Hinges for kitchen cabinets: how to install and adjust

No other furniture so is ignored fittingsAs in kitchen cabinets. Here, a variety of hinges and closers provide convenience and ergonomics of the headset, its durability and an attractive appearance. So that by the choice of working arrangements, their installation and adjustment should be approached very seriously.

Types of furniture hinges

The oldest, still familiar to us from the Soviet times kind of loop - a piano. They are not particularly reliable, but very simple in manufacture and to assemble. However, modern manufacturers for their cabinets they are no longer used, so details on them will not stop, and move on to more advanced options.

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The closest relative of piano hinges differs from them only the metal thickness and a small length. There are two types of performance:

• Collapsible - double-tube;
• Nonseparable - A multi-purpose or (may be installed on either side of the cabinet).

Here, the plate of the hollow cylindrical sleeve must be mounted on one axle on which are rotated freely. They are quite often require lubrication in wet conditions cuisine may rust and irritate their tenants a squeak. To such problems with the hinges were smaller, it is better to establish universal - they are additionally equipped with bearings, so not subject to wear and move very easily.

In the manufacture of furniture fittings card still applies, especially headsets Retro. But modern kits with elements look a bit silly.

"Frog"

It chetyrehsharnirnaya loop, which is attached to the body of the enclosure to a special bar and into the recess on the inner side of the facade is fastened only by its cup. Such modern sheds are characterized by their versatility and relatively high reliability, which is important for kitchen furniture, where the number of operating cycles is very large fittings. However, due to the large number of bolted connections it is necessary from time to time to pull. Loop-Frog allows opening the valves to 90-165 °, but the most important thing is that with the help of the screw can adjust the position of the door in all three planes.

This kind of shelters for cabinets, in turn, further divided into three types:

1. Overhead - standard chetyrehsharnirnye loops that are most often used in furniture units, where only one facade is attached to the wall. After closing the canopy exposes it so that the stand was completely closed.
2. Polunakladnye - on the principle of action do not differ from the standard, but have a curved base. This is done in order to be able to use the doors fixed to one wall of the cabinet and opens like the wings of a butterfly. Here, every facade covers only a half-rack, so that both the canopy should be very carefully regulated.
3. Ins - even more rare form of loops, which are "drawn" in the furniture flap housing.

On the basis of the same with a cup of canopies to create a functional loop with closers. Their design is a bit more complicated due to the built-in into the working of the spring bar. She would not let the door slam, the risk of accidentally nailed hands and gradually closes it itself.

Adjust the position of the facade with respect to the cabinet body can be using any of the loops. The design principle of their work does not change:

• Nearest you screw on the bar bill (shoulder) displaces the door right / left.
• Following increases or decreases the nip of the facade to the body of the enclosure.
• The lower screw on the crosspiece plate spacing helps to regulate the position of the sash vertically.

Scroll through the appropriate screws with a screwdriver on each loop of the facade gradually to the load is distributed more evenly. This approach will help to quickly find the correct position of the door.

angular

Today more and more kitchen sets comes with additional angle modules. For these cabinets need special hinges, which are set at different angles in the range 30-175 °. However, if it's exclusive designer furniture, specifically for its special design can be developed loops.

Complex (carousel)

Also suitable for corner modules, but allows both doors open cabinet synchronously. However, for its normal operation requires the installation of a canopy-transformer, which will take over the double workload of facades. By the way this hardware is applicable and, where for swing flap also hides a drawer.

heel

Today, this kind of primitive loops rare. They are installed in the upper and lower corners of the cabinet, and then they start up front with short pins screwed into it, which work as the same hinged canopies. Apply this kind of hardware is possible only on the wings of light. However, in the case of glass facades it is a good option.

rare design

Some furniture hinges are so narrow "specialization" that they can be used only with some models of cabinets. However, in its place they cope with the tasks better universal fittings.

• Inverse loop allows the flap to open to all 180 °. It is used in some of horizontally oriented facades or extreme modules in the overall series.
• Mezzanine - highly specialized loop intended for hanging of horizontal slats which open upwards.
• Sekreternaya - something between a piano and a mezzanine loops, but for cabinets with hinged facades. It allows installation with a hole or may be used as an invoice.
• GALLERY (deaf or straight) loops have been used in hanging doors extreme number of modules immediately adjacent to the wall. They were the only option for embedded kitchens, where the surface of the wall itself is transformed into furniture "body."

Special features

Despite all the variety of furniture accessories, hanging different loops on the kitchen cabinets almost no difference. Most modern canopies - just variations on a theme chetyrehsharnirnoy frog with a different shape and length of the lever. So in terms of attachment to them applies the standard scheme of work.

To install any chashevuyu loop on the furniture body need to perform a few simple steps:

1. Mark the space for the installation of hardware on a facade. Usually lay about 8 cm at the very edge of the leaf.
2. By cup is drilled in the door recess with a router to a depth of 12-13 mm.
3. After fitting overhang marked points for screws and holes are drilled with a thin drill. Cup sits in his place and firmly fixed.
4. Prepared door with hinges applied screwed to the cabinet frame and exposed by level strictly so as to completely cover the ends.
5. In accordance with the position of the frog body is marked for the installation of the mounting brackets. There will also need to drill holes for fasteners.

It only remains to fasten the response cruciform bar and connect the two parts of the loop, the head of a slot on her shoulder under the head of the fixing screws. Thereafter, to adjust the position of the door by tightening the respective screws, as described above.