An easy answer to adding a the soft close feature to almost any existing drawer that has a 1 2 side clearance.
Can you add soft close to drawers.
If you ve ever gotten your fingers stuck in a closing drawer then you ll want to know this.
Rest the drawer on the jig and extend the drawer slides until they are fully extended to the front edges of the drawer.
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.
They can be noisy when the drawer closes.
Attach guide to soft close part.
The great thing about this method is that you will now have a number of perfectly fine drawers left over and you can install these wherever you like as per the ikea instructions.
Step 2 drill a starter hole with a 3 32 inch drill bit attached to the electric drill.
Soft close drawer glides are here to save the day.
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.
This rok hardware soft close add on for wood or melamine drawers is designed for easy installation without measuring.
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.
They are affordable and easy to use and can make your kitchen a safer quieter space.
Screw the slides into the drawer.
Well if you ve ever wished for quieter closing drawers.
Repeat this process for all the drawers in the kitchen.
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.
Then you put the drawer back in to mark where the second piece will go inside.
Put the bit through the screw hole as you hold the soft close attachment in place.
Place soft close hinge damper adapter butted up in the top corner of the cabinet against the side wall and top of cabinet.
Switch the drawer slides jig so that it is sticking outside of the cabinet.
You put one piece on the bottom of the drawer as close to the front as you can.
Start wood screw through the adapter before placing.