Cabinet Door Restraint, 8 Inch Stainless Steel Cupboard Hinge Limiter Swing Restrictor Stopper, Flexible Braided Cable, Prevent Door From Opening Too Far Made in USA by Salt Life Solutions (2 Pack)

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You can limit how far your cabinet opens by using either a hinge restrictor clip or cabinet door restraints. These are both easy to add to existing cabinets and limit how wide the doors can open up. After having these restraints up for almost two years, I can tell you that I absolutely stopped noticing that they are even there at all. And I certainly don’t miss the doors dinging up my walls! Our stainless steel cabinet door restraints are the superior choice compared to the plastic hinge restriction clips offered by others. Here’s why:

Hinge restrictor clips attach to your hinges and limit the door opening to 86 degrees. This will keep them from banging into anything, just like you want. Here’s how to prevent a cabinet door from hitting the wall by adding a simple wire. Options for keeping a cabinet door from opening too far

The plastic restriction clips get brittle and break easily. After all, they’re only made of plastic. The plastic restriction clips have only one opening angle: 86 degrees. That “one size fits all” approach may work great for the company making them, but not for the end consumer. The plastic restriction clips put all of the stress and strain of limiting your door opening angle on the hinges themselves – something they are not designed to handle. This will cause premature failure of your cabinet hinges and possible damage to your cabinetry.

There are a couple of options on how you can fix this problem, but if you’re going for speed and ease, this is the way. However, there are a few things about it that have me scratching my head, wondering “what were they thinking?!” Yes, the new knobs we just installed (and the knobs the previous owner had) bang right into another cabinet in one spot and into the wall in the other. The doors don’t stop themselves soon enough. This is causing damage to the knobs and damage to the cabinets themselves. When the knobs hit the drywall, they cause dents and damage and when they hit the other knobs, they dent. String your screw through the other end of the restraint and screw into place. Again, be sure not to tighten it 100 percent of the way.You don’t want your cabinet doors to hit each other because it can damage the door or the knob and will also make a surprisingly loud noise. Doors should be able to stop at a perfect 90 degree angle and if they don’t you can fix it yourself. Pre-drill a small hole in that spot. You do not need to go very deep. Be sure not to drill through the cabinet. This is just to get the screw started. Hold the restraint up and decide where to attach it to get your desired open angle. For us, it was on the underside of the upper lip of the cabinet base. Choose how far open you want the door to go and mark that spot with a pencil. Also take a look at where the wall or other doors are and figure out where you want it to stop. If you’re looking to stop your door from hitting the wall, you only need to make sure it stops just off the wall.

Love them. They definitely stop the cupboard doors from hitting each other. Great little restrictor piece When using cabinet restraint wires, take time to figure out exactly how wide you want the doors to open. Take a look at what items you store inside the cabinet and know the minimum width to get those items in and out.We opted to go with the cabinet door restraints because I read that there are some issues with the hinge restrictor clips only being compatible with certain types of hinges.