Front part of drawer come off
- Thread starter Keitai
- Start date
Right angled repair brackets
Not slamming it shut, with all that weight and inertia in the drawer?
Remove fittings from drawer runners and refit , ensure rails parallel to base when refitted.
Or standard kitchen drawers not designed to be strong enough.
Or females (and some males), with zero mechanical sympathy. They don't understand that all that weight in the drawer, given a tremendous push, comes to a stop like a sledge-hammer on the drawer front, plus the inertia, when they impatiently drag it open. I fitted a brand new, very expensive kitchen here, some years ago. After a few months, the drawer fronts had parted company with the drawer, due to rough treatment, and over loading. I ended up replacing the lot, with much tougher, steel equivalents.
Why change the runners?
Where did I say that?
Sorry u didn't
To take the drawer front off remove the grey plastic covers on the side of the drawers, there are 2 partial hidden plates which are cut for a phillips screw driver, insert screwdriver and turn and brackets and drawer front will come out.
Fill holes in drawer front with 2 pac filler drill out and insert 6mm wooden dowels with glue. Realign bracket positions on drawer front rear, pilot with appropriate size drill bit and reconnect the bracket, 2 screws per bracket, do screws up with hand held phillips screwdriver.
Pop drawer front back on.
Fill holes in drawer front with 2 pac filler drill out and insert 6mm wooden dowels with glue. Realign bracket positions on drawer front rear, pilot with appropriate size drill bit and reconnect the bracket, 2 screws per bracket, do screws up with hand held phillips screwdriver.
Pop drawer front back on.
You could use some epoxy resin glue on the fractured ends......belt and braces etc.
Keep the weight down on that drawer!
John
Keep the weight down on that drawer!
John
Couldn't you have fixed them underneath?
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