Need help with drawer guides on a “retrofit” of full inset drawer fronts replacing partial overlay fronts.
Are there full or 3/4 extension guides that accommodate a full inset drawer front?
I have looked online but find the descriptions and images in online catalogs difficult to interpret.
Anyone have advice. Have attached a picture. Hope it is not too big
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Sure, most all of them can be used with inset drawer fronts. In your cabinets, it looks like in some places you may need to add blocking behind the face frame, so that the slides have something to fasten to.
carver ,
You either want side mount ball bearing full extension is nice or the under mounts that are available . There are self closing features also .
Blum seems to have the most popularity and is ahead of the field in technology in many cases . The problem with say a standard Euro side / bottom mounted slide imo is that they drop into a detent that hold them closed , causing the drawer face to first be high then low .
good luck dusty
I like the Blumotion. Just shim out the case close to the face frame, hang slides, then size the drawer box fairly accurately. Get the jig for the locking handels and note that there are different ones for inset applications. I find them easy to install because you don't have to screw on the drawer boxes, just set them in place once you're done. Mark perpendicular reference lines to hang the slides in the cases and use a scrap of 1/4 ply to set the hardware back from the face frame. I just used 15 of them and at 40 bucks a piece thats saying something. I will use them again.
Brian
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