How To Fill Nail Holes In Kitchen Cabinets

By john blog 29 Sep, 2019 Post a Comment

It sounds like your nail hole solution worked well. If you get a little crayon on the trim outside of the hole that s okay.

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This makes the nail hole patching problem a lot easier.

How to fill nail holes in kitchen cabinets. You don t want to fill in the grain on the front side with the filler as you work or you will end up with a smooth grain free area on the front of the cabinets. This will fill the nail hole. If it s a pin size hole on a white wall you can likely get away with applying a touch of filler or paint with a cotton swab.

Here you can see the old cabinet knobs left an impression on the front side. One thing i like to do when putting up trim or other small pieces of wood is to use a micro pin nailer. For small nail holes such as those you would use with trim just take your matching crayon and with firm pressure rub the over the nail hole just like you re coloring.

For paint tips see below but if the hole is noticeable you have to plug it. Some people use white toothpaste. In darker woods i don t even bother to patch the hole.

Albert recommends spackling or caulk or elmer s wood glue and you can use your finger to work it in and then level it. Keep working the filler into the hole and very soon you will start to see it emerge on the front side. The 23 gauge nail which has no head is very difficult to see.

Albert says don t go there. Just take a dry rag and wipe over the area.

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