I finally solved the drawer slide hangup that ate a whole week

Customer in Phoenix wanted soft-close slides on a 30 inch drawer bank, but every set I installed kept sticking at the last 2 inches. Turns out the cabinet box was racked, out of square by almost 3/16 of an inch, and I never checked until I'd pulled the hardware three times. Took me five days before I grabbed a framing square and found the issue, then shimmed the box and it slid perfect. Anyone else waste time on hardware before checking the carcass for square?

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simon_sanchez5825d ago

Five days on slides when a square would have caught it in five minutes seems like a lot, but I've also been guilty of blaming hardware first. Out of square by 3/16 is pretty minor, and plenty of cabinets that are a little off still work fine with the right slides. Maybe you just got a bad batch of slides, and the square thing was a coincidence.