When ordering a kitchen set, we hope that it will serve us long years withstand multiple openings and closings. That's why it's so important to choose quality fittings and especially door hinges. Not so long ago, Soviet industry produced furniture, on which only hinges with a four-link hinge were installed.

The modern hardware market is represented by a huge range of hinges for fastening doors. This is due to the fact that designers are inventing new forms of facades and their attachment to the headset.

Kinds

Today manufacturers offer more than ten various kinds hinges for kitchen cabinets. This is from the simplest "frogs" to loops with closers of various complicated designs.

Different hinges for doors are attached in different ways.

• Laid on loop or frog loop. It is a four-link articulated mechanism. It firmly presses the door, allows you to open it 90 or 165 degrees. This type of loop is the most common. It can be found on almost any kitchen set, where there is swing doors. Such hinges allow you to completely close the body of the furniture on which they are attached.

• Half overlay. It allows you to partially cover the body of the headset. Its structure has a slight bend, due to which a gap is formed between the doors of the cabinet, fixed to one rack, which allows you to open both at the same time without problems.

• Internal. Outwardly, it is very similar to the semi-consignment note. But its application is different. The inner hinge is installed when it is necessary to place the headset doors inside the box.

• Inverse. Allows you to open the cabinet door 180. In this case, the door rises flush with the box.

• corner. By its name it is clear that it sets the doors at an angle. This is necessary for corner boxes. Standard hinges of this category come with an installation angle of 175,135,90,45 and 30. But there are also non-standard corner hinges.

• Mezzanine. Serves for a canopy of horizontally opening doors of boxes. At the core of this type hinges lies a spring.

• Piano. Rarely used in modern furniture due to its unreliability. It is used mainly for book tables, for attaching folding tabletops.

• Card loop. In fact, this is the same piano loop, only shorter. It is often used in retro-style furniture, for this they make figured execution of these loops, or give them the shape of a butterfly.

• Secret. It has two plates, with the help of which horizontal facades are attached, falling down. They got their name for their use in secretaries. Similar to a piano loop.

• adit. Mounted on cabinets adjacent to the wall.

• Card. With their help, folding facades are attached. Such hinges have the ability to fix the cabinet sash. They are attached from the end to the door and the box and allow you to open the structure by 180. Card hinges are very popular on folding tables.

• Reverse loop. Allows you to open the doors 180 degrees and return back, as at the entrance to the supermarket.

• Heel. Fastened to the corner of the facade. It can go deep into the sash, but are only suitable for light doors. Therefore, its use is very limited.

Also, hinges differ in their application in certain materials. For glass, plastic, fiberboard, different loops are needed.

There are also two types of hinges that differ in installation. Slide-on are standard hinges and clip-on are instant hinges. Clip-on hinges reduce installation time by up to 60%, due to the collapsible hinge, which has two parts that snap together.

Another type of loop for kitchen furniture- these are loops with a driver. Their price is much higher, but it justifies itself. First, it's convenient. They pushed the door, and it closed further by itself. Secondly, it preserves the condition of the furniture. Since the door closers themselves regulate the closing force of the door, thereby maintaining both the facades and the box itself in their original state. Thirdly, they prevent the sound of slamming doors without irritating the nervous system.

How to install

Overhead installation door hinges on kitchen cabinets - the process is simple. But still it requires a little knowledge and skills.

The tool you will need when installing door hinges:

• pencil;
• ruler;
• drill;
• cutter;
• screwdriver;
• self-tapping screws.

First, mark the placement of the hinge on the door. In order to embed the hinge in the door, you need to drill a hole. To do this, the center of the circle is marked, in which the cup of the furniture loop will be installed. The number of hinges on the door must be at least two and depends on the weight of the door and its dimensions. The distance between the hinges must be at least 45 cm, from the top edge of the door - approximately 10 cm, from the side edge - 2.1 cm. To facilitate the work, you need to make a template in the form of a rectangle with the appropriate dimensions. Then you don't have to measure the distance data for each loop, and there will be less chance of making a mistake.

