Hanging Cabinet Doors With Hinges

This is the part where you have to move the door and use your own judgment to align the door straight.

Hanging cabinet doors with hinges.

This will keep the wood from splitting as you chisel out wood to flush mount the hinge. It really is that easy. Overlay these concealed hinges are retrofitable and allow any level diyer to do away with the heavy slamming of cabinet doors. Drive screws into the screw holes on the cabinet.

Always consider hinge placement before installing hinges on any cabinet door. Designed for a 1 1 4 in. Use the screws that came with the hinges or use 6 wood screws. Score all the way around three sides of the hinge.

Use a vise to steady your work as you install hinges. Once the hinges are aligned screw the cabinet side of the hinge to the cabinet with a power drill. Hold the hinge in place as a template and score around it using a utility knife image 2. This video shows the steps from measuring for new cabinet doors how to install blum hinges hanging the cabinet doors on the existing cabinet and finishes.

Affix the hinges to the cabinet using a screwdriver. Once the hinges are attached to the doors we can now attach the door to the cabinet. We used a spacer block to help us get a consistent gap at the bottom of the doors. The hinge is designed to cup the face frame and it s just a matter of position the door drilling pilot holes and attaching the hinge to the face frame.

This comes before the door is hung and standard hinge placement measurements should be used. Have someone help you hang the door.