How To Drill Kitchen Door Hinge Holes

For use with a power drill to cut holes in chipboard cabinets.

How to drill kitchen door hinge holes.

In other words look at a cupboard in your kitchen straight on. Working out the top hinge hole locations from a carcass. Cabinet handles knobs. Doors are usually shorter than the carcass by 2 5 mm at the top and another 2 5 mm at the bottom.

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. 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. 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. Fire door strips seals.

Door hinge holes locations from a carcass. Once you drill the first holes then you can find out which holes in the template line up the best. You need to know the thickness of the carcass these are mostly 18 mm thick or 15 mm thick. Fit kitchen cabinet doors.

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

Where you need the holes. If the side of the door where the hinges are located is on your right this is a right hand hinged door. Fit a kitchen drawers.