Now drill the hole. To do this, install a cutter with a diameter of 35 mm in a drill and make a hole 1.25 cm deep. Moreover, if your facade has a pattern with a recess on the outer part, then the depth of the hole should be reduced by a couple of millimeters to exclude the possibility of making a hole through.

Now you need to hang the door on the box.

When you begin to fasten the door, it must be placed 2 mm below and 1 mm to the side of the edge, so that later the facade can be easily adjusted. At the end, the loop is screwed to the box with screws.

Mounting fasteners on the doors and sides of cabinets is not an easy process. From correct installation hinges depends on the balance of the leaves, their trouble-free operation for a long time. How to install hinges on a cabinet with your own hands can be found in this material.

Mounts installed on a large furniture , are semi-mechanical elements , which are responsible for opening the valves. Much depends on the material and thickness of the doors, so what the hinges are made of is also important.

The hinges must withstand standard loads.

For installation most often used overhead devices with four hinges, the so-called frogs. Such mounts convenient for any design involving hinged doors - wardrobe or kitchen cabinet, other types furniture.

Metal parts are made of durable alloys that are resistant to corrosion and mechanical deformation.

Furniture hinges are divided into several types, depending on how they are attached:

• H overlays;
• P half overhead;
• In deposit;
• And inverted;
• Royal;
• Patch;
• Sh tolnye, etc.

Kinds furniture hinges.

for closet often used overhead structures with cup bases, which are connected to the panel using self-tapping screws. Mechanical liners with a "shoulder" are inserted into these bases and fixed on the door and side panel.

Such fasteners are quite reliable and durable, because they have a reinforced connection with the planes.

Depending on the type closet and its dimensions, as well as the material chosen suitable look connecting parts. Some elements used exclusively for classic furniture, where all the details must match the style. For ordinary wardrobes choose standard overhead and semi-overhead mounts.

For installation on sashes, it is necessary to use certified industrial products - this is a guarantee of durability and long service life of furniture and its individual parts.

Preparing for installation

1. Before starting work, it is necessary to prepare a set of tools and materials for furniture . Be sure to have a screwdriver on hand, a drill with the appropriate nozzles, a simple pencil, crayon, ruler or tape measure. You will also need screws of the right size (usually sold with hinges) and self-tapping screws of a certain section.
   

   

   Tools for installing hinges.

2. When installing fasteners, you must consider the material you are dealing with and its structure. For loose or fibrous wooden panels different types of fasteners and fixing methods are used. Glass surfaces also require a special approach. Two are mainly used mounts - above and below. If the sash weighs a lot or exceeds a meter in length, then for reinforcement, you can add another part in the center. When exceeding 9 kg, the door is equipped with additional hinges - they are added for every 5 kg of weight. For kitchen cabinets, two hinges are usually used, for large items - from three.
   

   

   The maximum number of fasteners that can be placed on the door with a large length and weight of 20 kg is 5 pieces.

3. From top and bottom internal corners doors must be measured at least 10 cm, otherwise the sash may “loose” over time, and the screws will come out of the grooves.
   

   

   You can not place the hinges at the level of the shelves - the door will not close.

4. Before starting installation fasteners must be marked. This will help connect elements much more accurate.
   

   

   Use a pencil or thin crayon.

5. The average length of the indent from the edge of the sash closet to the center of the loop is 2.2 cm.
   

   

   This distance is for standard mounts.

6. Before installing the hinges on the door closet wipe surfaces. Mark the places of future connections with a sharp nail or awl.
   

   

   Preparing furniture for the installation of fasteners does not tolerate fuss. It depends on it right job doors.

Carefully check all parameters of the sashes closet , shelf arrangement, etc. You can make a preliminary sketch.

