Convert Kitchen Drawers To Soft Close

With our metal drawers i used 2 pack soft close for metal drawers.

Convert kitchen drawers to soft close.

Decent drawer runners with soft close are 100 a pair. Screw marked glide into place predrilling holes if desired. Repeat this process for all the drawers in the kitchen. Drawers only need 1 set installed unless it s a heavy or large.

Set up the drawer slide jig on the inside frame of the drawer unit and secure the hinge to the frame. Th kaboodle ones ive used on a coffee table and are a nightmare to set up compared to blum equal gaps around the drawer etc. Screw the slides into the drawer. However they have a product for wooden drawers here 2 pack soft close for wooden drawers.

To make slow close drawers you install one piece inside the cabinet on the wall and one piece onto the drawer. Having a difficulities removing your new soft close kitchen drawers. Mark placement with a pencil. Align the glide flush with the bottom of the drawer being sure the small extending part of the glide is positioned to the front of the drawer.

Step 2 drill a starter hole with a 3 32 inch drill bit attached to the electric drill. Turn the drawer over and repeat on the other side. I m not sure if they are interchangeable i would imagine they label them as such for a reason. Place the drawer on its side.

Rest the drawer on the jig and extend the drawer slides until they are fully extended to the front edges of the drawer. Repeat at the rear. Put the bit through the screw hole as you hold the soft close attachment in place. Switch the drawer slides jig so that it is sticking outside of the cabinet.

With this video i am going to show you the easy way to remove soft close kitchen drawers. The slow close basically is the result of the piece on the drawer catching the piece on the wall and then slowly closing. The easy way to update your drawers to make them soft closing is to install rockler soft close adapters to your existing epoxy coated slides and you don t have to replace the slides. The old hardware remains in place.