Door & wardrobe lacquering in Madrid

Why does a good lacquer last decades and a bad one last months?

Because 70% of lacquering is invisible: it’s what happens before the enamel. Removing the hardware instead of painting around it, sanding and keying the existing varnish, filling every dent — and the decisive step, a bonding primer made for varnished wood. Without it, the enamel never anchors and ends up flaking at the contact points, which on a door is everywhere. Then two or three coats of polyurethane lacquer with fine sanding between them. The result is checked against the light: a continuous surface, no runs, no brush marks.

Is it worth lacquering instead of replacing?

Almost always, and not just for the money. Doors in Madrid flats from the 70s-90s are usually solid wood of a quality that’s genuinely hard to buy today: swapping them for mid-range new doors means replacing something good with something worse in a different colour. Lacquering keeps the original joinery — its weight, its sound, its mouldings — and gives it the current finish you’re after. Replacement only makes sense when a door is structurally damaged or you want a different format.

When should you do it, and what does it cost?

The optimal moment is together with painting the flat or after gotelé removal: protection goes up once, trades chain without idle days, and the combination of smooth walls + lacquered joinery is what genuinely modernises a flat. Per-door and whole-flat prices are published in the lacquering price guide; after the visit, a fixed quote with dates in writing.

What happens after handover?

We review the work with you door by door before packing up, and explain the first week’s curing care. The warranty is written, and if years later a knock or a move leaves a mark, a properly lacquered door takes a spot repair without redoing the whole thing — an advantage factory-lacquered doors don’t always allow.