Your help please?
I have a gorgeous spalted maple island in my kitchen. Below it two sets of doors for two shelves 20 inches deep. The clearance for each set of doors is 25″ when they are all the way open. (doors open 180 degrees.) Inside two huge shelves. They get very cluttered, I can’t get to the back etc. I would like to make four drawers and install them on slides, so that I can pull out the contents etc.
I’ve been researching my options all morning and don’t understand some things and am not sure what the best choice would be. I don’t have sides on which to mount the slides. I could put blocks of wood into the cabinet to be flush with the face frame so that I could mount side slides. Is this a good idea?
Both Blum and Accuride offer a “rear mounting sockets” for faceframe construction. Does that mean that it is possible to have the slide suspended from the back to the front holding the drawer? That doesn’t seem like a good idea. But I actually could put the slide on the shelf itself.
I could do undermount slides. These seems like it makes the most sense – unless blocking is better.
Drawers will hold: canned goods, Cuisinart, blender, assorted bowls etc. How strong does the slide need to be?
Am I making sense? Is there an obviously right way to do this?
Thanks for your help.
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Both the side and bottom slides mount to the faceframe and to the back. You can use the back brackets and, if necessary, block them out to match the length of the slide. The side slides require 17/32" clearance on each side and this is critical. It's also important that both types are square and level to the faceframe. The back mounting brackets are adjustable and this is a help. There are several types of slides with various weight carrying capacities. There are also different extensions, 3/4, full, etc. All the different types come with instructions. Depending on the style and construction of your drawers, bottom mounts may require a notch. It's a good idea to get the slides before you build the drawers.
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You can mount tendems to the shelf directly. The rear sockets are used in face frame aplications where the front of the slide rests on the mid rail between that drawer opening and the next, if there is no mid rail the slide can be screwed into the stiles. The socket only supports the rear of the slide and is plenty strong if used within its paramaters (do not exceed max cabinet depth). Tandem slides are very versitile and can be screwed into damn near any verticle or horizontal surface with no clearence issues.
The complicated part is figureing the drawer width. The slide regesters to the inside of the drawer sides so you have to carefully account for the material thickness.
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Hi riaamp,
It sounds like the drawers will be behind the doors. If this is the case you will most likely have to take into account how far the door hinge protrudes into the opening so your drawer/pullout will miss it ( if it's that type of hinge ).
I typically use a 3/4" furring strip behind the drawer guide on the hinge side only to accomplish this for Euro style hinges. This way you can make your drawer boxes as deep as you want.
Paul
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