Converting Kitchen Drawers To Soft Close

By adding push to close to an undermount soft close drawer slide you can gently push the drawer front and the drawer will glide partly open.

Converting kitchen drawers to soft close.

How to install soft close drawer slides stop your drawers from slamming shut with soft close glides. 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. The good thing is retrofitting your kitchen for soft close drawers is much cheaper than getting new ones and the parts are very inexpensive. See the attached catalog page.

Blum makes a blumotion kit for metabox item z70 0320 that retails for 8 00 and takes about 10 minutes to install. Rest the drawer on the jig and extend the drawer slides until they are fully extended to the front edges of the drawer. The slow close basically is the result of the piece on the drawer catching the piece on the wall and then slowly closing. Step 2 drill a starter hole with a 3 32 inch drill bit attached to the electric drill.

Screw the slides into the drawer. While these aren t cheap you can factor in the savings of not having to purchase additional hardware and install them. This process you show for retrofitting blum metabox drawers to soft close is way too complicated and expensive. Installation takes only an hour or less and you ll be rewarded with a quieter kitchen.

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. Put the bit through the screw hole as you hold the soft close attachment in place. To make slow close drawers you install one piece inside the cabinet on the wall and one piece onto the drawer.