Kitchen Cabinet Door Hinge Adjustment

This same adjustment is used to align a door with the edge of the cabinet.

Kitchen cabinet door hinge adjustment. People often assume that this is because the hinges have worn out. Over time your kitchen doors can become a bit saggy. However this is seldom the case and more often its simply that the hinges need adjusting which is quick and easy to do if you follow these few simple steps.

They are fairly easy to adjust if you understand how they work. Loose or badly fitting kitchen cabinet doors are a common problem. Heres how you can adjust your kitchen cabinet doors or cabinet doors in your bathroom closet garage etc to align the doors before putting on cabinet handles.

Kitchen cabinet doors dont always fit perfectly without some adjustments and over time they can become loose or misaligned. Open the door wide so that you can access the hinge. Most cupboards these days use a concealed steel hinge which are sprung so the door stays closed without the need for any catch.

Swing the door all the way open to fully extend the hinge. 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.

Luckily almost all kitchen cabinet doors have a set of screws and hinges. Having a small amount of flex is. If you dont like the way your self closing kitchen cabinet hinges are currently operating you can always adjust them.

Its this adjustment that moves brings the door closer too or further away from the edge of the cabinet. 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 face. This video shows me adjusting.