Removing soft close kitchen drawers

Mike1983 · 1 Apr 2017 at 18:36

Hi all

I was wondering if anyone has any ideas on how to fix a problem I'm having with one of my kitchen drawers at the moment.

They are soft close drawers and one of them no longer goes all the way back and stays there, the mechanism pushes it back out a couple of cm.

I cannot seem to be able to remove the drawers from the sliders to see how to fix this. Looked at a few Youtube videos where you simply pull some levers on the underside of the drawer and then lift out etc but this just doesn't work.

Some pictures of the issue below in the hope someone knows this type of mechanism and can advise. The exposed screws in the first pic seem to be just related to removing the front fascia of the drawer as far as I can tell (which I've done).

Thank you

Flubble · 1 Apr 2017 at 18:47

i had to remove some of these recently, in the last picture there's a black bit that twists around and right next to that a grey bit pulls down (i think) and do that on both sides and it should just come straight out unless it's all been screwed in too

ANDARIAL · 1 Apr 2017 at 20:57

Looks to be a press button thingy on the side or is it the bottom?
A closer better lit pic would help
if so press and then pull,or it can be lift/pul/jiggle

mickyflinn · 1 Apr 2017 at 21:06

Hammer time.

Madwelsh · 2 Apr 2017 at 00:13

nice kitchen there, sure you are already thinking 'why can't stuff just work?'

DXP55 · 2 Apr 2017 at 09:00

in the picture that shows the plastic bit with + sign on - does it swing up-- if you stand in front of drawer and put your hand on each side then with finger pull it up then lift at same time - I have metal sides on my kitchen drawers and I just have to grab each side and give quick jerk up and they unlock out of rails.

Mike1983 · 2 Apr 2017 at 16:17

Thanks for all of your replies.

Managed to figure it out today without resorting to a sledge hammer or angle grinder....

The draw locked into the slides via a near on fully concealed, sprung latch. Had to depress this latch with a screwdriver on one side, move the slide back to prevent latching and then repeat on the other side. Not very user friendly.

Removed the drawer and the problem was down to one of the slides not latching in the locked position. I removed part of the mechanism that interfaces with the soft close part.

Drawer now fully closes but the soft close is not as smooth (only half effective).

Thanks