Adjusting Kitchen Cabinet Door Hinges

This is the most common adjustment required.

Adjusting kitchen cabinet door hinges. Use screw 1 to adjust the doors from side to side. Hinges may start sticking if the door continually gets slammed or closed too hard or. Open the cabinet door and loosen the two mounting screws securing the hinge to the cabinet with a phillips screwdriver. You can adjust both the top and bottom hinge to move the doors closer together or further apart.

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. Adjusting the doors ensures that they hang correctly and match up evenly with other cabinet doors. Side to side adjustment. This same adjustment is used to align a door with the edge of the cabinet.

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. Using a phillips screwdriver you can tighten or loosen the screws moving the cabinet up and down side to side or in and out. Watch this video to find out which screws to turn to achieve the perfect fit on your cabinet doors. How to adjust cabinet hinges that won t close.

If your kitchen cabinets have adjustable hinges you may need to tweak them from time to time so the doors will close properly. Sometimes the cabinet mount comes out of alignment causing the door to not close fully. Stubborn cabinet hinges are almost always the result of abuse. 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.

You can adjust most cabinet door hinges quite easily using the screws inside the door. 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. 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. Its this adjustment that moves brings the door closer too or further away from the edge of the cabinet.