Showerthought: That $200 Blumotion soft close kit I bought was a nightmare

Thought I was being smart. Upgrading all my old cabinets in the kitchen. Picked up a full set of Blumotion dampers and hardware. Cost me about $200 for the whole setup. Took me a whole weekend to install them. Half of them didn't even line up right with my existing hinges. Ended up having to drill new pilot holes and mess with the mounting plates. Now three of them are already sticking after 4 months. Should have just stuck with my old mechanical hinges. Anyone else get burned by aftermarket soft close stuff?

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hugoh5515d ago

Did you have to pull out those little plastic adapters too? I was dead set on Blumotion being the gold standard after hearing all the hype, but messing with those mounting plates made me rethink everything. Ended up having one cabinet door that wouldnt close flush no matter how many times I adjusted the screws. It's wild how something that looks so simple on paper turns into a weekend project that leaves you swearing at your own kitchen. I feel your pain on the sticking ones too, mine started doing the same thing around the 5 month mark.

christopher_wells415d ago

The real issue nobody talks about is the cabinet face itself being out of square. Those Blum adapters are designed for perfect 90 degree angles, but most kitchen cabinets settle into a slight parallelogram over time. I checked mine with a speed square and found the face frame was off by almost 3 degrees on the problem door. No amount of adapter adjustment fixes geometry that's already wrong.