How To Drill Kitchen Door Hinge Holes

You need to know the thickness of the carcass these are mostly 18 mm thick or 15 mm thick.

How to drill kitchen door hinge holes.

If the side of the door where the hinges are located is on your right this is a right hand hinged door. The jig positions an included carbide tipped bit exactly at the proper position and offset and drills to the perfect depth every time thanks to adept stop collar. Door handles knobs. Once you drill the first holes then you can find out which holes in the template line up the best.

In other words look at a cupboard in your kitchen straight on. Cabinet handles knobs. The concealed hinge jig allows you to drill cup holes for concealed cabinet door hinges sometimes called euro hinges using just a drill. We drill the holes a standard 5mm in from the.

Make sure that you open the door during the drilling process to ensure that you don t end up drilling the wrong side of the door and so you don t drill into the frame of the cabinet behind the door. Working out the top hinge hole locations from a carcass. If you re installing a new hinge you should drill a correctly sized hole on the door using one of our hole cutter attachments you ll need to measure 21 5mm inwards from the edge of the door this leaves the hole 4mm from the edge of the door then the hole will need to be 12mm deep for the hinge cup to sit flush. Doors are usually shorter than the carcass by 2 5 mm at the top and another 2 5 mm at the bottom.

Fit a kitchen worktop. Where you need the holes. Door hinge holes locations from a carcass. Fire door strips seals.

Fit kitchen cabinet doors. This space is for clearance of worktops etc. Almost all kitchens use a standard 35mm concealed hinge so we already know the size of hole to drill.