Installation of fasteners

cabinet doors pre-try on the sidewalls to make accurate markings. Initial installation stage loops - drilling holes for attaching cups.

It is not always convenient to make hinges in the vertical position of the door. This will potentially reduce the accuracy of the connection.

Lay the sash on a flat surface, fixing it. Drill holes for the cup with a drill and cutter. It is important not to make recesses too large, 1.2 cm is enough. Insert the cups into the holes and screw the screws into the door part of the fixture.

It is necessary that they enter the grooves evenly, without distortion, otherwise the door will not be fixed correctly.

For installation connecting parts, position the drill vertically - any tilt will make the work of poor quality, chips may appear, due to which the mount will not hold securely.The striker on the side of the product can also be installed in the vertical position of the panel, having previously marked the joints.

When drilling, the drill also needs to be kept very level.

If overhead parts are used, then they are made “deaf” so that they do not spread during connection and assembly. Such fasteners should not have gaps and distortions.When connecting the sash and side panel, use the help.

Together, the work process will be more convenient, better and more accurate.

Installing the fittings on glass doors requires special care and attention. For such sashes, special fasteners are purchased. On the side of the sidewall you will need holes that are drilled with a drill.

The glass sheet is fixed with clamps.

Alignment and adjustment

Furniture fixtures need adjustment. For this, in the process installations check their fixation in depth and distance. You can do this with the horizontal or vertical position of the parts. closet. After assembling the furniture all preliminary calculations will turn into a result, so it is important to spend more time on the markup and connection parameters in advance.

When choosing, you must first of all pay attention to the strength of the product, it must serve throughout the entire life of the furniture.

After installing the fasteners on the cabinet doors it is necessary to carefully try on the sashes to the sidewalls so that they match exactly. Mark the joints with a pencil. Fix the door and do fixing work on both sides. It is important that the accuracy of all details closet was one hundred percent. Finish assembly and check the work.

When opening and closing for the first time, the sashes may move somewhat tight if the hinges have not yet been lubricated and developed.

After attaching the hinges to the cabinet finished, it is recommended to drop a little machine oil inside the mechanism. Then wipe the surface with an absorbent cloth.

Check that all elements are working properly.

for closet from chipboard is better take wide loops, as the base material may crumble.

The better all the elements of the assembled furniture, the more reliable their operation will be.

Putting hinges on the door closet , do not forget that after a while the sashes can sag under their own weight, especially if they often remain open. Therefore, it is necessary to periodically strengthen the hinges by tightening the screws. In modern mounts, this is easy to do - there is an additional recess in the oval part.

Try to debug the parts carefully so as not to loosen the grooves.

It is also necessary to lubricate the hinges from time to time. closet so that they do not rust or creak. Adjusting fasteners , it is necessary to fix not only the screws connecting the cup or bar, but also the closer parts. The mechanical part can wear out from operation. Therefore, it is important to have 2-3 spare elements in order to replace a broken part with them. About the "drawdown" says a skew, a loose cover. Work is carried out more often in rooms with uneven floors and high humidity.

If the adjustment does not help, it is worth replacing the old parts with new ones.

When changing fixtures on used furniture, you need to look at how suitable they are for it. It may be necessary, due to the loosening of the grooves, to change the location of the new loops.

After adjustment, check for gaps, tightness of the doors when closing, overall mobility and evenness of the sash along the axis.

When installing several fasteners, it should be calculated so that their location does not fall on the internal elements of the furniture.

VIDEO: How to quickly and easily install furniture hinges.

VIDEO: How to adjust cabinet doors.

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How to choose, install and configure hinges for the kitchen

Modern hinges for kitchen furniture from similar devices, for example, for a bedroom, should be distinguished by high reliability, and most importantly, maintainability. After all, the load on them is many times greater. Let's see what types of mechanisms can be found now, plus I'll show you how to install and adjust the hinges on the doors of the kitchen cabinet with your own hands.

