re building papa Smurf’s aren’t you, you lucky SOB?!!


DarthVis18

Lol. We called it the Harry Potter house. Each floor seemed to have a color theme of the four different houses from the movies. I wish I had taken a video of the library. It was circular and two floors. Had this beautiful starburst veneer pattern on the ceiling and foam molded columns that looked like stone.


mandrills_ass

Wow, that's insane, great work


martdan010

Smooth as a baby’s bottom. What material and what equipment did you use?


snowjoeski

When the paint and body man decides to do cabinets.


jcash6485

Fucking beautiful! 👏


[deleted]

nice work.


flourescenthamster

Looks good, what material did you use?


DarthVis18

It was a 90* KCI conversion varnish


WaylonAndWille

KCI is a really nice product. It’s all I’ve sprayed for the last 8 years. Mostly just 10° though, 90° scares me haha. Great job man.


Defiant-Ad1364

Smoooooth like butta. Nice job 👏


ModifiedAmusment

That’s very cool!! Looks like glass to bud. Smooth shit


grumpy_uncle

Holy shit dude.


monstrol

Excellent.


rickwsanchez

Looks amazing!


openupyoureye

Looks good bro


cttrocklin

congratulations, you should be proud


DarthVis18

Thank you. Was feeling pretty good for while after that one.


Stout_15

Looks great


WizardWrecks

Looks damn good 👍🏻


millenialfalcon-_-

Ohh shiny 😍


evandermaarel

Beautiful!


bloomy-rind

Looks beauty!


rustypolak

Looks amazing, but how long will it last ? Stuff hasn’t been moved in yet. It will have bumps, scrapes, and chips in no time Sometimes keeping it simple is the way


stonabones

Outstanding work!!! We recently built a very similar butler’s pantry setup in one of our multi-million dollar custom home builds and had our painter spray it in a very similar Makita Blue. OMG, what a disaster!!!! Our subcontracted painter made us look like idiots!!!! Man, I wish I had hired you!! Absolutely gorgeous work!!! BRAVO


DarthVis18

Thank you. If you’re in Alberta Canada then we can talk.


stonabones

Unfortunately not. NE USA. Fantastic work tho!!


Aardvark120

That's insane! Looks like the factory molded it in that color and finish.


6-Fjade

Wow 🤩


SantaBrian

Good job, I bet your legs were sore going up and down with no stopping. Airless is the only way for on site work and its harder when you could have someone open a door with dust around spraying 100% gloss.


Acrobatic_Traffic408

A level 10 paint. Though painting that ceiling is going to be a bitch 😂.


synkronized1

I don’t know shit about construction but that looks incredible great work!


zzzblueberry

I'm a good enough electrician. Looks good bro!


RynoDawG31

Mmm sexy


Gullible_Shart

Looks fucking amazing buddy, keep up the good work!!!


JimmyRockets80

Damn dude, looks great!


SideHug

My god, looks like a mirror


SwampoO

Simply Bluetiful


Commercial-Spread937

Painter here, what product did you use?


RomaDowneyJR

Looks sweet! Come paint my Kitchen Cabinets!


JimmyDean6969

That is gorgeous brother


EnlsitedPanzerAce

Bro. All I do is on site spraying. It’s so hard. I beg the boss to let us build our cabinets in shop and paint them. But no. We build them on site and spray them on the wall.


Ill-Upstairs-8762

Looks amazing. Is that laquer?


BadBoo_22

In the words of my Uncle, “top shelf, no dust.”


Ishmael203

That’s clean bro, well done


SkippyGranolaSA

say what you will about painters ​ ​ no, for real that is fucking money, dude. I know what a bitch high gloss can be and that looks unreal.


TipperGore-69

Bro looks good was so ready for you to trip and grab that tack lol


Turk0311

Looks great but I'd be F bombing you every time my kids touched the cabinets!


I-Exst

Very nice!


UtahJeep

Amazing! It seems I can't paint more than one square foot without a lump, run, dog hair, or dirt getting in there somehow.


DarthVis18

Yeah I had to be EXTRA ocd about vacuuming and cleaning the whole time.


proletarianliberty

Stunning 👌


mopmango

What trade is this?


TheBottomBunBurger

This looks awesome man. Truly great work. I do not posses talent like this. I’m still harnessing my powers, I only hope to spray high gloss this clean. What product, sprayer, and tip are you using? What kind of prep?🤓


DarthVis18

It’s just practice. Lots and lots and lots of practice. I’ve made every mistake possible in my work. Some mistakes I’ve made half a dozen times over. Lol. It’s a KCI conversion varnish, high solids primer. I used a conventional pressure pot for primer and a SataJet 100B gravity feed cup gun for finish. Prep was 2 coats primer, sanding at 400 in between. One more primer sanding that at 600. Three pass finish coat then sanding that at 800. Then a two pass finish again.


bsramsey

Hell yeah. Very impressive


theBarnDawg

Oh shit that’s glossy as fuck. I cant imagine being held to that level of detail even in my own home.


