Undermount slide installation

Our cabinet project had two columns of drawers so we cut four pieces. On the left side of your cabinet carcass, bring the support piece all the way to the front inside part of your cabinet. It should be pressed against the inside wall of the cabinet.

Use a pencil to trace where the piece shows through the face frame. For the right side of the drawer, measure a set distance and place your support piece. You want at least 0. Remove the pieces you just transferred your marks to and place them on a flat working surface. Now, simply attach the Left and Right pieces to the back of the cabinet support pieces on the inside. The Left piece is pushed against the inside of the cabinet and the Right piece is offset the distance that you measured from the front.

Screw into place with 1-inch screws. We trimmed the tops with real wood veneer. Building drawer boxes can be challenging and rewarding — see how we did it! This is where a hole need is to be drilled. Do the same for the right-side slide too. Then for the roller drawer slides, you need to use a quarter-inch drill bit and create holes. It should be just shallow enough for holding the pins at marked position on back of the drawer.

Use a level to span distance from the bottom left edge of drawer to carcass back portion. You can make adjustments until the level shows perfect centering for both lines. Then make a pencil mark on carcass back referring to the level on bottom edge as a guide.

Do the same thing for carcass right side. Next, you need measurements of distance between drawer opening front left edge and carcass left side. Do this for the right-side bracket too. Place the left rear mounting bracket for slide onto carcass back. Make sure the bottom edge is aligning with pencil mark. Attach with provided mounting screws.

Follow the same for the right-side rear bracket. Then place left drawer slide on carcass and push back onto the bracket. Attach front edge onto the side of face frame. Use mounting screws to attach.

And you can similarly fit the right-side slide. Finally, you can extend the slides out and settle drawers inside. It should click into the front mounting bracket. Once you are done with the right-side slide, test drawer operation.

If it slides in and out easily, you are done with the installation. Now you know how to install undermount drawer slides. As when you try the installation, there will be enough knowledge with you on how to deal a particular situation if things seem to go a bit off. Good Luck.