Adjusting Kitchen Cabinet Door Hinges

Adjusting the doors ensures that they hang correctly and match up evenly with other cabinet doors.

Adjusting kitchen cabinet door hinges.

Make your kitchen cabinets close easier and look better with just a few simple door hinge adjustment tips. This is the most common adjustment required. 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. Watch this video to find out which screws to turn to achieve the perfect fit on your cabinet doors.

Using a phillips screwdriver you can tighten or loosen the screws moving the cabinet up and down side to side or in and out. 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. How to adjust cabinet hinges that won t close. Adjust the door up or down.

If there is no separate screw for this function loosen the two mounting screws on both hinges adjust the cabinet door to the desired height and re tighten the screws. Side to side adjustment. 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. Hinges may start sticking if the door continually gets slammed or closed too hard or.

Its this adjustment that moves brings the door closer too or further away from the edge of the cabinet. If your kitchen cabinets have adjustable hinges you may need to tweak them from time to time so the doors will close properly. With traditional hinges only minor tweaks can be made without drilling new pilot holes and resetting the cabinet door. You can adjust both the top and bottom hinge to move the doors closer together or further apart.

Making these adjustments is simple with european style hinges also known as concealed hinges. 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. 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. Use screw 1 to adjust the doors from side to side.

Stubborn cabinet hinges are almost always the result of abuse.