How To Install Cabinet Pulls Evenly

A template is also the best method if you are installing handle style pulls that will require two screw holes.

How to install cabinet pulls evenly. Install it so all the knobs on the cabinet are spaced evenly. Stick with the rule of thirds for multiple pulls on a drawer. It makes putting the pulls on the drawers so much easier.

Put in enough to completely fill each hole to the surface of the cabinet from front to back and pack it firmly by placing opposing thumbs. You need to center the template with previously created lines. Subtract the center-to-center measurement of your drawer pulls from that number I was using the 12 pulls for those so my new number was 22.

How to install cabinet pulls evenly. When it comes to cabinet pulls placement for drawers under 24 pulls are most often centered and installed in the middle of the drawer panel. In order for this to work properly your doors need to be level because the jig lines up based on the perimeter of your doors.

Its only been a little over six months since we painted our cabinets. Cut a scrap piece of 14-inch hardboard or plywood roughly twice the length of the pull and about an inch or so wider than the drawers depth. The top screw should be placed 2-½ to 3 below the top of the door.

Just drill through the wood where you made your marks. Install Hardware Higher on the Lowest Drawer Most drawer pulls are centered on the drawer fronts but if the cabinet youre working on has two or three drawers the same size and one larger one at the bottom install the bottom knob or pull higher than the center of that drawer front. Heres how to install cabinet hardware correctly.

I needed to place mine 11 from either end of the drawer front. Insert the fastening screw s through the backside of the hole. Theres a LOT of measuring involved and you definitely want to measure twice.