Adding Soft Close To Existing Drawers

Make sure it lines up with the rod.

Adding soft close to existing drawers.

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. Well if you ve ever wished for quieter closing drawers. Width and height of drawer. Step 2 drill a starter hole with a 3 32 inch drill bit attached to the electric drill.

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. Using the screwdriver unscrew the hinges holding the cabinet doors to the cabinet and remove the doors. The soft close feature will slow the closing action and gently pull the drawer closed. For under mounts clearance between the drawer bottom and the side of the drawer fortunately 90 of drawers that aren t soft close have a 1 2 gap on each drawer slide.

Unscrew the hinges from the cabinet doors using the screwdriver. Retrofit soft close to almost any drawer blumotion. The good thing is retrofitting your kitchen for soft close drawers is much cheaper than getting new ones and the parts are very inexpensive. 2 3 16 height of drawer slide for minimum drawer height.

9 minimum drawer depth. Once both were in place you could try to slam the. Width and height of drawer opening. Even though drawers are harder than the cabinets it still only took about 2 hours to do all of the drawers in our kitchen.

Instructions line up the slow close rods exactly with the drawer slides. 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. Install drawer glides place the drawer on its side. As long as you have a 1 2 gap on either side of the existing drawer you should be able to do a side mount soft close upgrade.

If the new screw holes don t line up you ll. This article is now nearly 4 years old and nowadays there are soft close kits by blumotion and others that make this process much simpler and cheaper in this instructable i will teach you how to retrofit the blumotion soft close draw. Let s take a look at the basic steps. Easily add the soft close feature to any wood or malamine drawer with a 1 2 side clearance.

Place the new hinges into the mortises from the old hinges. If your slides are not mounted straight onto the cabinet. Unscrew the existing drawer glide hardware from both the drawer and the cabinet. One thing to note is to look at your drawer ours has metal sides that.

Line up the plastic piece that goes onto the outside of the drawer itself. 2 soft close devices recommended for heavy drawers or drawers 23 and wider.