12 Inch Drawer Slides Lowes

Williams Blithad · Sunday, November 21, 2021

Drawer Slide Length???

Hello Creekers,
I�ve landed a job building kitchen cabinets for my wife�s uncle. I�ve completed the measuring and design work, and have drawn up the plans. He�s okay�d them. So, now I�m putting together my quote. I�ve pretty much got that wrapped up; sourced and priced the prefinished ply; calculated and sourced the necessary BF of hickory; and sourced and priced most of the hardware. My question has to do with drawer slide lengths. He wants full extension side mount sliders � I�ll likely get these from Rockler. If the cabinets have the standard 24� finished depth, does that mean I get 24� drawer slides? Or do I get 22� to account for the thicknesses of the face frame (��) and plywood back (also ��)? I would assume there�s some sort of spacer or extension clip to allow for this. Any nudge in the right direction would be appreciated!
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Jason, Your slide length should equal the distance of the actual drawer outside depth. If your drawer is 22" long, get 22" slides.
If you get the 22" slides and make your drawers 22" deep you'll be fine.
Since you'll likely buying in bulk I recommend you to look into getting your slides from a different source, Rockler can be pretty spendy for hardware.
I always use 20" hettich full extensions on 24" deep kitchens and found them to be plenty deep. I'd bet you can find quality guides for a lot less outside of rockler.. just a thought.
Mark.
Jason, last time I needed drawer slides for shop cabinets, back in January, I got a couple of dozen of the "economy" full extension slides from here.
Prices and delivery were right, and quality seems to be on a par with Accuride - at least initially. For all I know they may fall apart a few years down the road, but so far, they seem to be doing the job quite well.

Disclaimer: Just a customer, not affiliated otherwise, in any way.

Tom Veatch
Wichita, KS
USA
Originally Posted by Mark Boyette

I always use 20" hettich full extensions on 24" deep kitchens and found them to be plenty deep. I'd bet you can find quality guides for a lot less outside of rockler.. just a thought.
Mark.

Jason, just so there's no confusion. If you use a 20" full extension slide on a 24" drawer as Mark suggests, when open, you're gonna have 4" of drawer inside the carcass.
PS I agree, Rockler is a bad source for slides when buying in bulk. I use Woodworker's Hardware ( wwhardware.com ) after first searching eBay.
Look--it's real simple. If your cabinet sides are 24" deep, get 22" d.s. That way, you won't hit the back of the cabinet. If you use 24 " the slides won't work. Make your drawers 22", slides 22", and your ok to go !!
You can buy good ball bearing slides at H.D. or Lowes either one. Any size-save on ordering, s&h.
I bought them in bulk of 20 pairs at the time from ebay. http://cgi.ebay.com/22-Full-Extensio...d=p3286.c0.m14
Mike
I've used thousands of the economy slides from WW's hardware. These slides do have fewer ball bearings in the "travelers" than the "premium" Accuride, Blum, K&V, etc. but IMO it does not significantly affect function or durability. We've had them in institutional use for 5+years and the only failures we heard of were from removal/reinstallation of heavily loaded drawers(whch could happen with any drawers
We cycle tested a pair 10,000 times with a 90lb bag of portland cement in it with no visibly discernable wear or damage.

GlideRite is another vendor with attractive prices.
http://www.gliderite.com/bearing.htm

I think most of the suggested alternative sources would be less expensive (w/shipping) than buying retail from Rockler or a BORG.

-kg
I just went through getting some full extension Accuride slides and after reading their specs sort of came to the same conclusion that Rick stated so I got them 2" shorter than the cabinet depth. The best prices I was able to find were from this outfit and no complaints with their service.
http://www.ahturf.com/

Use the fence Luke
Gentlemen,
Thanks for the great information! It appears that 22" is the way to go and Rockler is to be avoided for bulk purchases. Looks like I'll be surfing the web this weekend for some better pricing. Again, thanks!
22" is standard in the industry.
24" slides are 23-3/4" in length. And the price jumps considerably.
You can also get full extension slides with 1" overtravel. They allow full access to the drawer. KV 8405 are ones that I have used, I'm sure there other brands. I get most of my hardware from Woodworkers Hardware.
http://wwhardware.com/
Okay, here's some related questions. If I'm using face frames, conceivably there's some overhang of the frame inside the box (that�s how my Medallion brand cabinets are at home). - If I attach the slides directly to the cabinet box, wouldn't the frame impede the movement of the slide?
- Do you have to build out the inside of the box to be able to attach the slides? Or do you just size the box to be flush with the inside of the face frame?
- If I were to use 1�� wide stock for face frame construction, wouldn�t this leave way too much material hanging off the outside of the box? Does the even matter? The cabinets that are in my kitchen, which I installed, only had �� hanging off the side.
- Am I over thinking this? Please help!