Hinges

Hinges are tough. No two ways about it. You have to be absolutely spot on and square on, or they just don't work. Having spent a good deal of time lining things up and ensuring that they were right to the half-millimetre, I screwed the first one into the cabinet body.

The second hinge, I discovered that I had piloted too far in. Fortunately, you can move the hinge along about a centimetre and retry. This covers up the missed pilot holes. Cunning. In it went, just right.

Satisfied, I flicked the hinges and realised I had screwed them in upside down. There was no way to attach the door. Rats. Out they came and back in the other way up. Phew.

The hardest part is balancing the door to attach it to the hinges. With the cabinet flat, I balanced and tweaked until I had it. Unfortunatelt, the door was too low on the first try, so out came the screws and, by more luck than judgement I turned the wood over to expose the un-piloted opposite edge and this time everything worked.

The only fly in the ointment came when I stood the cabinet up and realised that B&Q hinges have a few millimetres of play, so the door drags on the bottom edge. Ho hum. Good enough! I did a bit of sanding to ease things but that will just have to be a feature!