Hi,
I made 2 pine drawer for my kids bedroom, each one has 3 doors. When I tried to install the slide for the doors, I realize that I do not have space between doors and side of drawer to install the slides. Is there any solution for this problem?
Thanks in advance, Faram
You could try a bottom mounted slide but perhaps if you described the drawer and drawer cavity, we could offer better advice.
For instance, is the bottom of the drawer recessed ? How much?
Is this a chest of drawers, under bed drawer box, how is it built ?
Bob S.
If the drawer slides are to be side-mounted onto the gables, you can buy stand-offs to do that job, creating enough offset to clear most doors. A cleat/block of wood will also work.
Post some pictures on a free hosting site, and then post the links here so we can see exactly what's going on.
Gables? This word, I do not think it means what you think it means.
R
Bottom mount drawer slides?
Your problem is not stated clearly enough.
If when opening the doors they do not provide sufficient clearence for the glides to pass by you should look for a hinge which allows for a full 180 degree opening. This will provide only a small amount of extra clearence at best.
If you have made face frames cabinets, you can install spacers between the drawer glides and the side panels of the case work, if your drawers are not to wide, in which case, unfortunately you will need to rebuild the drawer boxes.
JoeG
The 'side panels' of a cabinet are referred to as 'gables' around these parts.... by the pros...
I didn't know that hookers critiqued cabinetry. Wow, ya learn something new every day.
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The pros in this part, of which I am one, don't. Using gables to refer to a cabinet side obviously came from a noob who thought that a gable wall just referred to a side wall, which is where gables are typically located on a house. Look up the word - you'll see what I mean. It has to do with the triangular shape. So, unless your cabinet sides are peaked, you are using an incorrect term - be ye pro or not.
R Wreck Chief Semantics Officer
Many of the soft-close slides are bottom mounted and for wider drawer boxes.
Clarke said "Frankly, my dear! I don't give a damn!"
Gable usage in house design ***usually** means a triangular piece at the ends of a sloped roof.
Many refer to the "gable" in cabinets, also. Only incorrect until the masses use it in that context. Then it become correct, unfortunately.
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I stopped running for office in the 9th grade. I got 50% of the vote, and the other two guys split the other 50%. They said I needed a majority. So they ran the election again, and I got 50% again. The third time there were more votes than students. The fourth time they ran the election I was pissed and basically told everyone to FOAD. I'm not much of a politician.
R
Show me one instance where gable refers to anything else on a house, Sparky.
It is not now, nor will it ever be correct. Side is the only word that is necessary for the _side_ of a cabinet. The word gable provides additional information that the word side does not, and that information is not applicable, nor correct, for a cabinet side.
IFF the cabinet has a gable side, then, by all means, call it a gable.
R
Plug the following into Google, Sir.....
what is a cabinet gable
and see what pops up.....
Is it fair to assume that Danny Proulx knows a thing or two about cabinets?
and I quote:
CABINET BOX CONSTRUCTION by Danny Proulx
What's the best way to build the carcass (cabinet box) for kitchen cabinets? And, which material is ideally suited for kitchen cabinet construction? Those are two questions that make-up a good portion of my email each month. Do I have the definitive answer? Unfortunately, there isn't one product that's flawless. Many cabinetmakers, including myself, have opted for 5/8" melamine coated particle board (MPCB) as the material of choice. That's not to say there aren't a few drawbacks with this material, however, in almost all situations MPCB is very acceptable.
Base cabinet boxes are built with two sides (gable ends), a bottom, and a back. The upper cabinets have two gable ends, a bottom, top, and back board. Base cabinets don't need the top board as the countertop covers that opening. Normally, with carcass construction using the Euro cabinet leg, bottom and top boards are attached to the gable ends. In effect, the width of the bottom and top boards determine the carcass interior width because the gable ends are attached to these boards using simple butt joints. The back board then covers all the edges of the bottom, top, and gable end components.
Exactly what I expected. A bunch of Canuckistanians that are bastardizing the Queen's English, no doubt to get back at the old filly. While we're proffering Google searches, DAGS 'gable cabinet england' and explain the lack of cabinetry. You're outgunned, two fading empires to one.
I know you're not a noob, and you choose your words carefully - except when you disagree with me and then you're just simply full of poop - but using gable to denote a _side_ is wrong. Why have another word? Why have the wrong word? Does it change the meaning in any way, shape or form to say gable instead of side? Does side leave out something that gable includes for a cabinet? Nope. Some hoser, back in the deep dark past of Canada, jacked some terminology, and you guys being such pacifists, never called him on it.
Let's flip this around. You tell me - what exactly would you lose if you called the side of a cabinet a side? Do the BC dinner jacket wearing job site jockeys call a gable wall a side? Is there some simmering feud between carpenters and joiners that has you guys fighting over the same words? Not enough to go around?
People have enough difficulty communicating clearly when they use all the same words to refer to all the same things. Obfuscating words do not help.
R Wreck Rant Enforcement Officer
Bzzzt! and Bzzzt! and Bzzzt! 0 for 3
1) Never trust a person whose name ends in an X. 2) I've already explained where the confusion came in on gable and why Canada should just roll over on this one and take it like a man. 3) It's not carcass, it's carcase - as in casegoods, casework. A carcass is a dead body. The original word for cabinet work was carcase, but it was misunderstood by some quasi-literate in the past, who simply misunderstood the word and wrote down the phonetic spelling of what he thought he heard. On his behalf, I can only assume he never saw the word in writing and the person speaking was drunk or had a cleft palate. Maybe he was a bit light in the loafers and had a lisp.- no final Xs unless it's a royalty lineage designation.
R the X
10th Earl of MumblelandPS There's one more Bzzzt! for old Danny Proulx - tell him to proofread his articles. Acronyms are much easier to understand if you don't switch the letters around: "melamine coated particle board (MPCB)"
You, an American, daring to comment on what Canadians do the language...nity-nite, bro'
Just what I needed to help clear things up: "Gables: If the side of the cabinet is not exposed, door is the only visible area of the cabinet. Otherwise, if the side is exposed, in this case the color of the carcass is visible and this can interfere with the rest of the cabinets. You would need replacement gables if this happens. Sides should be the same color, as the cabinet door, side of the cabinets and the front. Everything should match. Otherwise, you would need a different type of replacement gable for each type of exposed ends."
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