How To Repair Kitchen Cupboard Door Hinges

Doors with other types of hinges may need rehanging or you may have to install a better latch to keep the door closed.

How to repair kitchen cupboard door hinges.

Repair a cabinet hinge screw hole with a plug. Hinges may start sticking if the door continually gets slammed or closed too hard or when an object gets stuck between the door and. Cabinets made from particleboard work great in utility and laundry rooms and they re fairly inexpensive. 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.

Adjusting cabinet doors with european hinges is as easy as turning a screw or two. I will repair that in a separate instructable once the door hinge is out of the way carefully drill out. A european hinge has many screws that can be loosened or tightened to move the entire door vertically horizontally or in and out. 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.

I know its not glamorous but these kitchen cabinet hinges can be confusing so i run through some kitchen hinge basics. So if you swing the door open too fast the force can rip the hinge screw right out of the cabinet wall. If the door has euro hinges you can easily adjust them with a screwdriver. When your kitchen cabinet door won t close the problem is usually that the door isn t level.

The first thing to do is to get the door and hinges out of the way. 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. Others adjust in two. 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.

On my cabinets the door actually fell off because a chunk of particle board fell off. But it s one i m putting out there because this loose screw problem also happened to a friend of min. Hi everyone it s a really simply home diy repair today. But particleboard has a major weakness it doesn t hold screw threads very well.