Measuring Cabinets for New Cupboard Doors

http://fixmycabinet.com Professional advice on measuring for new kitchen or bathroom cabinet doors. Detailed instructions on how to measure for cupboard doors.

Steps Determining Sizes:
1) Determine what the overlay of your hinge style is
2) Measure the inside opening of your cupboard
3) Add the overlay size for "each" door
4) Divide by two for double door cabinet
5) Subtract one eight of an inch

Illustration:

For a twenty seven inch inside opening, two door cabinet with half inch overlay hinges, the door order sizes would be thirteen and seven eights.

Twenty seven plus one inch (2-1/2" overlays) is equal to twenty eight. 28 divided by two would be 14-less one eight equals 13-7/8" cupboard door sizes.

When measuring single door cupboards you still add the overlay and deduct one eight.

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[tnumc]

He also never addresses the height of doors and whether a crown molding is on top of the rail or onthe faceframe and how to make correct measurements. Nor does he address hinge placement.

[tnumc]

His math is not correct for a single door. He makes no allowance for an overlay on the width of the door opposite the hinges. he should double the overlay and then deduct 1/8th.....

[TheBobkat3]

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