After you have finished hanging your new cabinet doors there are a few final steps to achieve the finished look you want.

The first finishing touch is to install the rubber, sound suppressing bumpers which were included with your hinges.
Apply two bumpers per door on the side opposite the hinges, one at the top and one at the bottom.

That final step is the door alignment process.

The Blum, self closing, inserta hinge has the flexibility to allow easy, three axis adjustment of your cabinet doors.
Using this adjustment capability will allow you to adjust your cabinet doors and achieve a finished look that would make a professional cabinet maker proud.

Notice the elongated slots in the Mounting Plate. These slots allow for vertical adjustment. The two screws on the hinge body (the part the mounting plate is attached to) allow for inandout adjustment and leftright adjustment.

The vertical adjustment is made by loosening the Mounting Plate which is attached with two screws to the faceframe. Loosening the screws in the mounting plate allow vertical movement of 5/32inch, or 4mm. Vertical adjustment allows the doors to perfectly align along the bottom. This adjustment will compensate for small drilling errors when attaching the Mounting Plates.

On the hinge, the screw farthest from the cabinet door adjusts the inout, or the distance between the door and faceframe. Inout adjustment range is 3/16 inches or 5mm and is used to compensate for the thickness of sound reducing rubber bumpers.

The screw closest to the cabinet door adjusts leftright adjustment with a range of 3/32 inches or 2mm. This adjustment allows for the doors to have the tops and the bottoms independently moved to the left or right. This adjustment insures that the gap between adjoining doors can be perfectly set.

Now we'll demonstrate the inout movement to compensate for the thickness of the rubber bumpers. Make small adjustments while alternating between the top hinge and the bottom hinge until each side of the door sits an equal distance from the faceframe.

The process is similar for the leftright adjustment. Just go in small steps until the cabinet door hangs perfectly plumb.

Another recent addition to the Blum Hinge line is the Soft Closing adaptor.
This adaptor, when snapped on the back of the Blum Hinge will softly close your cabinet door over the final 30degrees of the doors arc.

Notice how abruptly the hinge snaps into the closed position. With a door attached the movement is far less abrupt, but still strong enough to snap the door closed during the final 30degrees of the arc.

Now, with the Soft Closing adaptor attached to the hinge, see how the closing function is slowed to a controlled and constant action. On doors under 40inches high only need one Soft Closing attachment. On taller doors, two Soft Closing adaptors are recommended.

Blum has developed a truly versatile and adjustable hinge, and with the Soft Closing adaptor, this system has become the most popular hinge available.