Fitting Hinges Kitchen Cupboard Doors

As long as the hole has been drilled properly the soft close hinge should drop into place with a little coaxing.

Fitting hinges kitchen cupboard doors.

Install hinge into cabinet door. When using heavy duty hinges. The hinge cup refers to the convex cup like part of the concealed hinge that goes inside of the bored hole in the door. Now that the old hinge has been removed and the 35mm hole has been drilled to the proper depth you re ready to install the new soft close cabinet door hinges.

This is a pretty easy step. Drilling the hinge hole on the door. Fix the hinge into the door. The hinges are not supplied as standard with screws but kitchen door workshop sell the 3 1 2 mm diameter by 15mm long screws on our website.

Start by disconnecting the two sections of the hinge and screw the door section onto the pre drilled hole. Now pre drill the pilot hole with a 2mm pilot hole taking care not to drill through the face of the door. Mark and pre drill the holes and fix the hinge into the door. The hinges for flat pack cupboard doors come in two sections the first screws on to the door and the second screws on to the cabinet.

Fit the cup of the hinge into the hole so the screwholes are flush against the surface of the cabinet door.