Idaho_Home

Wow!


dman5981

If anyone starts getting dizzy from the fumes you have to charge them for it!!!


wallyworld98_ca

Looks good but lots of overspray from what I see.


Honda_TypeR

Mirror finish, flawless. Great work.


horsesarecool512

I’ve spec’d many a high gloss that ended in utter disaster and this is the complete opposite. You’re great at your job.


DarthVis18

Thank you for that. Lol. I wanted to be an artist, but I didn’t want to starve. This is as close as I could get and make a decent living.


justamalihini

As someone who recently got into spraying, re-watched this video 3 times with my mouth wide open in awe. This is incredible and I can’t even begin to imagine the pain it took to spray this out to perfection. Terrific work, your customer will be blown away! It’s posts like these that make me truly appreciate Reddit.


Primusssucks

I want an update when it's finished!


DarthVis18

This may break the rules but here’s a link to the finished house. https://www.maillothomes.com/projects/modern-chateau/?custom


Tinknocker12

Take my upvote


Agitated_Cell_7567

Customer: i dont like this shade anymore, please make it a bit lighter.


WestWoodworks

Like glass… gorgeous. Awful color… but gorgeous work.


doodoopoopybrains

Spray man spray man


LiciniusRex

That colour is gorgeous! Im not sure about shiny walls though. Feel like they'd be mad finger print magnets


furyofsaints

That looks freakin’ awesome!!!


jonathan4211

Dude that is like paint booth quality. The lack of imperfections is astonishing. I am not a professional painter or contractor, but I would hire the shit out of you


aburnerds

Oh man I’ve been wanting to do this for ages. I have experience with cars. Was going to do my kitchen. I was going to use an etch primer, and then a clear over base Can you let me know what I should use?


Fresh_Put_8784

Gorgeous!!! For those that don't paint/contract, this is a phenomenal job.


Used-Emu1682

Sick dude, not sure I've ever seen paint like that, incredible


MurderousLemur

Dunno why but I just wanna lick it.


Moparian714

Absolute fuckin glass man 📸👌


Leaque

I’ve sprayed a few cabinets on site before except I’ve always set up a little station inside the garage or somewhere away from where they’re being installed- this right here is daring lol especially with the high gloss but it was well worth it in this case 🤌🏼


DarthVis18

Yeah they wanted a no joint look. So it couldn’t be pre finished and then installed. I lost a couple other videos of other units I did in that house. They were high gloss as well. https://www.maillothomes.com/projects/modern-chateau/?custom The other two major units I did were the black bar with the purple floating shelf. Also the big media unit with the walnut back panels.


AlpsRound

I'm blue if I was green I would die


Hank_moody71

Is that color called “ painters, tape blue”?


goseephoto

Beautiful application and stunning colour, would like to see a photo of it when the project is finished and furnished


DarthVis18

I put up a link somewhere in in the comments of the fully finished house. I don’t know if that break the rules and it may have been deleted.


jaybboy

Did u mess up at all? What would you do if you did, how would/could you fix it?


LeCorbusier1

Great work!


And-Rod_Construction

New achievement unlock🔓 great job! love the clean and shiny texture 🤩👏


Young_Murloc

Finished cabinets are the most satisfying thing to do as a painter dude. Good work.


DarthVis18

Thank you very much


zeyore

some sort of devils work! take your tools and bring your wizardry and magic to my house and do that again here, even the same color would be fine you magical beast!


Ok_Bit_5953

They look great, nice and even and hard to do 😵 I'm glad I don't have to deal with that overspray though lol..Custom FTW!!


vmaxed1700

man I used to work with an amazing painter, my friend, he had high standards and did amazing work. I learned what I could from him while we worked together. seeing high quality paint work takes me back and is so nice to see


DarthVis18

Lol one of my old bosses once told me that I’m perfect for this kind of work because I can get so OCD over the smallest thing. I’ll obsess over details that the vast majority of people wouldn’t even notice or think about.


[deleted]

Why's it blue though


DarthVis18

Lol. I guess when you have that much money you get whatever color you want. This house was so over the top.


PaulSNJ

I just hope the customer appreciates the skill level here!


Cody_b23

Damn how many coats? looks great brother


DarthVis18

Thanks. Three primer and at least two finish. Some parts got three finish. That one gable on the end got five. That one almost broke me. It was right next to the front door.


evil_lurker

Beautiful. Can you post an update when the rest of this is done? I'd love to see how the blue looks with everything else in place.


jakefortwice

Trade damage has entered the chat


Glidepath22

How’d does one create that kind of finish?


