How To Adjust Blum Hinges & Align Cabinet Doors - Cabinetdoors.com

After you have finished hanging your new cabinet doors there are a few final steps to achieve the finished look you want.

The first finishing touch is to install the rubber, sound suppressing bumpers which were included with your hinges.
Apply two bumpers per door on the side opposite the hinges, one at the top and one at the bottom.

Now we’re ready to complete the door alignment process.

The Blum, self-closing, inserta hinge has the flexibility to allow easy, three axis adjustment of your cabinet doors.

Using this adjustment capability will allow you to adjust your cabinet doors and achieve a finished look that would make a professional cabinet maker proud.

Remember the elongated slots in the Mounting Plate? These slots allow for vertical adjustment.

The two screws on the hinge body (the part the mounting plate is attached to) allow for in-and-out adjustment and left-right adjustment.

The vertical adjustment is made by loosening the Mounting Plate which is attached with two screws to the face-frame.

Loosening the screws in the mounting plate allow vertical movement of 5/32-inch, or 4mm.

Vertical adjustment allows the doors to perfectly align along the bottom. This adjustment will compensate for small drilling errors when attaching the Mounting Plates.

On the hinge, the screw farthest from the cabinet door adjusts the in-out, or the distance between the door and face-frame.

The In-out adjustment range is 3/16 inches or 5mm and is used to compensate for the thickness of sound reducing rubber bumpers.

The screw closest to the cabinet door adjusts left-right adjustment with a range of 3/32 inches or 2mm.

This adjustment allows for the doors to have the tops and the bottoms independently moved to the left or right, and insures that the gap between double doors can be perfectly set.

Now we'll demonstrate the in-out movement to compensate for the thickness of the rubber bumpers.

Make small adjustments while alternating between the top hinge and the bottom hinge until each side of the door sits an equal distance from the face-frame.

The process is similar for the left-right adjustment. Just go in small steps until the cabinet door hangs perfectly plumb.

This cabinet door adjustment process will allow you to complete the job of hanging new cabinet doors with results any professional cabinet maker would envy.


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