Repair Kitchen Cabinet Door Hinges

Cabinets made from particleboard work great in utility and laundry rooms and they re fairly inexpensive.

Repair kitchen cabinet door hinges.

A reader wants to repair a faulty hinge on a cabinet door. In the corner of the cabinets. Blum clip top 100 degree standard hinges kitchen cabinet cupboard door hinge without blumotion damper 71m2550 made in austria full overlay pack of 2 4 5 out of 5 stars 125 7 49 7. If the door sticks out too far from the cabinet or the hinge side brushes against the cabinet when you open the door adjust the depth screw.

35 mm 105 degree 1 2 in. Door adjustments aren t as easy if you have traditional hinges. Repairing a kitchen cabinet hinge can be a complex operation. The cabinet door might overlap the neighboring door be crooked or sit too far out from the cabinet face.

Due to the design of the doors a prefab door would stick out like a sore thumb. The concealed hinge repair kit for kitchen and bathroom or similar cabinets from gidgit. Style selections 10 pack satin nickel self closing flush cabinet hinge. The first thing to do is to get the door and hinges out of the way.

On my cabinets the door actually fell off because a chunk of particle board fell off. I will repair that in a separate instructable once the door hinge is out of the way carefully drill out. Others require you to tap the door in or out and then tighten the screw. So if you swing the door open too fast the force can rip the hinge screw right out of the cabinet wall.

Some hinges move the door as you turn the depth screw. Designed for a 1 2 in. For pricing and availability. But particleboard has a major weakness it doesn t hold screw threads very well.

All of these issues could interfere with the hinge s self closing ability. Repair a cabinet hinge screw hole with a plug. Http gidgit eu for more info. The doors have three hinges and the.

The same is true for soft close hinges which have a special mechanism such as a weighted bar or a rounded lip on the hinge that prevents the door from slamming shut. I know its not glamorous but these kitchen cabinet hinges can be confusing so i run through some kitchen hinge basics.