Fitting Hinges Kitchen Cupboard Doors

This is a pretty easy step.

Fitting hinges kitchen cupboard doors. Mark and pre drill the holes and fix the hinge into the door. The first thing you should consider is the number of hinges that you ll need for your door some larger doors may require up to 5 hinges to open properly the diagram featured here shows you the recommended number of hinges based on the size and weight of your door. Fit the cup of the hinge into the hole so the screwholes are flush against the surface of the cabinet door. Fix the hinge into the door.

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. Now pre drill the pilot hole with a 2mm pilot hole taking care not to drill through the face of the door. Install hinge into cabinet door. 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.

When using heavy duty hinges. As long as the hole has been drilled properly the soft close hinge should drop into place with a little coaxing. Use a power drill to drive wood screws into the screw holes so they re securely attached. The hinges for flat pack cupboard doors come in two sections the first screws on to the door and the second screws on to the cabinet.

The hinge cup refers to the convex cup like part of the concealed hinge that goes inside of the bored hole in the door.