Types of kitchen awnings

Now furniture fittings of this kind are represented by a number of convenient mechanisms, but all these devices were developed for their own type of cabinets.

Illustrations	Recommendations
	Laid on loop-frog. This suspension is also called a four-link or four-hinged suspension. Such fittings have been put on kitchen furniture for more than 50 years and it has established itself as quite reliable. The mechanism allows you to open the doors in 2 fixed positions: 90º and 165º.
	Semi-overlaid suspension. This mechanism is designed for facades in which 2 doors are attached to one rack (on both sides). A slight bend on one of the parts of the structure allows you to open both doors located on the same central axis.
	Inner loop. In part, internal hinges for kitchen cabinets are similar to semi-overhead ones, but they are designed for doors recessed into the cabinet box.
	Inverse design. These mechanisms allow you to fully open the doors. As the instructions promise, the sash will be able to open 180º.
	Corner structures. As the name implies, such hinges are designed for corner kitchen cabinets, where the facades are located end to end. In this case, the corner canopy opens only 30º and 45º and does not allow the doors to scratch the body of the adjacent cabinet.
	Intersection connectors. Designed for doors consisting of 2 sections. Depending on the type of construction, they can open 30º, 45º, 90º, 135º and 175º.
	Mezzanine canopy. It can be mounted both from below and above the mezzanine section, but all these structures are designed exclusively for swinging doors in a horizontal plane. Usually, a spring is built into the mezzanine hinges, something like a closer.
	piano loops. On the this moment rarely used as kitchen accessories. This is due to the fact that these suspensions, no matter how you mount them, you can still see them from the side.
	card loop. It differs from the piano only in size and more elegant appearance. Often they are placed on kitchen sets in vintage style from natural wood.
	Hidden or hidden loops. One of the latest hits in furniture fittings. They attract with their invisibility and, as the manufacturers promise, with exceptional reliability. The price for 1 branded hidden canopy starts from 1200 rubles, so such fittings are installed only on VIP class kitchen sets.
	Card hangers. This type of mechanisms was developed for mobile countertops for miniature kitchens. Hinges allow you to fix the tabletop on the front of the furniture or just on the wall. If necessary, such a tabletop rises and is fixed by lamber canopies in a horizontal position, and after use it returns back.
	Heel loops. Such suspensions are mounted on the horizontal planes of the cabinets, at the top and bottom points. Although there are heel loops for any furniture, most often they are placed on glass doors.

Almost all modern models canopies now come with a built-in or overhead door closer. As practice has shown, for kitchen furniture, a closer is not a luxury, but an urgent need.

Installation and configuration of awnings

Naturally, each type of loop is mounted and configured according to its own rules. We will take as a basis the installation technology of the most common four-hinged mechanism.

How to embed a furniture canopy

• The first thing any installation of such mechanisms begins with is markup. In order to facilitate this process for home craftsmen, decent manufacturers attach paper templates to their product. One template for marking on the cabinet doors, and the second for marking on the cabinet wall;
• You just need to attach this paper to right place and with an awl, mark the drilling points;
• The distance from the top and bottom points to the nearest canopy is about 70–120 mm, it all depends on the size of the furniture, and you need to measure it with inside cabinet;

• To embed the mechanism, we need to drill a round hole in the door blind hole, the canopy mechanism will be placed there. For these purposes, there is a special drill, among professionals it is called the Forstner drill. You can’t do without it, since it’s inexpensive;

• In most mechanisms, the bowl diameter is 35 mm with a depth of 12 mm. Under these dimensions, you need to take a drill. When buying, pay attention to whether the Forstner drill is equipped with a limiter so that you do not drill through furniture through inexperience;
• The technology itself is extremely simple, after you have marked and marked the installation site, insert the drill into the drill and drill;
• Then the structure is screwed into place. Some craftsmen recommend drilling holes at the entry points of self-tapping screws with a thin drill. The option is acceptable, but there is a high probability of drilling through the furniture, so I just drill deeper with a good awl, and then screw a self-tapping screw into this point.

