Greetings All,

I am in the process of installing drawers in my kitchen cabinets below the countertop. Some of the drawers are not closing evenly leaving one end of the drawer face projecting past the face frame.

What can cause this and how do I alleviate it.

Thanks much.

Where are the drawer runners? On the side or on the bottom?

The draw runners were not installed perpendicular to cabinet face nor parallel to each other.

Chuck

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Originally Posted by hkstroud

Where are the drawer runners? On the side or on the bottom?

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The slides are side mounted. They are ball bearing 130 lb rated full extension slides.

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Originally Posted by creahands

The draw runners were not installed perpendicular to cabinet face nor parallel to each other.

Chuck

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Thanks, good info. At least I know where to start.

Drawer not square or cabinet not square. Use small washers between runners and cabinet sides to shift drawer direction of travel. Washers between rear of side that has the gap and front of side that is tight.

Use a framing square to set cabinet rail perpendicular to cabinet face.

If rail goes to back of cabinet, one of the holes is a slot.This is used to adjust rail so draws close correctly.

Chuck

I'm with creahands on this one. The rails going back into the cabinets is almost always the culprit for up down side to side etc. The cabinet is a flat surface. The draw face is a flat surface. The runners for the draw to slide into needs to be at a 90 and level. Sides or bottom runners. Still the same results