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Install Drawer Slides & Faces

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What happens here

Cut small spacer blocks (e.g., 3/4 inch plywood) and use wood glue and a brad nailer to attach them inside the cabinet openings where the drawer slides will mount. This provides a flush surface for the slides, accounting for the face frame. Install the drawer slides into the cabinet units. Once the drawer boxes are in place on the slides, use cardboard shims or 'deck of cards' to create even 1/8 inch gaps around the drawer faces when positioning them. Secure the drawer faces to the drawer boxes from the inside with screws, ensuring they are perfectly aligned. If needed, the video creator suggests adding a thin strip of pine to the side of the cabinet doors to provide enough material for hinge installation and proper gaps.

Goal: Install the drawer slides into the cabinet openings and then attach the finished drawer faces to the drawer boxes, ensuring even gaps.

Tools and materials

  • Brad Nailer
  • Cordless Drill
  • Drawer Slides (full extension)
  • Hinge Jig
  • Miter Saw
  • Router Ryobi
  • Screws
  • 1/4 inch Pine Strips
  • Cardboard Shims
  • Scrap Plywood/Wood
  • Wood Glue

What they say

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slides here they are like i said they're half inch gap on each side but guess what we have we have a face frame therefore we cannot attach it and have the door the drawers open up because of the face i've just cut up some scrap pieces to mount to the side here and then the drawer slides will come here and we'll be able to still use both the face frame and have our drawers come out adequately [Music] oh that is smooth baby let's go all right let's install the drawer faces you just set your drawer face in the front and then use the deck of cards decide how many cards you want to put along the sides and the bottom and the tops equal amount of cards means a perfect gap i can't find my cards my kids stole them all i don't know what we're doing so we're gonna improvise i'm gonna use cardboard the reason it's gonna work for me right now is i've done my due diligence and i planned ahead all the gaps they're supposed to be an eighth of an inch roughly so this is close enough we'll set it at the bottom sides to sides place the drawer face there clamp it in place make sure it doesn't move come out and then secure the screws from the bottom for the doors they're gonna be recessed right we're gonna put a three-quarter inch piece in here which is the distance from this back wall to this face frame just where the hinges are going to line up therefore we're almost going to bend the rules a little bit we use a little jig to create the hole in the doors put them all in line them up and they should be working no problem all right so one of the issues that i'm seeing right now it's a huge issue not to this bit cutting bit would be overlapping by what looks like to be like an eighth of an inch i should have when i built these doors gone a little bit wider instead of maybe a one by two maybe do a one by three one by four now we are where we are i have four doors i think what i'm gonna do is add rip a piece of pine add a quarter inch strip on this side where the hinge will be i'll glue it so i'll be super strong then use the jig make my holes and then on the opposing side i would rip a quarter inch off because my gaps have to be a certain amount to make sure the doors work let this be a lesson folks don't use 1x2 for styles and rails at least some cabinet doors bump them up to like the next up three and a half or one by four or something like that ah i'll just glue the pieces that i cut off back on and we'll see how it turns out if it turns out like crap i'll have to rebuild…

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