Laquer for gloss paint

[BigJonMcQuimm]

Hi

Looking for some advice.

My kitchen has a lot of white gloss coated wood paint. Is there anything I can put on top such as floor varnish to protect it?

Experience shows that rubbing with a wet clothing corrodes and chips the paint within a year :-(

thanks

[Simpo Two]

This gloss paint of yours - it wouldn't be water-based would it? Proper gloss paint is hard and waterproof - it is its own lacquer.

[rlw]

What he said + whatever you put on it will then go yellow in time, just like real white paint......

[BigJonMcQuimm]

Ahh ok

No it is the proper solvent based paint.

Was hoping some sort of plastic coating could go over the top. The gloss takes weeks to go off properly, and I need to use the kitchen!

[Simpo Two]

Well I've never heard of wet clothing chipping paint...!

Gloss paint can take a few days to harden fully in cold weather but weeks seems odd - did you stir it properly first?

However you can't out anything on top of the paint before it dries or you'll simply prevent it from drying even more... so you have a self-sustaining problem.

You could replace the doors with commercially available white ones.