Step 2 Strategy for Adjusting Door and Drawer Reveals
Step 2 Strategy for Adjusting Door and Drawer Reveals
When adjusting the faces of a long cabinet run, the task can appear a bit confusing, especially since an adjustment to one area can require adjustment to another. Just jumping in without a plan can result in excessive rework. However, utilizing a few simple guidelines will make adjusting door and drawer reveals more manageable.
2.1 Examine the entire cabinet run and identify the necessary adjustments before proceeding. Divide the run into sections and look for the worst conditions. Identify areas that will and will not require adjustment. Identify any fixed fascia parts such as Sink and Cooktop Cabinet false drawers.
2.2 Begin making adjustment at the middle of a cabinet run, not either end.
Adjustments made on one door may require adjustment to adjacent fascia. If this is done across a cabinet run from one side to the other, small errors can be duplicated and even multiplied as an adjustment is carried across the run.
Often this will cause the required adjustment at the end of the run to exceed a hinge or a bracket’ s capacity for adjustment, which will require excess work to redo previous adjustments.
If you begin in the middle of a long cabinet run and work out to each end, these potential errors are not given the opportunity to duplicate as often, minimizing the likelihood of excess work.
2.3 Make the height adjustments first. For wall cabinets, center the hinge side of the door within the height of the cabinet box face. For base cabinets, identify any fixed fascia such as the sink or cooktop false drawer and confirm that it is mounted square.
If there are no fixed fascia, confirm that the top drawer face in the center section of the cabinet run is level. Adjust the height or brackets of any doors or drawers below this area to create an even reveal of 1 / 8” to 3 / 16” between them.
If there are doors below this first drawer, utilize the up-and-down adjustment of the hinges to adjust the height. Keep in mind that the side-to-side hinge adjustment can give the impression that the height of a door is changing when the top and bottom hinges are adjusted in opposite directions. This is not a change in height. Make height adjustments at the hinge side of a door using the up-and-down adjustment on the hinge plates before adjusting in other directions.
2.4 Follow with side to side adjustments. Once the height is established for a door or drawer face, make side-to-side adjustments to even the reveals between them.
2.5 Finish with adjusting the doors to close flat. Make in-and-out adjustment to compensate for slight racking in the cabinet or warpage in the door allowing the door to close flat at the strike.
Complete the adjustments for one section before moving onto the next.
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