A few words about setting

• Horizontally, the mechanism is adjusted by the screw closest to the door;
• To move the door vertically, you need to release 2 fixing screws on the cabinet wall;
• The far screw fixes the mechanism after adjustment and adjusts in depth.

Output

Almost all the mechanisms that I have described are relevant for self installation for kitchen furniture. The photo and video in this article provides recommendations for setting up different types mechanisms. If you have any questions, write in the comments, I will try to help.

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The mechanism for opening x cabinets is the most vulnerable point in the design of kitchen furniture. Therefore, the choice of reliable and durable hinges is no less important than the choice of other high-quality materials for the kitchen.

And what loops are needed for kitchen cabinets? The choice depends on their purpose, method of attachment and design.

The furniture hinge is attached to the body and the door, which serves as a means of connecting two structural parts and a mechanism for free opening / burrowing at a specific angle.

Accessible, understandable and visually about the types that will be discussed below, you can see in the video review:

What are hinges for kitchen cabinets?

Among the entire range by design there are only 2 types.

1. Hinged (piano and card). These appeared the very first, they were used in the last century, but they are practically not used in modern headsets. But when assembling vintage furniture retro or vintage they may just be needed.
2. Four-hinged. In their design, they differ from the previous conventional ones in that they can be adjusted in several places, providing free opening / closing of doors.

Four-hinged are considered more modern and reliable.

Four-hinged device

Hinges according to the position of the door and the method of fastening

There are four-hinged:

• semi-overhead.

Semi-overlay allows only partially blocking the body of the furniture set. It has a slight bend, which forms a gap between the leaves, which allows you to open two adjacent doors at the same time. It is used in intersectional fastenings of kitchen furniture, for example, in a three- or two-door pedestal;

• overhead (external) are a hinged mechanism that allows you to open the sash 900, actually 105 degrees.

They are most often used for fastening doors in kitchen sets. They allow you to tightly close the doors of cabinets and sections, overlapping the case on both sides, and serve for a long time without breakage;

• internal (insert).

They have a large bend, which contributes to the removal of the inset door outside the case when opening. It is rarely used for fixing heavy doors on chipboard cabinets. They allow, as it were, to drown the doors in the closed form behind the cabinet body;

• galleries (straight) are intended for fastening the front part to the sidewall of the false panels.

Often used in corner cabinets under the sink.

corner

For installation in corner floor and wall cabinets loops are needed to allow different angle open doors.

Hinges depending on the opening angle and purpose in the table:

Worthy of special attention carousel (inverse) loops. Due to their design, they provide door opening up to 180 degrees.

They are not used so often in corner cabinets.

For cabinets with vertical opening

These are mezzanine loops. Their main element is a spring, they are installed on the doors of hanging cabinets with vertical opening.

For glass doors

Depending on the material on which they are installed, one can separately distinguish those that are mounted on glass surfaces. Their main difference is the presence of a special decorative overlay that masks the loop. True, at home it is quite difficult to drill a hole for them.

Loops for glass doors also divided by opening method, angle, etc.

Hinges can be equipped additional elements- closers. Closers can be built-in or come separately in the kit.

With closer

With the help of a closer, the use of furniture will be more comfortable, silent, and they also help to extend the life of furniture cases, because. doors will close smoothly.

How many hinges do I need to buy to securely install the door?

To independently install the hinges on the doors, first of all, you need to determine the required number of devices. It depends on the dimensions and weight of the hinged door, as well as the material from which it is made.

How many pieces you need to buy depending on the weight and height of the facade

In order for the hinges to fully cope with the task assigned to them - to ensure the free opening / closing of the doors without squeaks and displacements, you need to install them correctly. Usually, instructions are always attached to the product.

The video will also help you understand the installation principle: