Let s take a look at the basic steps.
Adding soft close to existing drawers.
The soft close feature will slow the closing action and gently pull the drawer closed.
Once both were in place you could try to slam the.
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.
Easily add the soft close feature to any wood or malamine drawer with a 1 2 side clearance.
2 3 16 height of drawer slide for minimum drawer height.
Using the screwdriver unscrew the hinges holding the cabinet doors to the cabinet and remove the doors.
Line up the plastic piece that goes onto the outside of the drawer itself.
Width and height of drawer.
Place the new hinges into the mortises from the old hinges.
Put the bit through the screw hole as you hold the soft close attachment in place.
Well if you ve ever wished for quieter closing drawers.
Determine the size of the slides select a soft close side mount drawer slide.
The good thing is retrofitting your kitchen for soft close drawers is much cheaper than getting new ones and the parts are very inexpensive.
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.
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.
9 minimum drawer depth.
Instructions line up the slow close rods exactly with the drawer slides.
One thing to note is to look at your drawer ours has metal sides that.
Even though drawers are harder than the cabinets it still only took about 2 hours to do all of the drawers in our kitchen.
Retrofit soft close to almost any drawer blumotion.
Step 2 drill a starter hole with a 3 32 inch drill bit attached to the electric drill.
If your slides are not mounted straight onto the cabinet.
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.
2 soft close devices recommended for heavy drawers or drawers 23 and wider.
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.
Unscrew the hinges from the cabinet doors using the screwdriver.
Make sure it lines up with the rod.
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.
Unscrew the existing drawer glide hardware from both the drawer and the cabinet.
