The most common cause of the fact that the door of your cabinet has sagged and has ceased to work normally, is weakening of loops. To adjust cabinet doors quite perhaps independently, using the minimum set of tools.
It is required to you
- - cross screw-driver;
- - glue;
- - matches;
- - door equalizer;
- - hammer;
- - pencil;
- - ruler;
- - drill.
Instruction
1. Open cabinet and attentively examine loops. As a rule, doors of clothes and kitchen cabinets are fixed on cup loops. One of the parties of loop is installed in special opening on door inside, and the second - is fixed on sidewall, from the inside. This design allows to correct distortions and to adjust the closing mechanism.
2. Check inhaling of four mounting screws on which cabinet doors are fixed. If they were loosened it is necessary to tighten them. For this purpose take matches and make of them wooden traffic jams of the suitable size. Unscrew screws. Accurately miss the mark traffic jams with glue and insert into fixing opening. Establish and hardly tighten bolts.
3. It is possible to adjust distance between the closed door of cabinet and first line of its wall, having weakened the screw located on distant part of loop and having slightly pushed door forward. After that it is necessary to tighten fastening bolt hardly.
4. If loops of your cabinet are strongly worn-out and it is not possible to adjust doors with their help - replace the mechanism with new, having a little changed installation site. For this purpose dismantle old loops, having unscrewed fixing parts by means of the screw-driver. Plan by means of ruler and pencil new position of the loopy mechanism on doors and sidewalls of cabinet. Drill fixing openings and record new loops by means of screws. Check correctness of installation. If necessary, putty old fixing openings.
5. It is possible to level the sagged framed door of kitchen cabinet by means of the door equalizer. Fix the equalizer on door so that it was located on its diagonal, from the top loops to bottom corner. Tighten the equalizer to return to door its rectangular shape. It is necessary to consider that this inhaling needs to be made slowly in order that all shifts in bindings happened evenly. Strengthen connections of door, having established angular couplers from its inside or having hammered wood nails.