Convert Drawers To Slow Close

This product has worked well to slow down our drawers as they closed.

Convert drawers to slow close.

Repeat this process for all the drawers in the kitchen. Screw the slides into the drawer. Put the bit through the screw hole as you hold the soft close attachment in place. In general we only needed one per drawer.

You put one piece on the bottom of the drawer as close to the front as you can. I followed the tips from other posters on how to install these mechanisms. Soft closing is achieved through a damper that prevents the drawer from slamming and springs that gently pull the drawer shut. The old hardware remains in place.

Step 2 drill a starter hole with a 3 32 inch drill bit attached to the electric drill. 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. 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.

I also added another piece of wood to keep the drawer from popping over the slide mechanism this can be seen in the picture. The install is very easy as you can see from the video. 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. A soft close drawer slide is a specialty drawer slide that prevents drawers from slamming shut and assists the drawer in closing.

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. The slow close basically is the result of the piece on the drawer catching the piece on the wall and then slowly closing.