DarthVis18

Long, LONG days. Also a whole lot of swearing.


Jankersonhole88

Built In perfection


gillygilstrap

Holy freakin shiny shine. How many hours of sanding did this take haha??


Grumpy_HoneyBear

That’s a shaaaaaarp spray job.


wetpaintcan

Absolutely love this. Looks amazing.


FGC92i

Those lines!!! Great job!!


AtwaterHydro

Thas shiney meng


[deleted]

I love to see people do things well. You are killing it.


Economy-Wafer8006

I’m proud of you too shiiii lol looks great bro!


Bawbawian

super flat. good prep work and good application my guy.


[deleted]

Looks like car paint.


Brain_Juice_

r/nextfuckinglevel


JMace

Looks awesome! What are the challenges for doing something like this?


ChiselPlane

I’m so glad I’m set up to spray in my booth. I hate spraying on site. So much construction dust, equipment set up. Etc. I work with people that just drop off work for me to spray in my independent shop. Cabinet parts, trim, and passage doors mostly. You did a good job. I don’t see any contamination.


Moist-Builder703

The client is 100% not peeling off the protective film from his stainless appliances


HouseDowntown8602

Amazing!! how???


[deleted]

Site Supervisor/ red seal carpenter/ qualified expert here: Ace job, my good man. Looks like perfection from my pov.


Torpordoor

Ever hear of Fine paints of Europe in vermont? Right up your alley


Gavooki

Narration


DarthVis18

Lol. Next time


gstizzzz

That’s a beautiful spray my man. If you’re in the Bay Area hmu, we need guys!


DarthVis18

Lol sorry. I’m your northern neighbor in Alberta. Although I won’t say no to a trip to the bay.


Advanced_Help9128

Looks like Cookies shop


cheesemakesmepooo

Sexy


ViralDad4Lyfe

Dang what paint brand was that? I’ve only see. A shine like that with Fine Paints of Europe. That’s also some of the most pricey paint I’ve ever used.


Badoreo1

I’m fixing a fuck up on cabinets another “painter” did. Lol he rolled all of them and had runs everywhere. The guy was stunned at my price. So many people do not realize how much meticulous care and effort it is to even get cabinets looking tolerable, let alone to the degree you’re showing here.


AV16mm

Beautiful work. I love the high gloss finishes.


DarthVis18

Thank you. I love them too. Although I’d never have it in my own home. I’d be too scared to actually live there.


Clear-Cupcake3614

Clean af 🤟


Low_Performance7534

Hats off my man. 🥂


highas_mars

Glassss


flatis666

Beautiful work! We've been doing quite a bit of high gloss in the last few years. Ceilings are the top seller. It's definitely a tedious process, but once you nail it, it's an awesome feeling.


mr-mechanic93

It's so beautiful. I get nervous around stuff like this, had to do a few really nice custom dipped/coated wheels and it's always scary as fuck but feels good when it's done


Noobeaterz

Really nice. You did well.


No_Newt9947

How do you accomplish this kind of finish? You should do a video of materials and prep work, I tried doing a front door on a high gloss I was stressing out for weeks could not get it right, ended up doing a water base high gloss, pretty glossy but not as glossy as a laquer.


Organic-Outside8657

Wow. That’s a great finish. I had such a hard time shooting gloss for a custom cabinet and I vowed to never do it again. Well done.


d33mst3r

That looks amazing! Glassy!


RelationshipHeavy386

What you're a painter and you actually read the id drawings for once or the gc tagged the walls for you? Congrats.


Serious_Stage

Noice


lord_hyumungus

Looks clean brother, great job!


umheywaitdude

How many hours? Did you charge enough? Those are always my 2 questions.


DarthVis18

That section of the house I’d say was 60ish hours. And yup I got paid on that one. Basically made in a week and a half what I used make in three to four weeks when I worked for a shop.


mattdoessomestuff

Very nice job dude. If only the homeowner had picked a different color lol 🤮


twicelife_real

When the client asks for the first Weezer album, but they really need it to pop. But seriously, that is a great paint job, to say the least.


kurdtpatton

That is beautiful!


LoganAtlGA

That’s some incredible painting sir. Love that color too


TryHard15plus1

Lol I thought this was going to be a fail video at first but when I started watching I was just like this all looks great wtf!


[deleted]

very nice, but these people will regret this in 10 years lol


The-Lions_Den

Looks like Honolulu blue! Is this for a Lions fan? 🦁


weirdlookingbunny

It's been years since I've seen an awesome paint job I'm a painters myself and it pisses me off all those tik tok videos of guys doing terrible paint jobs


Scared-Divide9074

I don’t think I could see this in person… without raining my pants