Hinges for Kitchen Doors

5lugger

Hi,

Hope one of you kind folk can help me out with the following.

I'm just sprucing up the kitchen and have purchased new solid oak drawer and cabinet fronts from B&Q, the IT range. These are being fitted to old MFI carcasses.

I've already got a fixing jig, for relocating the hinges and these are fine, however the current Salice hinges, which I was intending to re-use have the adjoining screw from hinge to cabinet slightly off centre. The pilot holes for the new cabinet front are centred, and are therefore a few mm out.

Firstly, will using the existing Salice hinges be risky in that the screw might be / work loose as the pilot hole is a few mm out?

Secondly, if I do need to get replacement hinges where's the best place to pick them up. Having already looked about in B&Q, Homebase, Screwfix etc etc. the majority of hinges do not have the screw hole centrally located. Those that I have seen are massively expensive, I'm sure that there is a "money saving expert" option that I've yet to consider.

Any advise or help you could spare the time to give would be gratefully received!!!

dander

I have put B&Q doors on MFI cabinets - I put the hinges in the existing holes in the B&Q doors and moved the bits in the cabinet to match. I found they actually just had to swivel - leave one screw in and swivel up. I reused the existing hinges with no trouble.

5lugger

dander wrote: »

I have put B&Q doors on MFI cabinets - I put the hinges in the existing holes in the B&Q doors and moved the bits in the cabinet to match. I found they actually just had to swivel - leave one screw in and swivel up. I reused the existing hinges with no trouble.

Sorry, perhaps I didn't do the best job of explaining. Current hinges to current cabinet carcasses are fine, I also noticed you could swivel the hinge, but had the jig as a template anyway.

The problem lies with hinge to new cabinet door, where the hinge fits into the door the screw holes do not align. Hence either new hinges, or potentially a slightly bigger screw hole than intended, which I would like to try to avoid!!!

ormus

is this the one?

dander

On mine the "pilot hole" was a barely visible pin !!!!! really, so I just ignored it and put the screws in where the hinges wanted them to be. Sounds as though the doors you've got have got something a bit bigger.

I bought some extra hinges at one point, but if I remember correctly they still didn't line up with the B&Q pilot holes. (There were either from Wilkinsons or Wickes). I wonder if B&Q hinges are the only ones that would line up correctly?

spirit

If it's of any help OP, I've just had a B&Q kitchen put in. I didn't want the standard hinges that came with it.

I wanted soft close hinges so bought those quite cheaply from ebay.

27col

Glue a piece of matchstick in the old hole and then make your new holes exactly where you need them.

5lugger

ormus wrote: »

Those are the ones it looks like I need. The screws in the current hinges are slightly off centre.

ormus

maybe poss to drill the hole in the metal plate bigger and use a larger headed screw?
or a screw with a washer.

5lugger

27col wrote: »

Glue a piece of matchstick in the old hole and then make your new holes exactly where you need them.

I went with this option, and the screw holes just miss, so fortunately no need to purchase new hinges!!!

Thanks all for your help.