Spent 6 hours trying to level a single cabinet door in my kitchen

I was hanging new shaker cabinets in my kitchen last Saturday and one door just would not sit right. I kept adjusting the hinge screws back and forth, thinking I had it perfect, then closing it would show a 1/4 inch gap on the bottom. After fiddling for what felt like forever, my buddy walked over and pointed out the cabinet box itself was twisted a bit from the wall being out of plumb. Had to shim the whole box 3/16 of an inch before the door finally hung straight. Anyone else ever chase a problem like that only to realize the frame was the real issue?

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oliver_mitchell7d ago

Wait, are you really saying the door was the easy fix and the cabinet box was the hard part? I've done a ton of cabinet work and honestly, I feel like people blame the wall way too much. 9 times out of 10, those hinge screws just need a tiny tweak or the door itself is warped from the box being stored wrong. Shimmying the whole box seems like a lot of extra work when you probably could've just bent the hinge tab a little with a pair of pliers and called it a day. I guess if the whole kitchen is that crooked then sure, but for one door I'd try everything else first.

riverhill7d ago

Same here, bent hinge tab fixed mine in like two minutes flat.

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