Over time your kitchen doors can become a bit saggy.
Adjusting kitchen cupboard door hinges.
Hold in position and tighten screws.
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.
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.
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.
Adjusting the doors ensures that they hang correctly and match up evenly with other 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.
Open the cabinet door and loosen the two mounting screws securing the hinge to the cabinet with a phillips screwdriver.
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.
The sideways door overlay a.
Door lifted higher is done by undoing screws 2 and 4 on both hinges and lifting door to required height.
People often assume that this is because the hinges have worn out.
Please note screwing tight is a clockwise turn unscrewing is anticlockwise.
You can adjust most cabinet door hinges quite easily using the screws inside the door.
How to adjust kitchen cupboard door hinges.
Sometimes the cabinet mount comes out of alignment causing the door to not close fully.
This same adjustment is used to align a door with the edge of the cabinet.
Cup hinges made by hettich offer a 3 dimensional adjustment of furniture doors and allow find the correct door position easily.