Installing Drawer and Door Faces

Phase 1 (Get Materials Ready)

1. Collect all drawer fronts and or doors
2. Inspect fronts for overall quality (i.e, scratch, dents chips, texture)

Phase 2 (Attach)

Door Installation

Installing doors

• Check bench for debris
• Lay a section of foam on the bench just bigger than the cabinet doors
• Lay door face down on foam
• Grab hinges from lower left drawer in bench
• Place hinge in hinge cup hole in door
• Hit hinge with plastic mallet a total of 4 time, alternating sides to drive the hinge flush into the door
• Install bumpers if needed
• Clip hinges into in mounting plates, hooking them from the front of the plate and clipping them into the back

tip

Bumpers can be found in left top drawer of bench

Drawer Installation

Installing drawer fronts

• Assemble drawer box as per specified type of drawer box hardware SOP
• Assemble drawer boxes from the bottom needed drawer box to the top
• One at a time build the drawer box and install in cabinet then attach front as you go from bottom drawer to top. For each drawer front, install the mounting hardware as such:
• Lay a section of foam on the bench just bigger than the cabinet fronts
• Lay the front face down on foam
• Install drawer box mounting hardware (if applicable)
• Install front stabilizer ONLY if the drawer from is wider than 24” (if applicable)
• Install bumpers if needed
• Line up front and click in mounting hardware into the drawer box (if applicable)
• Screw in front stabilizer with #8 x ½” pan head located in the middle right drawer in the bench
• Adjust drawer hardware to 2.5mm gap or 1.25mm gap depending in the other cabinets adjacent to the one being constructed

tip

Bumpers can be found in left top drawer of bench