Fixing A Poorly Aligned Drawer / Drawer Slide Problem
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- This video covers a SPECIFIC problem that may be hard to track down for those that don't know about it. It is not about making general alignment adjustments on drawer slides, since those are fairly obvious.
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Another way would have been to adjust the channel attached to the drawer vertically to counter the ascend of the slide.
My drawer slides out on its own, how to fix it?
It might be weird, but out of all your videos, I always like these ones where you fix issues the most. I always overthink these sorts of things, and a lot of your solutions are simple, economical, and you still talk about alternatives as well and why in the particular situation you are using such a fix that you have gone with that approach. Valuable information!
Hi john,
Thank you for the video. I am the owner a professional cabinetry business in Nashville. The way we handle this issue is similar to yours. This is what we do: We screw the slides in as normal, then we add a #6 screw with a washer to the front and to the rear of the slide. Then we remove the original 5mm euro screws. After that, we are able to easily make sure the slide is level with the face of cabinet by simply loosening the #6 screw a tad.. Then slightly moving the slide up/down.. After the sweet spot is hit, we add new 5mm euro screws. This process takes us 5 minutes per cabinet.
If you look at these slides closely, you'll see some slots for screws - not round holes. With these you can adjust slides position first, and after add screws in every round hole.
Thank you so much for posting this !! I was about to burn the freaking kitchen down over these dang drawers !!!
I wrestled with those slides before and lost years of my life. Thanks for the insights.
LOL It took me 3 years to make this reply I was messing with draw slides!
A part of me would dismiss ever putting the drawer slides a different heights, but, in the end, nobody is going to notice and it still works just fine. Great tip.
I can't imagine anyone studying my drawer slides and noticing the one of them is a 1/4" higher than the other. No one will be the wiser once the drawer fronts are installed. ;)
A big thank you John for a straight forward description and solution. I built two cabinets for the workshop - one with 12 drawers and the other with 16 and sure enough had the SPECIFIC problem you described. Looked for quite a while before I ran into your excellent video!
I love how you leave no stone unturned. You take the time to fix mistakes big or small so that everything is right.
I had this exact same issue. I learned the hard way - do NOT install your cabinet draw slides referenced off the bottom of the cabinet. Much better to square off the face. Thank you for posting this example for others.
Been replacing damaged old runners on a chest of drawers and I couldn't get it sitting right. It was driving me nuts. I got it fixed and sitting right within a minute! Thank you so much!
John, Thank YOU! for allowing us to see that things don't always go smoothly for someone of your knowledge and talents. I am about to begin to make a few drawers for the first time and this video has given me the encouragement to begin a task that I've been afraid to begin. Thank you!
Jonathan Popp I agree. Not a lot of people shows how to fix this kid of problem. It helped me a lot. Thanks John
Thank you John, I’m making a built in TV wall unit currently with 12 draws and I’ve run into this problem on the first draw. Found your video and it’s a life saver.
this was the exact problem i was having and it was driving me crazy. i’m off to fix it now, thanks!
thank you so much... i had this problem with my new shop cabinets and i never did figure out how to solve the problem so i've been just living with it... quick and simple fix... worked great.
I felt like this video was made just for me. I had spent all weekend on workbench drawers whose faces weren't perfectly flat to the front, I ended up getting it but only because I had literally adjusted everything in every way. Thanks john this video will come in handy for the next time I make a mistake and think my bench needs more drawers lol
Interesting! It is exactly driving us insane and we've tried multiple things! We used a level on the rail rather than using a square. Will see about checking with this tool tomorrow. Thanks for the video!
I have had to learn things by trial and error. Your videos are awesome. Makes me think of things I otherwise may miss!👍
Great video. I love these slides, but didn't learn how finicky there were until I decided to install pullouts on 1980s builder grade cabinets. It didn't even occur to me that the cabinet walls might not be parallel until it was too late. So many shims.
This was driving me crazy today!! I could not figure out what was happening. Thank you for the fix!
started watching last Thursday 2-8-18 and finished them all. I binged watched like a tv show on netflix haha great work and very entertaining and i would love to work with you for a day. Keep up the great work and look forward to more vids.
Thanks for video on painting panel door. I have a panel door that I painted 18 months ago and will have to repaint because I do not think I painted correctly and therefore will have to repaint. Will follow your steps this time.
GREAT fix John. These are the ones we have to remember. Thanks
Thanks John, great tip as i'm just about to start on my kitchen.
Thanks dude. You just saved my brain from going crazy. Top notch!!
You are a gentleman and a scholar. Newbie DIY home owner and I was about to drill brackets into my drawer to force it to close correctly... This video saved me the embarrassment... even though I typed it on here for the world to see :D
Thanks for showing how to correct for these things, invaluable. I would probably have ended up making a new box cause I thought I screwed it up.
Thanks! I really learn from these kinds of videos.
