Pre-mortem a cabinet job with FMEA
Use FMEA to identify and reduce high-risk failure modes before a cabinet painting project starts.
A stained oak kitchen will be painted white. Risks include grease contamination, tannin bleed, poor adhesion, dust nibs, door mix-ups, and customer expectations about grain visibility. FMEA = failure mode, effect, cause, control, priority The common trap is treating cabinet painting like wall painting with smaller surfaces. Cabinet failures are often hidden until doors are handled, cleaned, or reinstalled. Name Failure Modes List possible failures: primer rejection, tannin bleed, dust nibs in finish, wrong door placement, visible grain complaints, soft enamel at reinstall. A failure mode is the way the result can go wrong, not the task that caused it.…
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