How To Build A Drawer For Blum Slides

They refer to the depth of the drawer you ll build not the length of the slide.

How to build a drawer for blum slides. Every time i install these blum drawer runners i have to look up the installation guide find the section on notching and boring for the drawer runner and then translate the metric measurements into imperial so my brain will recognize what the instructions are telling me to do. Make drawer boxes about 1 32 in. If your drawer is a hair too big or small these slides won t glide. They re fussy to install.

Blum tandem 24 inch full extension concealed undermount drawer slide with 110 lbs. The slide lengths are nominal not actual. How to build a drawer for blum drawer glides. It s a lot harder to deal with a drawer that s too wide.

Decide the dimensions of the drawer box. Watch me show you how i install the blum tandem plus blumotion soft close undermount drawer slides real quick. Once you have the. Smaller than you need.

So now that the slides are in place now it s time to actually build drawers. You either have a frame around the drawer or you don t. A few weeks ago i shared how to install blum tandem slides with two jigs in a blog post. It s easy to shim behind a slide with layers of masking tape to make up for a too small drawer.

I am assuming you are using thick stock. Weight capacity and soft close for 16 mm thick drawers pair model. Building a drawer box using a kreg jig is very straightforward and easy. The drawer slide should come with information on that.