Thank you for the tip. I'm redoing my closet and I'm going to have many drawers. I'm sure I'll screw something up that will cause my drawers to not be perfect and this tip will come in handy.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Three completely wasted days… every day just working to get back to where I started… When they said “box” i did not know what they were referring to, my damn drawers could float they were so perfectly aligned TO EACH OTHER… but not my askew base! I almost went out and bought new slides! Now i just need that L shaped thing! Thank you Thank you Thank you!
Good tips. I'm in the process of installing drawers i just built into a built-in cabinet in my closet i also made and the first three work perfectly, the 4th (of 8 total) needed some adjustments and this video will be of help. Before i get back to work on this, i need to go get some decent screws. The ones that came with my slides are junk.
I’m always doing home repairs, one more for the bag of tricks is a good thing....Thanks, Good Vid!
just found this video - helped me fix a problem on a nightstand that was bugging me. thank you sir!
This video was ingenious. Great tips and well explained.
That guitar music at the end was awesome!
Hi John. Great video and thanks for all the work that goes into posting.
One question, since you registered the top drawer off of the bottom one when you installed it, did this fix cause any issues with that one as well?
Thanks again for sharing your expertise.
Boy did I need this video... sadly. Thanks!!!
No kidding about driving one insane - thanks for the information!
i had this problem on a set of drawers i made and assumed it was the carcass out of square and just learned to live with it, i'll try this when i get a minute fingers crossed
Thank you brother. My drawers were off slightly and its making me nuts....I'll give this a try..:)
Short but great video. I had to learn it the hard way about two months ago :D
I presume the slides on each side of the drawer work independently of each other since you didn't adjust the right side. I always use a level, but the square is better. Great tip. Would have been nice to address other reasons for the problem you faced. I appreciate videos which address problems . . . figuring out why something didn't turn out correctly is always a challenge. Rare for TH-camrs to show they are less than perfect.
Nice work John! 👍👊
We're in this together! Lol Great video to fix a common problem!
Never purchase Klearvue...EVERY cabinet had to be glued and screwed. Nothing was flush or square. My mistake. Never again. lol Thank you...you helped me solve my issue.
I don't recommend drilling the pilot hole while the slide is in place. The wood chips and sawdust tend to get in the ball bearings and stop it from working smoothly.
Thats a neat trick with your framing square.
That is the problem I ran into a few minutes ago. Was scratching my head on this one.
Thanks for this video! It solved my drawer slide problem!
Dude, you are the best. I was going crazy! Thanks!
Thanks - I am making some internals for fitted wardrobes. Got the drawers on, and 2 of them have this problem. I have tried every possibility - moving the guide rails on one side slightly back, moving the drawer runners forward, and nothing seemed to work. NEver thought to check if they were square!
Well shit, that was a lot easier than I thought it was going to be! Thanks John!
Thanks a lot for the great explanation! You have just saved me hours of frustration 👍👍
Huge thank you!!! Great video!
Good info, Thanks John.
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so, i have a unique issue. my parents had a cabinet made in indonesia and its here in vermont now. the lower drawers however are very hard to open and to close, and i checked it out earlier today (its been a few years since we got it here and i havent done any thing to try and fix the issue till now) so, the slides that where used are the type with two wheels that one glides within or along the track. super simple. so i checked the slides for bent sections, but they where perfectly straight according to the straight edge i used. so that wasn't the issue. but i found a 1/16th inch difference from the front end to the back end on the slides, so i figured the slides where out of parallel. however, the wood, which was supposed to have been kiln dried, has, understandably, warped a bit. so, i am not certain if the issue is individual to the warping, or a dimensional issue in the work itself, or a combination of the out of parallel, as well as the warping of the wood. so, ultimately, i want to try and fix the issue, but am not sure how to go about doing that. ive thought about maybe shimming one side of the drawer slides on the cabinet itself to make up for the difference and regain the parallelism. or, do i mark where the slide in the cabinet itself lies in the back of the cabinet, and cut or try to cut a 1/16th inch notch where the slide contacts the wood, to account for the warp and alignment issue. another thing ive thought about was maybe somehow replacing the slides entirely, though that probably woudlnt account for the warping. thus, i wonder how i solve this issue in particular. options i know of, 1: change the slides entirely, 2: cut a notch or shim the slides in the cabinet to align with the slides on the drawers... or 3: modify the drawers instead somehow. its been about 5 years since the cabinet was made and delivered here, so, i don't know how much more warping it can do, so if i fix the parallelism issue, but it warps some more, iw oddly probably be a bit screwed, and have to do the work again some time. as i am not exactly experienced enough to make an informed decision on what the best course of action would be, i have been looking for any sort of ideas, that might help me decide what to do and how to do it. oh and, i am not entirely certain how i find how out of parallel the slides are, so i can then quantify exactly how much to shim or cut to bring things back to parallel and aligned. thanks for whatever answer you can give. =)
Good tip. Thanks
Nice video. What is the distance, (space or gap), between those drawers? How you calculate to fill with drawers an empty space like this you did before?
Thank you saved my day.
THANK YOU!!!
I've noticed when pulling softly on all of our new soft-close drawers there is always one side of the drawer that has little bit more play. Is this by design?
