Hinge Placement For Heavy Doors

Heavy weight ball bearing 5 knuckle or anti friction bearing 3 knuckle.

Hinge placement for heavy doors. Our selection features wide throw spring weld on piano concealed ball bearing strap hinges and so many more. Trace around the hinge. I make most all my doors with through tenon pegged or wedged. Heavy duty hinges are designed for some heavy duty doors and while we may wonder how some of them get hung in the first place these hinges are up for the task of holding them for years to come.

For use on heavy doors of high frequency usage. When a door starts to sag and hang crooked it always does so from the top so the upper part of the doorknob side is where it will start to catch. I prefer the hinges to reference the door itself and generally use the rails to decide top bottom placement and space equally for the middle hinges however many there may be unless the door has other design aspects to consider. The hinge is placed where the door hanging machine puts the hinges.

The distance the hole is set in from the door edge varies depending on door thickness carcase thickness and gap between doors. I was not following historic detail it just made sense. Place as you intended unless the door is ultra heavy then use 4 hinges but yours being oak veneer 3no 75mm ball bearing hinges are what you want. The only time that i vary this is on short doors as it reduces the amount of play at the handle side of the door.

Placement is flush with the outside edge of the cabinet door with both hinges 2 inches from the top and bottom edge. Standard weight plain bearing. Standard weight ball bearing. Here is a chart for placement of hinges on larger doors.

Hinge placement is certainly dictated by the location of the through tenon. This hinge is placed within a cut out in the cabinet door that is made with a router or chisel. Inlay cabinet door hinges. I wonder how much of the current trend in door hanging is dictated by cheap doors cheap hinges and quick and easy installs.

If you have a third hinge typically used for heavy doors it will be placed directly in the middle of the other two hinges this will put it slightly off center. One type of cabinet door hinges that require precise placement is the inlay type of cabinet door hinge. For use on light weight doors of low frequency usage. Due to the variety of door sizes and weights hinges are placed into three groups.

Discussion in carpenters talk started by mrppp mar 20 2018. Of course the flip side is that when cabinet hardware is poorly placed on doors and drawers it can make everything in the room look off wasting your time and your money. Put your hinge in place on the door and the jamb and use a carpenters pencil to carefully trace around the hinge. How to determine hinge spacing on a door.