How To Measure For Drawer Slides

Turn the drawer face down.

How to measure for drawer slides. A drawer slide that is too thick or thin will prevent your drawer slide from working properly if at all. The drawer is mounted using blum Tandem undermount slides. To determine the proper length measure the interior depth of the cabinet behind the face frame if there is one and choose a slide the next size shorter than that measurement.

This is for the 58 slide versio. Now measure the inside width of the cabinet. The bottom rides in a 14 dado all around.

Measure the width of the drawer. Remove the drawer from the cabinet. In this How to i will show you a very easy way to calculate your drawer box to fit an under mount soft close drawer slide.

For example if your cabinet is 15 wide inside cabinet measurement and your drawer box is 14 wide outside drawer box measurement you will have the 12 on each side to properly install the slides. Slides must be the same length as drawer to work properly. Subtract 1 from the WIDTH to allow space for the drawer slides.

For under-mount slides measure the drawer length. So you should measure the width of the box from outer edge to outer edge then the interior of the cabinet and be sure you have the needed inch of clearance. For side-mount and center-mount slides typically measure the distance from the front edge of the cabinet to the inside face of the cabinet back and then subtract 1.

Subtract at least 12 from the HEIGHT to allow clearance above and below the drawer. If you are measuring a high back drawer then order your custom drawer based on the high measurement and the normal taper will be to a 3 front height. The front joint is variable.