The slides look like they have vertical slots in them to enable their vertical position to be adjusted.
I had a dresser delivered and the issue I'm having is that one side won't close. It's spongy. It just pops back out
I have a 2 drawer wooden file cabinet and the top drawer is leaning down on the left side about 1/4 of an inch. The door opens and closes properly but just leans enough to prevent the latch from closing. Any ideas?
Thanks you
I have a drawer, where it sits fine closed and open, it just seems like the Full Extension Slides 'catch' at alternating times... not that it should matter, but I wanted to know if they could be tuned?
Omg yes! Thank you everything in my house is crooked
Is this why my drawer opens fine but when I go to close it, it stops about 1/4 - 1/2 inch away from the back of the cabinet and I can't close my door?
Hi, how do i fix the kitchen cabinet drawer that would no close evenly? My wife kinda force it open when some pans are prohibiting it from opening. so she must have yank something. Can you please do a video too? thank you
Looks like the drain pipe is mostly on the left. Did you consider making the drawers asymmetric or is there something on the right that I missed?
If you mean "L" shaped, that would triple the time it would take to make the drawers and they wouldn't be as sturdy. Strength for these comes from the continuous front and back from side to side.
Besides, I've not shortage of space in this kitchen and these drawers double the usable space there already.
You is a Smart man... ;-)
Watching this video after an hour of swearing. Thanks
I get a new bedroom set about three years ago and today I realized that the dresser drawers (all of them) started to lean towards the left!!! I check the smaller one and there was no issue.... The only thing I can even make sense of is that I have a huge triple windows that faces the sunrise and the dresser is exposed to the sun... That being said, is there a possibility the the sun is causing the wood to warp or something? I mean the fault was so precise that either that or an alien fooled with it. One drawer even start to rub a little when its closing and opening....
Good vid. Like how to fix errors.
3:28 red green reference ?
I think I've seen just one episode of The Red Green Show, so probably not.
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If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.
I'm trying to fix a homemade drawer issue which is indeed driving me insane : opened, the drawer leans on the right, closed, it leans on the left. I'm 99.9% sure this is a bad rails alignment and/or level but I've no idea how to align them properly, knowing that the drawer is only 14cm wide. I can't put a level inside between the two rails and even if I could, I don't know how to get the right height AND the proper level at the same time. I'll get it there eventually, but God this is driving me nuts! :)
I am so stressed out. My boxes are squared and slides are leveled but my drawers are still poping out from one side.. HELP ME PLZ!
any input on a wiggly drawer? like one drawer slide likes to pull easier than the other.
Thanks for video, even though it wasn't shown, I am assuming you also had to do the same thing to the other side. Also, by doing this, all you really did is change slide position and did not raise the bottom drawer, therefore not have to redo the top drawer. Correct?
Actually, everything was shown in the video.
+og atkinson, there is no reason to change the other sides height. one is only a 1/4" higher.
OK, thanks.
Thanks.
I have the same door handles on my bed room door, 😁
Is it better to pay a carpenter or furniture assembler to fix mis-aligned drawers?
thanks dad
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I can't get my head around how a front-to-back out-of-level became a side-to-side out-of-square.
Also, couldn't you have just lowered the back screw on the cabinet-side part of the slide without changing anything else (maybe plugging the old screw hole)?
The original location for the drawer slide was resting on the floor of the cabinet, so he couldn't fix by lowering the rear of the drawer slide.
Don Rice: Ah, good answer. But then why not just raise the front screw?
Well he couldve raised the back end of the drawer slide, I think there was enough room there for it not to start rubbing against the bottom..
Karl, cant raise the front screw because it would have hit the bottom of the upper drawer. John fixed it really easy and the only way to fix it.
lol, yup, been there.
Hey!
That was a really good tutorial.
I also replaced my faulty channels.
The issue I am facing is the right side channel comes out of the main hinge when the drawer is slide out.
Can you tell me what could be the reason?
Thanks.
correct I was driven insane
this video did not show up in my subscriptions... i've never had this problem before
It is unlisted. I'll release it tomorrow.
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Youre right, it will drive you insane if you dont know how to fix.. hahahha
maybe an optical illusion but in the last video it looks like the slide for top drawer moved when you put the screw in, so that might be why that was ok. th-cam.com/video/YZ_d3ytGWfU/w-d-xo.htmlm50s
Another issue you didn't address is now that you have raised the left bottom drawer slide, you are now going to have to raise the left top drawer slide to compensate or the drawers will hit on the left side and not close properly.
He raised the slide on the drawer and in the cabinet, which kept the drawer in the same position.
Could’ve much of what was going on under the sink, but it was a great shot of your bald spot! 😳🤪
Yep drive you insane when you dont know what to look for with these gooddamn slide!! Lol
My name is Jeff.
tell me your not leaving the kitchen like that!
you did not fix it.The easy way is to just lose the screws open it and push it downwards a lil bit.
Thumbs down because of the stupid Didi ad