Drawer Slide Installation- Retrofitting Soft Close Drawer Slides

Do you have a link to the bracket glide (triangle) piece you used?

Thank you for this video. I was ready to send back the Kreg support items and find a vendor to help me do the work, but your video is motivating me to give it another shot, using your instructions. Cheers!

Thank you! Wish I had found this video last year when I installed pull outs in base cabinets. After much struggle I realized the cabinets weren’t square, so all the other DIY videos left out crucial information about how to compensate. I didn’t use face frame sockets, so I used boards with shims where needed to build up a square frame to attach the slides to. A lot of work!

How do you put the jigs in for the bottom drawer? Doesn't seem like there is enough room. Or, do you do something else to get the space right?

Where you get the cabinet level tool at

Great demonstration. Now, I'm confident that I can tackle this project.

Dude you are so smart. I was educated but not intimidated. Thanks. I'll be watching more of your videos.

Awesome

Hello sir. I followed your excellent presentation and installed my self closing drawer. The only problem I have is when I pull the drawer , I have to apply a little bit force and after that is nice and smooth. It closes by itself. I am just concerned about the stiffness when I pull out the drawer. Is it supposed to be like that or I have done something wrong ? Please advice. Thanks.

Thank you for sharing

you just need a mic

Excelente video
Tendrás algún vídeo en español?
Muchas gracias

What if your cabinet measures deeper than drawers by several inches... How do we know what size slide to get? Go by drawer size or cabinet size?

THANK YOU!!!
You just saved me around $20,000 :-)
I can totally do this myself and keep my original doors and drawers. I never thought about just replacing just the slides.👍

Which slides did you use?

Thanks for this. Huge time saver!!

Fantastic. This is a perfect instruction video, didn't go to fast or too slow just showed how it's done and what tools you need. Great tips for unexpected situations also. Learn how to install drawer slides in 13 mins!

Thank you.

Great video! I know it probably depends on the brand of slides but have you ever had issues where the soft close drawer is very difficult to open? I think it's the soft close mechanism just trying to set itself but it seems very hard to open. Could it be something out of square or tilt on the slides maybe? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Nice job

Thank you!!! I'm retrofitting funky old built-in cabinets and this is exactly the instructional video I was l looking for!

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You did not address , that the inside width measurements of the drawer slides , needs to be equal to the width of the drawer slides .. , what would you do If the drawer side outside measurements were a 1/2 inch wider . So for example the inside measurements of the drawer slides is 15 3/4 and the drawer is 16 inches .

Well done. To the point and no sales pitch. You showed how to attach the rear of the slide when most don't come with support brackets for that application. Also appreciate the extra tips for proper alignment so it slides freely.

Thanks - exactly what I needed to retrofit an old kitchen drawer with new slides!

So if I'm understanding it right then you must make your drawer always smaller.
Because you have still to connect the draw slider on the drawer so it fits together in the cabinet?

Great video

Ok , but what if you haven’t got the support brackets?

Loved the video. Made the install quite easy. You handled most of the "gotchas", but missed one that is probably common. My 35 year old "custom" cabinets have drawer openings only 1/4" wider than the drawer box! If they were wider than the amount needed for the slides to extend, a shim could be used. In my case, I think I need to cut a 3/8" slot in the face for the slides.
Have I missed something easy?

I am not skilled in finish carpentry but this made easy work of a conversion project. I owe you a beer!

Excellent video. Unlike most that make every step simple and predictable as if everything works out perfect, this video shows you how to plan for the imperfections in the furniture you are working with and so, have the solution in advance. Good techniques too.

THIS IS SO AWEEEESOME! Thank you so much....

Thanks guys - this was very helpful. Good camera angles and solid info throughout. Took a challenging DIY job and made it doable.

Is there a recommended screw for installing the rear brackets as to not worry about blowing out the back? I’ll be installing this type of slide into my island.

