Installing Concealed Hinges On Cabinet Doors

Replace your old cabinet hinges with concealed soft close blum overlay hinges and stop cabinet door slamming while hiding your hinges.

Installing concealed hinges on cabinet doors.

You then hold the door in place mark the locations of the screw holes drill pilot holes for the screw with a. As with concealed hinges it s usually best to install these on the doors first. A device called a hinge mark template will help you mark the hole locations accurately for every door. The concealed hinge jig allows you to drill cup holes for concealed cabinet door hinges sometimes called euro hinges using just a drill.

If you re installing the hinges on the back of the door have the 2 sides of the hinges laying on top of each other instead. Mark the door ryan benyi. Insert included screws through the holes in the frame side of the hinge and install with a phillips head screwdriver. Hold the frame side of the hinge up to the center point with the door side of the hinge open and extending straight out beyond the frame.

Drill these just 1 2 inch deep into the door. Then with the right hinges in hand follow the steps below to install them. Concealed cabinet hinges in 9 steps 1. Using the rest of the screws included with the hinge install the door to the cabinet getting it as close as possible to its correct vertical location.

For each door drill 3 holes for each concealed door hinge a large 35 mm hole with 2 offset holes above and below it on the left side 8 mm in diameter for the dowels and screw fasteners. The hinges should sit flush against the outside and inside of the cabinet. This video will show y. Set the euro style hinges in each of the the cup holes and screw them in then use the provided screws to attach them to the frame of your cabinet it s very straight forward there s one hole in the hinge and one screw just line up the door so that the overhang on the top and bottom is even and drill it in place.

The hinges i m using are for frameless cabinets with inset doors. So basically for example if your door is overlay screw it onto the cabinet as close as possible to the door being above and below the inside of the face frame.