How To Repair Kitchen Cabinet Door Hinge Holes

Self closing and soft close hinges are two types of adjustable cabinet hinges.

How to repair kitchen cabinet door hinge holes. Therefore if your cabinet door is sagging not closing properly or has a large gap near the hinge the fix is as easy as grabbing a screwdriver and adjusting the. If your door is crooked not square with the cabinet fix that first then raise or lower it to the same height as adjacent doors. Repair a cabinet hinge screw hole with a plug. Adjusting cabinet doors with european hinges is as easy as turning a screw or two.

My favourite tools including the multitool. If the cup hole is off the cabinet company should give you a new door. Cabinets made from particleboard work great in utility and laundry rooms and they re fairly inexpensive. Showing a little trick of the trade the roads take their toll on hinges.

A quick simple video tutorial howing how we drill our kitchen doors with the hinge drilling kit to fit standard 35mm kitchen hinges. So if you swing the door open too fast the force can rip the hinge screw right out of the cabinet wall. Others adjust in two. I will repair that in a separate instructable once the door hinge is out of the way carefully drill out the hole where the screw used to be.

Due to the design of the doors a prefab door would stick out like a sore thumb. Through amazon influencer s. On my cabinets the door actually fell off because a chunk of particle board fell off. Hinges like this one adjust in three directions.

But particleboard has a major weakness it doesn t hold screw threads very well. If the door functions correctly with only two hinges the hinge you removed is probably faulty.