How To Measure Your Cabinet Door Overlay

This is your door overlay.

How to measure your cabinet door overlay. Full overlay cabinet door tutorial. These reveals may as large as 1 to 2 in some cases. Normal door overlay is 1 4 to 1 1 2 in this example the measurement from the edge of the tape at the 1 mark to the edge of the frame opening is 3 8. Also not all doors have an overlay to measure.

The above photo shows the entire door is on the outside of the cabinet frame. If you need to install new hinges measure the overlay to figure out what size you need. Most cabinets feature a 1 1 2 face frame. Measure the distance between the pencil mark and the adjacent inside edge.

A cabinet with a door larger than the opening in the frame is called an overlay door because the outer edges of the door overlap the frame. Start by taking a survey of your existing cabinets. A quick note on measuring. Lets update an old cabinet and make it look new again.

Whatever the figure is represents the overlay of your existing doors. You will want to record all your measurements to the nearest 1 16th of an inch. The overlay is how much a door overlaps a cabinet frame. In this case you would use a 1 1 4 overlay hinge adding 2 1 2 to the width of your.

The overlay itself is the measurement by which the door. Close the cabinet door to begin measuring the door overlay. This is an overlay door. To achieve a full overlay effect the doors and drawers cover most of the cabinet frames on a framed cabinet we recommend you use a hinge overlay of 1 4 less than the width of your cabinet frames.

Now measure the distance from the inside edge of the tape to the frame opening. It will likely be inch but 1 inch and 3 8 inch are also not unusual. Remove the cabinet door. Now open the cabinet door and measure from the edge of the tape inside edge to the edge of.

Overlay door note the door sits in front of face frame and is larger than cabinet opening. The cabinet door has to be closed to accurately place the tape used in the measurement. Line up the edge of your door with the edge of a piece of tape and apply the tape to the face frame of the cabinet must be on the hinged side of the door.