Adjusting Kitchen Cabinet Door Hinges

Stubborn cabinet hinges are almost always the result of abuse.

Adjusting kitchen cabinet door hinges.

Each hinge has a horizontal adjusting screw closest to the front of the cupboard and a horizontal locking screw closest to the back of the cupboard. You can adjust most cabinet door hinges quite easily using the screws inside the door. Side to side adjustment. How to adjust cabinet hinges that won t close.

Cabinet door hinges have 2 vertical fixed door screws that attach the hinge to the door and 2 vertical adjustable cupboard screws that attach the hinges to the cupboard. Its this adjustment that moves brings the door closer too or further away from the edge of the cabinet. Hinges may start sticking if the door continually gets slammed or closed too hard or. Use screw 1 to adjust the doors from side to side.

Make your kitchen cabinets close easier and look better with just a few simple door hinge adjustment tips. Using a phillips screwdriver you can tighten or loosen the screws moving the cabinet up and down side to side or in and out. Turning the screw in a clockwise direction moves the door closer to the edge of the cabinet. This same adjustment is used to align a door with the edge of the cabinet.

This is the most common adjustment required. The front screw on the hinge is normally used to adjust door alignment or in other words the distance that the door overlays the cabinet. Adjusting the doors ensures that they hang correctly and match up evenly with other cabinet doors. With traditional hinges only minor tweaks can be made without drilling new pilot holes and resetting the cabinet door.

Making these adjustments is simple with european style hinges also known as concealed hinges. Watch this video to find out which screws to turn to achieve the perfect fit on your cabinet doors. Adjust the door up or down. If tightening the mounting screws didn t solve the problem and the door is still too high or low look for a screw that adjusts the door up and down.

In this short how to video you will be guided through a step by step process on how to adjust a 3 way hinge to straighten out your cabinet door fronts or.