Blum 38N355B08180 Compact Soft-Close Blumotion Overlay Hinge

Great product ease of use. a good value closes easy

Our 30 yr old cabinets started not opening and closing properly and it was obvious the old Blum hinges were breaking down. They are mostly nickeled metal but have plastic inserts for the rotation range. You have to be really careful selecting the hinges that mount the same way as your existing ones. Some screw onto the face (exterior side) of the cupboard frame, and others like these screw onto the inside edge of the frame.I was a bit anxious whether the hinge to edge distances were correct or not but these are perfectly compatible with the non-Blumotion (soft close) version of the Blum 1/2' Overlay. I removed the olde hinges, screwed these onto the doors using the exact same two screw holes. However, the old hinges had two screws securing hinge to the cabinet frame and this model uses one large screw. So I carefully measured each set of two holes on the fram and drilled another 1/8" hole exactly between them. Oddly some of the old hinges had two holes 1-1/2" apart and others at 1-3/8" apart. But regardless, by centering the new drill hole in the center between the old holes the hinges went on perfectly. Measure every hinge and mark accordingly to be sure. Best to use a ruler that has marked increments down to 1/16".It is easiest to do this with a helper to have the door held while the hinge screws are driven into the cabinet frame (attaching door to frame). Work together to remove doors (we did one or two at a time), then one person can be removing old hinges and attaching new hinges to the door while the other person is measuring and drilling the new holes on the cabinet frame. Then both can work together to hold the door steady and attach the hinges to cabinet frame.The hinges have small adjustments for (A) moving the door away from the frame and also (B) away from the hinge. I did not need either adjust for single doors. But for doors that close together (doubles) I had to back the screw towards the middle of the hinge all the way out usually to allow to the doors to close together without binding. I suspect older doors have swelled a bit and may have banged loose a bit so need more room to close properly. The hinge attaches to the frame with slotted holes and one screw so there can be some adjustment up and down as well for matching heights of double doors.These hinges work really well. You can give the door a good push to close and it slows down and then very gently oozes to a close. One warning though. When opening to 90* they kind of spring open further to the full 105*. So if the door opens into a corner it will bang loudly against the opposing door/wall. In this case be sure to get the Blum COMPACT hinge restrictors (about five dollars per 20 or so) for each hinge. The restrictors only allow the hinge to open to 87* which still allows full access to the cupboard but absolutely will not bang into corner cabinet or wall.These soft close hinges have a made a huge difference for us. No more banging cabinet/cupboard doors! Saves wear and tear on the cabinet doors and so quiet. I will suggest that if you need to replace only a couple of worn out door's hinges, to consider upgrading ALL your cabinet doors in that area with the same type of hinge. We just upgraded the broken hinges/doors but then we got used to giving them a good push to close and when it turns out to be one of the doors with older style hinges they go BANG. Now I have all the door hinges upgrade to these Blumotion soft close style and the kitchen so much quieter and I don't cringe hearing bangs and thinking what damage is eventually done to the door.

The hinges work great

I needed these to replace some old hinges that would not work properly anymore.Pros:* They fit the old holes exactly, so Whew! I was very worried about that, given the age of the originals.* They look nice* They close well, and when you shut too hard, it slows down at the end, to stop the slam.* They are adjustable, so you can make them all level, easier.Cons:* There are a lot of choices, and not all are the same depth, even if they are the same width on that big hole. Not cool.* Unnecessarily complicated to order. I seriously worried every step of the way, if I had the right ones.* Unnecessarily complicated to install. Had the holes not already been there, there's no way I could have used these.* Unnecessarily complicated to adjust. Nothing intuitive about these. You just have to screw the screws, and keep checking back to see what happened, until you get it right.* What's the point of making hinges that don't allow the door to open all the way? These open - at MOST, to a straight out 90* angle, but not beyond. That's not a convenient place to stop, in most cases, and if you have a heavy hand, and are accustomed to opening doors a lot further, I can easily see someone breaking the hinge or the door.Overall, this is the hinge system that came in my home, so I will use it, but I'm not loving it. I'm just waiting for someone to break a door, from opening it too wide. If you need this style, though, this was the best price I found

Lowe's replaced their standard Reliabuilt soft-close hinges with a new design that has a kink/fold in the hinge, as a result of which their new hinges are not compatibles with what they sold for the past 10 years. This product is still the old, standard, soft-close model. It works excellently. If you ran into the problem of trying to replace only one hinge and the Lowe's 3/4-overlay doesn't work anymore, try this one!

Nice product. As advertised it works great

I had bought some Blum hinges at a local high-end lumber yard to replace some 25-year Blum hinges that had broken down (no longer self-closing). The new hinges had TWO pairs of prongs, designed to sandwich a standard 3/4" face frame edge between them. This was actually a problem for some of the areas I was replacing hinges, since the rear sets of prongs were going to interfere with installation in some of the locations, and I was going to have to go to a lot of trouble to make things work. So, I was extremely happy to discover that these hinges ordered through Amazon were the same I had gotten in the lumber-yard, EXCEPT that they lack those interfering rear pair of prongs. I don't think this significantly decreases their functionality, and it sure made my life easier -- and other than this difference, the hinges seem identical good quality Blum. Ended up buying three batches of 20 hinges, and they've been great.