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Old timer's two cents on soft-close hinges got me thinking
Met a retired cabinetmaker at a jobsite in Portland last Tuesday, been doing this since 1978. He watched me install a full set of Blum soft-close hinges and said, "You kids fix problems nobody had." At first I wrote it off, but he showed me how a simple friction hinge lasts 40 years with zero parts to fail. Hit me different because he pointed at my service van and figured half my callbacks are hinge adjustments, not real wear. Anyone else ever had an older guy trash a modern upgrade and make you second guess it?
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michael5191mo ago
Did you ever stop and think about why those old friction hinges never needed adjusting? They wore out slow and you just lived with a door that didn't quite shut right after 10 years. My uncle ran a cabinet shop for 30 years and swore by the plain hinges too, but he also told me customers never used to expect a door to close itself. That's the real change. People now want the door to shut quiet and soft every single time, and they will pay for it. So yeah, the old guy is right that you're fixing stuff nobody used to have, but the reason is folks expect more now.
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