Convert Kitchen Drawers To Soft Close

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.

Convert kitchen drawers to soft close.

Decent drawer runners with soft close are 100 a pair. Switch the drawer slides jig so that it is sticking outside of the cabinet. 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. With this video i am going to show you the easy way to remove soft close kitchen drawers.

Step 2 drill a starter hole with a 3 32 inch drill bit attached to the electric drill. The old hardware remains in place. The slow close basically is the result of the piece on the drawer catching the piece on the wall and then slowly closing. To make slow close drawers you install one piece inside the cabinet on the wall and one piece onto the drawer.

Put the bit through the screw hole as you hold the soft close attachment in place. Repeat this process for all the drawers in the kitchen. Drawers only need 1 set installed unless it s a heavy or large. 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.

Turn the drawer over and repeat on the other side. Fitting soft close drawer sliders to your kitchen drawers is as easy as 1 2 3. 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.

With our metal drawers i used 2 pack soft close for metal drawers. Set up the drawer slide jig on the inside frame of the drawer unit and secure the hinge to the frame. Rest the drawer on the jig and extend the drawer slides until they are fully extended to the front edges of the drawer. 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.

I m not sure if they are interchangeable i would imagine they label them as such for a reason. Repeat at the rear. Having a difficulities removing your new soft close kitchen drawers. Screw the slides into the drawer.