Convert Kitchen Drawers To Soft Close

Screw marked glide into place predrilling holes if desired.

Convert kitchen drawers to soft close.

Mark placement with a pencil. Screw the slides into the drawer. With this video i am going to show you the easy way to remove soft close kitchen 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. Switch the drawer slides jig so that it is sticking outside of the cabinet. Step 2 drill a starter hole with a 3 32 inch drill bit attached to the electric drill. Rest the drawer on the jig and extend the drawer slides until they are fully extended to the front edges of the drawer.

Put the bit through the screw hole as you hold the soft close attachment in place. Buy one do a drawer and see how long it takes you and how your frustration levels are it might be the last one you do. Place the drawer on its side. However they have a product for wooden drawers here 2 pack soft close for wooden drawers.

I m not sure if they are interchangeable i would imagine they label them as such for a reason. Repeat at the rear. 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. Decent drawer runners with soft close are 100 a pair.

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. 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. Repeat this process for all the drawers in the kitchen. The old hardware remains in place.

Drawers only need 1 set installed unless it s a heavy or large. Hold the soft close attachment up to the top corner of the cabinet door so the flat edge sits behind the edge of the cabinet and the knob juts out just beyond the edge. Fitting soft close drawer sliders to your kitchen drawers is as easy as 1 2 3. With our metal drawers i used 2 pack soft close for metal drawers.