Adding Soft Close To Existing Cabinet Drawers

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Adding soft close to existing cabinet drawers.

Repeat at the rear. The blum 563h soft close drawer slides are my first choice for new kitchen or furniture quality drawers. Then you put the drawer back in to mark where the second piece will go inside. Unscrew the hinges from the cabinet doors using the screwdriver.

Screw marked glide into place predrilling holes if desired. Then attach the soft close adapter to the plywood. Attach a piece of plywood or scrap wood noted above to the right side drawer slide. Place the new hinges into the mortises from the old hinges.

If the new screw holes don t line up you ll. If your slides are not mounted straight onto the cabinet. Place the drawer on its side. You will need to clear out the drawer and remove any existing hardware first.

Step 2 drill a starter hole with a 3 32 inch drill bit attached to the electric drill. Put the bit through the screw hole as you hold the soft close attachment in place. 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. Instructions line up the slow close rods exactly with the drawer slides.

The right slide is the guide. The titus add on soft close for wood or melamine drawers is designed for easy installation without measuring. Once both were in place you could try to slam the. The second piece comes with a guide all you have to do is line up your mark in the window screw in the unit and remove the guide.

However if you have a face frame cabinet you ll have two steps. Mark placement with a pencil. Screw 1 piece onto the drawer and the other piece onto the cabinet to set up the slide. Available for face frame or box style frameless cabinet construction.

Like other undermount soft close slides they are invisible once installed come packaged with locking hardware rear mounting brackets and are full extension so the drawer is completely opened. Make sure it lines up with the rod. 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. Line up the plastic piece that goes onto the outside of the drawer itself.

Turn the drawer over and repeat on the other side. 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. Installing soft close drawer slides is a simple diy project that only requires a few tools. You put one piece on the bottom of the drawer as close to the front as you can.