Video Transcript
Introduction, Tools & Preparation
It's a glorious day here at Cabinet Joint. I'm Justin, and in today's video, I'm going to be showing you how to install door stops for inset cabinets, both in single-door and double-door applications. Let's get right into it.
These are all of the tools that you are going to need. First, you're going to need a drill with a 7/64 bit. You're going to need an impact with a Phillips head bit. We're going to show two ways of installing the door stops, one of which is going to be using our new Cabinet Joint inset jig. You're going to need your door stops and the screws that go with them, a pencil, your regular Phillips bit screwdriver, and a measuring tape. Lastly, you'll need two sets of pliers, which you're going to use to bend the stops in a very specific situation, which I'll show you later in the video.
Installing Door Stoppers - Single Door Cabinets
Now, we're going to be putting the door stoppers on. I'm using our inset scribe jig, and it is so easy to use. You want to line up this edge of the jig with the inner edge of the stile. You also want to line up the bottom of the jig with the back of the face frame. Once you do those things, mark there with your pencil, and now you have where you're going to need to drill in order to install your door stopper.
You can go ahead and do the same thing—just flip your jig over, once again butting it into the back of the face frame and aligning the edge of the jig with the inside edge of the stile. Go ahead and mark it like that. Now you have exactly where you need to put your screw.
If you didn't have this jig, the measurements for that are 5/16" into the cabinet from the back of the face frame and then 9/16" over from the inside edge of the stile.
Now that you have your mark, you can go ahead and drill. This is using a 7/64 bit. You can use a bit that's just a little bit smaller than 1/8". It doesn't need to be exactly 7/64"; it doesn’t matter too much if you drill through the top because no one's ever going to see it. However, you want to be mindful that you're not just drilling randomly and making unnecessary holes.
Once you have your holes drilled, you can go ahead and put a screw through the elongated hole in your stopper. Because it's elongated, it has some adjustability—you can loosen the screw and adjust the door back or forward if you need to.
Now that we have these stoppers in place, we can go ahead and install our door once again. When we close it, you can see that the stoppers do what they're supposed to do: they stop the door. The goal with an inset door is for it to be in the same plane as the face frame.
Now, if you look over here, you can place a level on your door. Truthfully, you don’t always need to place a level as you're doing this—just get it to your eye’s content. It doesn’t need to be exact, but if I place the level here, I can see that it is dead on right now. It is flat all the way and in the same plane, so I know I don’t need to adjust that door stop at all. It is in the perfect spot.
Installing Upper Door Stoppers Without a Flat Surface
Now, we're going to install the door stop in the bottom cavity, but you're going to run into an issue where you don't have a flat surface on the upper part to install a door stop. You’ll encounter situations like this with two-tiered cabinets, sink cabinets, and similar setups. I’m going to show you a workaround so you can still have a door stop there without attaching it to a flat surface that’s directly in line with your stile.
When you don’t have a flush top to mount your door stop to, the workaround is to take your door stop and use two pairs of pliers to bend it so that it ends up being straight. From there, you can go ahead and install it to the back of your rail.
To install it to the back of your rail, the same measurements apply—just shifted. It’s going to be 5/16" down from the top of your shelf and then 9/16" over from the edge of your stile. Instead of taking those measurements manually, you can use our jig: butt it up to the bottom of the shelf and align the side with the inside edge of the stile. That will give you the exact spot to mark and drill a hole. Then, install your door stop using the singular hole in the back of the door stop.
If your cabinet does not have a shelf to butt up against, you can line up the bottom of this rail with the two larger holes in the jig. Butt it up so it cuts through the middle of those two holes—that’s how you know you’ve lined it up correctly. Then, you can make your mark on either corner, depending on which side you’re on, drill it out, and install your door stop from there.
Now you can see that we can go ahead and install this door. The door stops do their job well, and that top one is making good contact with the top of the door.
Installing Door Stoppers - Double Door Cabinets
In a situation where you have double doors, you aren't able to measure or slide your jig right into the edge of the stile. Instead, you have to find the center of the cabinet opening.
You can do that in a couple of ways. One way is to simply close one door and line up the edge of your jig with that door. The jig has two holes—just make a mark through those two holes, drill them out, and install your door stop there.
If you're not using our jig, what you're going to want to do is measure to the center of your opening and then measure 1/2" in either direction. Once again, you'll also measure 5/16" back from the back of the face frame.
The Finished Product & Summary
And that is all there is to it for installing door stops in both single-door and double-door applications, whether using our Cabinet Joint inset scribe jig or just a measuring tape.
If you have any more questions, feel free to contact your cabinet coach or call us at 888-211-6482.
Thank you guys for watching!
