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Base cabinet drawer question
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05-14-2019, 11:05 AM
I am building a kitchen base cabinet for my son. I need to now how to calculate the depth of the drawer. The drawers I have done in the past used wooden slides on the sides, so I could make the drawers whatever length I wanted. This drawer will have undermount slides. I will be using 21" slides and the depth of the cabinet is 23 1/4" on the inside. TIA
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05-14-2019, 12:13 PM
Blum slides? Check this out: link
I doubt the process would be that much different for other manufacturers.
05-14-2019, 12:17 PM
(05-14-2019, 11:05 AM)DaveParkis Wrote: I am building a kitchen base cabinet for my son. I need to now how to calculate the depth of the drawer. The drawers I have done in the past used wooden slides on the sides, so I could make the drawers whatever length I wanted. This drawer will have undermount slides. I will be using 21" slides and the depth of the cabinet is 23 1/4" on the inside. TIA Are you using Blum Tandem undermout drawer slides? Overlay or inset drawers? Face frame? How thick? I have a client who uses these Blum Tandem drawer slides exclusively. Blum has a calculator but I translated that into a component for SketchUp. It shows that for 23-1/4 in. inside cabinet depth (behind the face frame if there is one, the box would be 22 in. long.
05-14-2019, 01:56 PM
The face frame is 3/4" thick. The slides are not Blum, they are by a company called CSH and were bought at Home Depot.
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05-14-2019, 02:09 PM
(05-14-2019, 01:56 PM)DaveParkis Wrote: The face frame is 3/4" thick. The slides are not Blum, they are by a company called CSH and were bought at Home Depot. Their instructions are a bit vague so I don't know how exact the drawer box length has to be but for the drawer slides you indicate, the drawer box should be 21 inches front to back.
05-16-2019, 08:10 PM
Got it. Thanks very much!!
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05-16-2019, 10:08 PM
Whatever the slide length is, is what I made the box length.
24" ID cabinet, I used 24" slides, which most are 23-3/4" long.
Steve
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