Krud Kutter GO326 Gloss Off Prepaint Surface Preparation Cleaner, 32 oz

Works great, used on painted wall to prep for wall tile. Hard to source locally.

Love it. It is great for de-glossing.

I have old kitchen cabinets that were painted with an oil based paint, semi-gloss. I wanted to paint over them with a latex paint (satin). So I was told that I need to sand the cabinets before priming them with a bonding primer. I was trying to avoid the time consuming sanding process and hoping if a I used a deglosser or really good bonding primer, it would stick. Then I could apply my top coats. So I bought the Behr bonding primer, which is pretty expensive. First I tried a small section with just bonding primer and no prep work. It says that you can prime over glossy surfaces with no sanding. The bonding primer did not stick at all. I then sanded a section with 220 grit sand paper and the bonding primer stuck well. I then tried the gloss off with no sanding. I applied with a rag and let it dry. The bonding primer stuck a little better than no sanding but not great. You could scratch off some areas pretty easy. I then tried using the gloss off on another section and this time I applied with a scotch brite scrubbing pad. So I was scrubbing as I applied the gloss off. I then applied the bonding primer and it stuck just like it did when I sanded! So the product worked for me if I used a scrubbing pad to apply it and using a high quality bonding primer. I think if if you used this product alone and used a scrubbing pad but just used a general purpose primer, it may not work but I have not tried that.

Works great, dry fast, paints smoothly right over

Way better than TSP products. With TSP the wood bleeds through and turns while paint yellow, with Gloss Off it cleans the surface and really gets rid of a lot of stain left on the surface as well as the top coats so when you’re ready to paint it’s all “matte” and a great surface for paint adhesion. I wish there was more because you need the rag really saturated so if you have a big project you’ll need at least 2.5 of these or more. I used mine for wooden baseboards, window trims, and more so I used 2 total. Maybe I was using too much? But I loved this stuff.

So, so as a cabinet cleaner, but no, no as a cabinet deglosser. I would have gotten the same results using hot water, common cleaning products and elbow grease.

This worked great! It was easy to apply and the paint went on and has been scratch resistant. I will definitely buy more as I am working on my house projects.

I really wanted this to work, but unfortunately it didn’t live up to the “gloss-off” name. It worked well as a general cleaner, but didn’t remove the gloss finish at all. You can literally see me in the video double-checking the bottle to make sure I wasn’t missing a step. I ended up giving up and grabbing a couple bottles of acetone from Dollar Tree instead. Might be fine for light prep, but not if you actually need to degloss.