Builders Hardware Guides

Replacing a Camden Door Controls wireless push button, key fob or receiver? This guide lists the receivers Camden names for its Lazerpoint RF, Kinetic, CM-SR and CV-WR transmitters, with receiver outputs, battery options and the contents of several kits.

Replacing a Selby lid stay or lid hinge? See what Selby prints for its straight, curved, Delta and cantilevered spring balanced stays and its no-mortise lid hinges: hand, length, lid weight, brackets, opening angle, finish and offset.

Need a mounting plate for a Salice hinge? This guide uses Salice's catalogues and website to match Domi plates to hinge series, compare face frame plates, read plate height, cams and fixing in our titles, and see which hinges each cover cap, spacer and limiter is listed for.

Which Blum hinge do you have? Tell CLIP top BLUMOTION, CLIP top, COMPACT BLUMOTION and COMPACT hinges apart by the features in Blum's identification guide, then read hinge part numbers such as 71B3550 or 38N355B.08 and CLIP mounting plate numbers such as 175L6660.22.

Replacing a Sugatsune push latch or cabinet catch? Find the catalog page for your item number, read the force under the name Sugatsune prints, then match the door gap, color letters, strike version and screws, from the ML-30S and MC-37 to BCTS tension catches.

Replacing a Hettich concealed hinge? This guide uses Hettich's Sensys and Optimat brochures to identify the hinge model, door mounting option and cup, the mounting plate type and distance D, and the opening angle limiters, soft opening and Optimat face frame hinges.

How to tell Rixson pivot sets, top pivots and intermediate pivots apart by model number (117, 147, 180, 340, 370, M19), and how the Norton Rixson documents list floor closer parts: closer body, bottom arm package, floor plate and cement case.

Replacing a Knape & Vogt drawer slide or shelf standard? We read KV part numbers such as 8400B 14 and 80 WH 48, with series tables from the KV Product Guide and the manufacturer's checklist for replacing an old slide.

Replacing a Richelieu cabinet hinge? See what to read off the old hinge and the cabinet: maker and series, opening angle, overlay, cup drilling, closing mechanism and mounting plate, and where our product pages show each.

Replacing a roller, lock, handle or screen part on a sliding glass door or window? See what the C.R. Laurence (CRL) catalog tells you to measure on the old part and where those details appear on our CRL product pages.