Adjusting Kitchen Cabinet Door Hinges
Open the cabinet door and loosen the two mounting screws securing the hinge to the cabinet with a phillips screwdriver.
Adjusting kitchen cabinet door hinges. Turn the adjusting screws clockwise with a screwdriver in each set of hinges to move the door closer to the edge of the cabinet. Two screws located at the top and bottom of the hinge mount the hinge to the cabinet. 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.
Step 2 adjust the cabinet mount so it is flush with the cabinet facing and retighten the screws. Cabinet door hinge you can adjust most cabinet door hinges quite easily using the screws inside the door. Sometimes the cabinet mount comes out of alignment causing the door to not close fully. Use the horizontal adjusting screw to adjust a door side to side.
How to adjust cabinet hinges that won t close. Stubborn cabinet hinges are almost always the result of abuse. The most common adjustment you need to make is between two adjoining doors. Turn these screws clockwise to make sure the door is secure.
Adjusting the doors ensures that they hang correctly and match up evenly with other cabinet doors. Adjust the door up or down. Either moving them closer together or further apart. Open the cabinet door and look at the part of the hinge attached to the cabinet box.
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. Use screw 1 to adjust the doors from side to side. Using a phillips screwdriver you can tighten or loosen the screws moving the cabinet up and down side to side or in and out. You can adjust both the top and bottom hinge to move the doors closer together or further apart.
Hinges may start sticking if the door continually gets slammed or closed too hard or. Turn them counterclockwise to move the door further away from the edge of the cabinet.