Howdens kitchen hinges not lining up

jellyspots

hubby is fitting Tewkesbury kitchen all going well until he has got to fitting the doors. The blum hinges do not line up with the pre drilled holes on the doors. Is this normal??

Many thanks

jellyspots

Anyone have any ideas please?

evokit

Speak to Kitchen DesineR on here - he works for them and sings there praises on all
he should be able to ans you

phill99

Is this on all the doors or just some?

It's not a major issue to redrill the carcasses if you need to.

jellyspots

It's all very well but we have saved hard for this kitchen and why should we have to re drill all the holes ourselves. More time and if we had paid a fitter we would of had to pay them more to do this. Is this normal for a howdens then?

jellyspots

phill99 wrote: »

Is this on all the doors or just some?


It's on all the doors and we have 17 of them!

keystone

Have you loosened the two screws which fix the hinge to the carcass and adjust the position of the hinge?

Have you tried fitting the hinges to the doors first and then to the carcass?

You haven't got things upside down and the wrong way round have you?

Can you post up a pic of the problem?

Cheers

phill99

It's unlikely that all 17 are wrong. Did you get an Installation Manual from Howdens? This gives full instructions and maybe the answer to your problem.

keystone

phill99 wrote: »

It's unlikely that all 17 are wrong. Did you get an Installation Manual from Howdens? This gives full instructions and maybe the answer to your problem.

Its extremely unlikely that all 17 are wrong.

Cheers

CKdesigner

Hi

So its a pre built carcase from Howdens but they don't fit the doors!

jellyspots

keystone wrote: »

Have you loosened the two screws which fix the hinge to the carcass and adjust the position of the hinge?

Have you tried fitting the hinges to the doors first and then to the carcass?

You haven't got things upside down and the wrong way round have you?

Can you post up a pic of the problem?

Cheers

Don't know how to load a picture!

If you look at the metal hinge it's got the straight bit across the top with the holes in to fit the screws into. When you put this metal hinge into the circle in the door you cannot see the Pre drilled holes under the metal hinge If you turn the hinge around a bit you can see one hole but not the other. It seems that either the hinges are incorrect or they have been drilled wrong. Has anyone experienced this before?