Now's the time to put some handles on our cupboard doors.
Only got a little bit of equipment this time.
A drill.
We've got a great little template here that helps us out with the location of all our
holes.
It's actually set up for various types of cabinets, various sizes of handles as well,
so a great bit of kit.
A tape measure for marking out.
A pencil to help us mark out as well.
We've got our handles, a screwdriver to tighten the screws up on the handles.
And, we've got some special nippers.
We need to cut these screws for the handles shorter.
They're supplied long, almost too long, and you can adjust them by cutting them a bit
shorter.
That's what the nippers are for.
Our first job is to mark where we're going to drill all our holes for the handles, so
we'll get ahead and do that.
Trusty pencil and magnificent little template to help us out.
In this case, we have modern doors, modern cabinetry, and that's actually listed on the
template.
We also have 128 mil handles, and that's also marked on the template, so it all helps us
out.
We'll start with our overhead door first.
The bottom of the template goes flush with the bottom of the door.
We're looking for our modern.
In this case, it is that series of holes there.
We mark the bottom hole with the pencil.
We need to go up 128 millimeters, mark our drilling points with our trusty pencil, and
then a good hint is to just double check offering the handle up to those marks to make sure
we've got them in the right place.
Yeah, that's perfect.
That's all marked, so now I'll drill our holes for those screws in that.
We'll get a couple of screws and our nippers.
The first thing I want to do is just poke the screw for the handle through here to figure
out how far it pokes through.
Remember, I talked about the fact that the screws are too long and we need to cut them
shorter.
So, as I can see here, there are little shoulders on these screws as well, which is a good indicator,
a good helper for us.
On this one, I need to cut off one, two, I need the third one along.
If you don't cut them short enough, too much thread hanging through there, the screw won't
tighten up.
So, I just need to cut that a bit short.
One, two, three.
Just poke it through the door.
I've got about 5, maybe 7 millimeters poking through, which is plenty.
Let's start attaching the handle.
A good idea not to tighten the first one all the way.
Just leave it a little bit loose.
It just gives you a little bit of wiggle room.
The second one going in.
All looking good, that one.
The next step is to do the drawer unit and the lower cupboard.
In that respectfully drawer I need to find the center, so I've got my tape measure.
Finding the center of the drawer, which is here.
I'll look for the center line on the template to match up with the center line that I've
already marked.
I'm looking for modern again, which is the series that this all is.
Okay, now I'll start drilling the holes.
In this case, I only need to cut off one little section of the screws.
The handle, the screwdriver, again, just a few turns just to locate it, get the screw
started.
Lovely.
Now, let's move on to the cupboard.
In this case, we're using the template, and we'll put it flush to the top of the door.
Okay, modern again.
Mark our little hole.
Two screws in the handle.
Start that one.
Beautiful.
Marvelous.
So, I've just shown you three different techniques on how to attach handles to a cabinetry, upper
cabinet, drawer, and lower cabinet.
Now, we'll work our way around doing the rest of them.