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.

This tutorial should work for any holes in wood mdf plywood or even cardboard. Adjusting cabinet doors with european hinges is as easy as turning a screw or two. Through amazon influencer s. Various screws on the hinge can be loosened or tightened in order to change the position of the door.

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. Due to the design of the doors a prefab door would stick out like a sore thumb. If the cup hole is off the cabinet company should give you a new door. 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.

My favourite tools including the multitool. Repair a cabinet hinge screw hole with a plug. Cabinets made from particleboard work great in utility and laundry rooms and they re fairly inexpensive. If the door functions correctly with only two hinges the hinge you removed is probably faulty.

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. In this video i show you how i repaired a common problem that people have had with replacing their hinges on their cabinet doors and not having the holes li. Others adjust in two.

On my cabinets the door actually fell off because a chunk of particle board fell off. But particleboard has a major weakness it doesn t hold screw threads very well.