Add Soft Close To Existing Cabinets

Line up the plastic piece that goes onto the outside of the drawer itself.

Add soft close to existing cabinets.

Includes installation instructions and screws. Even though drawers are harder than the cabinets it still only took about 2 hours to do all of the drawers in our kitchen. The easy way to update your drawers to make them soft closing is to install rockler soft close adapters to your existing epoxy coated slides and you don t have to replace the slides. Slamming cabinet doors driving you crazy.

The good thing is retrofitting your kitchen for soft close drawers is much cheaper than getting new ones and the parts are very inexpensive. Hold the soft close attachment up to the top corner of the cabinet door so the flat edge. This damper is easy to mount in the upper corner of your cabinet. Stop the slam with this soft close adapter that quietly and smoothly closes cabinet doors.

If the new screw holes don t line up you ll. Your doors will instantly close softly and silently. If you already have european style concealed hinges on your cabinets you can probably replace them with soft close models. Line up the slow close rods exactly with the drawer slides.

Using the screwdriver unscrew the hinges holding the cabinet doors to the cabinet and remove the doors. Drill a starter hole with a 3 32 inch drill bit attached to the electric drill. Put the bit through the screw. Unscrew the hinges from the cabinet doors using the screwdriver.

Open the cabinet door. Make sure it lines up with the rod. Place the new hinges into the mortises from the old hinges. Blum s blumotion salice s silentia and grass s tec may do the trick.

How to add soft close to existing cabinets step 1. Best seller popular price lowest to highest price highest to lowest. If your slides are not mounted straight onto the cabinet wall first drill a piece of 1 4 onto the cabinet wall and then attach the slow close rod onto that piece of wood. The systems are easy to install and can be integrated at any time during or after the installation of your cabinet hinges.