How To Repair Kitchen Cupboard Door Hinges

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.

How to repair kitchen cupboard door hinges. 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. But it s one i m putting out there because this loose screw problem also happened to a friend of min. Adjusting cabinet doors with european hinges is as easy as turning a screw or two. The screws on the door do nothing but connect the hinge to the door so all of the adjustments will be made on the part of the hinge attached to the cabinet.

I know its not glamorous but these kitchen cabinet hinges can be confusing so i run through some kitchen hinge basics. Doors with other types of hinges may need rehanging or you may have to install a better latch to keep the door closed. Repair a cabinet hinge screw hole with a plug. Hinges like this one adjust in three directions.

Due to the design of the doors a prefab door would stick out like a sore thumb. A european hinge has many screws that can be loosened or tightened to move the entire door vertically horizontally or in and out. But particleboard has a major weakness it doesn t hold screw threads very well. Others adjust in two.

The first thing to do is to get the door and hinges out of the way. Stubborn cabinet hinges are almost always the result of abuse. When your kitchen cabinet door won t close the problem is usually that the door isn t level. If the door has euro hinges you can easily adjust them with a screwdriver.

Hinges may start sticking if the door continually gets slammed or closed too hard or when an object gets stuck between the door and. So if you swing the door open too fast the force can rip the hinge screw right out of the cabinet wall. 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. I will repair that in a separate instructable once the door hinge is out of the way carefully drill out.