Fitting Hinges To Kitchen Cupboard Doors

This is a pretty easy step.

Fitting hinges to kitchen cupboard doors.

We ll show you how to put on the hinges and attach the doors to cabinets. Now that the old hinge has been removed and the 35mm hole has been drilled to the proper depth you re ready to install the new soft close cabinet door hinges. Installing hinges and doors on a flat pack kitchen is an easy job when you know how to do it. How to fit or replace a kitchen hinge we take a look at the things you need to know when fitting or replacing a concealed hinge in your kitchen cupboard.

I ll be sharing my experience on these very soon but haven t bought. The hinges are not supplied as standard with screws but kitchen door workshop sell the 3 1 2 mm diameter by 15mm long screws on our website. Fit the cup of the hinge into the hole so the screwholes are flush against the surface of the cabinet door. The hinge cup refers to the convex cup like part of the concealed hinge that goes inside of the bored hole in the door.

Now pre drill the pilot hole with a 2mm pilot hole taking care not to drill through the face of the door. We also explain how to get your doors sitting perfectly using the internal adjustment screws on the hinges. Install hinge into cabinet door. As long as the hole has been drilled properly the soft close hinge should drop into place with a little coaxing.

If you don t have pre cut holes or you are making your own kitchen doors you can buy a hinge cutter like these. Fix the hinge into the door. Mark and pre drill the holes and fix the hinge into the door.