Adjusting Kitchen Cabinet Door Hinges

Make your kitchen cabinets close easier and look better with just a few simple door hinge adjustment tips.

Adjusting kitchen cabinet door hinges.

This same adjustment is used to align a door with the edge of the cabinet. Use screw 1 to adjust the doors from side to side. How to adjust cabinet hinges that won t close. 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.

Hinges may start sticking if the door continually gets slammed or closed too hard or. With traditional hinges only minor tweaks can be made without drilling new pilot holes and resetting the cabinet door. Making these adjustments is simple with european style hinges also known as concealed hinges. Using a phillips screwdriver you can tighten or loosen the screws moving the cabinet up and down side to side or in and out.

Stubborn cabinet hinges are almost always the result of abuse. 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. 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. 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.

Side to side adjustment. You can adjust both the top and bottom hinge to move the doors closer together or further apart. This is the most common adjustment required. Adjusting the doors ensures that they hang correctly and match up evenly with other cabinet doors.

Turning the screw in a clockwise direction moves the door closer to the edge of the cabinet. 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. Adjust the door up or down. If your kitchen cabinets have adjustable hinges you may need to tweak them from time to time so the doors will close properly.

You can adjust most cabinet door hinges quite easily using the screws inside the door.