Great job (tutorial) that was exactly what I needed to see. I’m installing the same rails on two drawers for a table saw cabinet I built. My first cabinet and my first drawer installation. I went online and ordered the set of keg brackets and another face clamp (already had one). I retired three years ago so it’s never too late to learn something. I also learned how to design in fusion 360. I’m sure you guys are doing a great job of teaching something similar. This was a big help for me. Thanks

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I am installing self closing drawer slides one side goes all the way in but the other side sticking out about 3/16 or 1/4 on the other side can u help me

Excellent video

Need to verify the Slide Bracket P/N you have linked above. Ordered the Prime-Line 7227 bracket from the link on Amazon and the bracket only has a 7/8" opening. The slide needs 1 3/4".

Amazing! After watching any number of videos on drawer installation this is by far the best! You have a new subscriber to your channel. Thank you for making a difficult job easier.

The only question I have is, how do you know the rear bracket is close to where it needs to be (I am quite sure I am over-thinking this.)?

WOW! Great video. Easily the best DIY video I have viewed in over 1,000 videos.

Thanks for the instructions. We’re building a house and we didn’t ‘order’ the soft close slides. They said it’s ‘too late’ in the process when we noticed. I’ll be doing it myself and probably save a lot of money in the process.
Your instructions and the videography were excellent. Thank you.

Yes, thanks for sharing. Love the quality of the video..Nice job

This is good stuff. I’ve watched a lot of these videos for drawer slides and this is the most clear and well instructed by far. I feel a lot more comfortable doing this DIY now. Thank you!

Very well done tutorial. Thank you for making this and posting, professional video work. Also, info that's good so you don't have to schlep to the box store and pick brains. Less contractor knowledge at the box stores sadly these days. Bests~

Best explanation of using the Kreg jig. Thank you

This video should have way more likes and views. I liked it. Picking up the jigs in the morning.

I'm having a problem with two of my drawers. The rest work beautifully. The problem I'm having with my guides are , when I pull the drawer open the mechanism that holds the spring keeps popping the spring mechanism. Which then , as I go to close the drawer it just slams up against the kitchen cabinet. I keep trying to set the spring mechanism in the drawer guide towards the back of it, then it will work one time closing the drawer. Yet as I go to open it again the spring mechanism keeps popping back. I dnt know how to fix it. Please help?

Very good video. There are so many kinds of drawer boxes and cabinets that there have to be many different ways of mounting drawers. The cabinet shown (face frame fitted and no internal middle support) is one of them. The method shown for this is good. Personally, I always use the spacer block method rather than the Kreg-style supports as it does not assume that the face frame is square to the sides - its easy enough to clamp the spacer block ( I attach a “foot” to one side to assist in this) where needed. I also start at the top and work down, cutting the spacer blo acc each time. Where the Kreg-style bracket is very good, and I haven’t seen it before, is supporting the drawer when installing that. I will be copying this although I won’t be paying £30 for the brackets as I can make them in minutes using pieces out of the offcut bin.

This is the first video that I have seen from these people and, if there are other others, I will be watching them. Good job to all concerned.

Where I find most starters have a problem is when fitting drawers to an open box cabinet. Particularly in spacing the drawers where there is no face frame to determine heights. In this case, you have to calculate how tall you must make each drawer box leaving room in between (above and below) each other. For instance, if you have a cabinet box height of 600mm, you might decide to have boxes of 150mm (10mm gap underneath, plus 25mm height gap), 125mm (+ 25mm), 125mm (+25mm), 100mm (+15mm gap above). I would fit the drawers and, if I’m having overlay fronts, fit those afterwards. If I’m using real wood with a nice grain pattern for the overlays, I can use a single piece so that the grain flows across all the fronts. That’s my method; there are lots of right ways and a few wrong ways.

If I measured inside my kitchen cabinets and it’s just shy of 23” from the back to the inside face of the drawer opening, do I get 22” slides or 24”?