Convert Drawers To Slow Close

I followed the tips from other posters on how to install these mechanisms.

Convert drawers to slow close.

Now here s how the system works this is the closing mechanism. To make slow close drawers you install one piece inside the cabinet on the wall and one piece onto the drawer. Retrofit soft close to almost any drawer blumotion. I also added another piece of wood to keep the drawer from popping over the slide mechanism this can be seen in the picture.

A soft close drawer slide is a specialty drawer slide that prevents drawers from slamming shut and assists the drawer in closing. Put the bit through the screw hole as you hold the soft close attachment in place. Our knife drawer is the width of 2 regular drawers plus it has the extra weight of metal utensils so that s the only drawer we used 2 units on. Switch the drawer slides jig so that it is sticking outside of the cabinet.

The old hardware remains in place. In general we only needed one per drawer. Well if you ve ever wanted softer closing drawers rockler has a product you should know about these soft close adaptors for wooden drawers retrofit to your existing epoxy coated slides to slow down that closing action and you don t have to replace the slides. You put one piece on the bottom of the drawer as close to the front as you can.

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. Rest the drawer on the jig and extend the drawer slides until they are fully extended to the front edges of the drawer. Repeat this process for all the drawers in the kitchen. This product has worked well to slow down our drawers as they closed.

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. The install is very easy as you can see from the video. Soft closing is achieved through a damper that prevents the drawer from slamming and springs that gently pull the drawer shut.