Converting Regular Drawers To Soft Close

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Converting regular drawers to soft close.

Come to find out you don t need to buy special cabinets to get slow close drawers and doors. Screw the slides into the drawer. Switch the drawer slides jig so that it is sticking outside of the cabinet. Repeat this process for all the drawers in the kitchen.

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. Put the bit through the screw hole as you hold the soft close attachment in place. They sell the hardware to do it on amazon making this a simple and fairly cheap but big upgrade. 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.

Well if you ve ever wished for quieter closing drawers. 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. Rest the drawer on the jig and extend the drawer slides until they are fully extended to the front edges of the drawer. Step 2 drill a starter hole with a 3 32 inch drill bit attached to the electric drill.

You put one piece on the bottom of the drawer as close to the front as you can. Retrofit soft close to almost any drawer blumotion. Our knife drawer is the width of 2 regular drawers plus it has the extra weight of metal utensils so that s the only drawer we used 2 units on. 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 install is very easy as you can see from the video.