Installing Full Extension Drawer Slides in Face Frame Base Cabinet (Soft Close)

In this video I show how I installed slides in a kitchen base cabinet in order to improve organization. The manufacturer video showed installing in a frameless cabinet, but no video for face frame, so I thought I'd do a video. This might not be the best way, the right way, the way you'd do it, etc, it just happens to be the way I did it, and it seems to have worked.
Many of these slide installation videos concentrated on wood working (making the boxes). This video does NOT concentrate on wood working. Mine is a very simple design: the drawer (box), is just a rectangle of 3/4 plywood, and the sides are 3.5 x 1/2 leftovers from an earlier project, glued and pinned. Everything does need to be precise and square for the slides to work right, so the video shows some of the techniques that I used to get the slides installed precisely. Note that I'm installing inside a factory base cabinet that I presumed was square; if you have non-factory cabinets, you really can't make some of the assumptions I made.
On the non-hinge side, I installed directly against the face frame, and in the back, used a back bracket. On the hinge side, I installed against blocks, without the back bracket. You wouldn't need the back brackets, but I'd say it's slightly quicker than spacer blocks.
My narration was supposed to have a comment about my design leaving too much space on the hinge side; I could have been 1/4 or so wider without any interference. If I had to do this again, I might install the right slide right over the hinge, and make it so I didn't need spacer blocks, but instead use back brackets.
I bought 10 sets of these slides, so by the time the last set is installed, I'll know what I'm doing, LOL!

[@BuiltToBoost]

I installed new soft close slides on mine with rear mount brackets and my slides are quite literally hanging by a hair on those brackets. I am absolutely stumped on this

[@sengsational]

When you say hanging by a hair, are you saying that the bracket doesn't overlap the slide very much? If you measure from the front face of the cabinet to the back wall of the cabinet, what is that dimension? Could you put a block of wood on the back wall of the cabinet so that the bracket is closer to the front?

[@BuiltToBoost]

@@sengsational yea they were barely able to sit inside the bracket. I added spacers on the sides of the cabinets right behind the face frame and screwed the slides into those. A much easier solution rather than them being on the brackets

[@sengsational]

@@BuiltToBoost Yes, the brackets on the back wall are just one option for mounting. If you can get the slides preciously parallel using the spacers on the sides, that's a good solution.

[@karenmckamey8287]

Thank you!!!!! I watched so many videos and this is exactly what I was looking for!

[@sengsational]

Glad it hit the mark for you. I've done a few more cabinets the same way and they have separate videos. When I searched, there were a lot of videos making a big deal about the wood working, but I went simple there, but still effective.

[@EngineerMikeF]

Fyi, 7/16" modified pan head screws work well for this application as well as other uses

[@sengsational]

The flat head screws they provide go into the slightly oversized holes in the slide, self centering and making the screw almost flush with the surface of the slide. I'd be concerned about substituting a screw with a different head since it could be proud of the surface, and possibly interfere with the slide mechanism. Not to say an alternate screw would definitely mess it up, but it could. Nothing wrong with the screws they provided.