“What’s actually happening to my doors for those two weeks?” It’s a fair question, and we’d rather show you than ask you to take it on faith. Here’s every stage your doors move through in our Loveland shop — and why each one exists.
1. Check-in and labeling
Every door, drawer front, and panel gets logged and labeled against your order the moment it comes off your truck. Hinge boring, sizes, and counts are verified up front, so a discrepancy gets caught at drop-off — not discovered at your install. What arrives is what returns.
2. Prep and sanding
This is the stage that decides whether a finish lasts. Nearly everything that comes through the contract side arrives as raw wood, sanded and ready to finish — so our job here is verification and refinement, not rescue. We confirm the sanding meets spec (180–220 grit; finer on HDF), take every piece to a uniform profile the primer can bite into, and fill any cracks or imperfections. Small voids that only show up under primer get filled at no charge — that’s part of the process, not an upcharge. If a piece arrives genuinely not finish-ready, we’ll flag it at check-in and give you options rather than spray over a problem. A finish is only as durable as what it’s sitting on.
3. Priming
Doors are sprayed with a high-build primer matched to the system going over it — different base for pigmented color versus stain-and-clear work. Primer gets its own sanding once cured, which is what gives the topcoat that flat, factory feel you can’t brush onto a door.
4. Color matching
Pigmented colors are mixed to the spec on your order — a manufacturer color number, a physical sample you’ve dropped off, or a drawdown we’ve made for your client to approve. Stained work gets stepped samples on the actual species first, because the same stain reads differently on oak, maple, and alder. Nothing gets sprayed at volume until the match is right.
5. Spraying
Topcoats go on in the booth: filtered air, controlled temperature, proper film thickness per pass. We spray catalyzed coatings designed for cabinetry — the kind of chemistry that needs a controlled environment, which is exactly why it can’t be done well on a jobsite.
6. Curing
Sprayed pieces rack into drying out of the dust and stay there until the coating is genuinely ready to handle — not just dry to the touch. Rushing this stage is where blocking and early wear come from, so we don’t.
7. Quality control
Before anything is wrapped for pick-up, every piece gets inspected under proper light: coverage, sheen consistency, edges, backs. Anything that doesn’t pass goes back a stage. The fiftieth door has to match the first.
8. Pick-up
You get notified, doors come out wrapped and labeled in order, and your crew rehangs and moves on.
How turnaround is scheduled
Turnaround isn’t a guess — the contractor portal shows posted lead times when you schedule your drop-off, based on actual shop capacity. Pick your drop-off and pick-up dates around your build schedule, and if a deadline genuinely can’t move, ask us about expedited scheduling.
Want to see it instead of reading it? The video above walks the whole floor. And if you’re ready to put doors through the process, create a contractor account — pricing and turnaround are posted right in the portal.