How to choose guides for drawers

How to choose guides for drawers

The cabinets acquired in shop with drawers can give unpleasant surprises. After short operation the guides of boxes are sometimes deformed so that normally it is impossible to close them. The best exit – to replace guides on better.

Instruction

1. To choose new guides which will help boxes with your furniture quietly to be closed, absolutely simply. The producer of furniture fittings should not be the main criterion when choosing – them in the market now very much and many, and not the fact that the fake will not get to you. Pay attention first of all to thickness of metal of which the parts which were pleasant to you are made. You can check in shop of accessories guides to the touch – to determine metal thickness, rollers or balls how well function, examine products externally.

2. Be defined what guides it is more preferable to you. Each of versions has both the advantages, and shortcomings. Roller guides – the cheapest and simple. It is necessary to establish them unless for financial reasons if it is necessary to use product seldom and special loadings are not expected. Metalboxes – more advanced products which have metal sidewalls. Heavy loads are also undesirable to them.

3. Ball guides more gruzopodjemna also give the chance to put forward boxes completely, are almost silent and durable. At the correct leaving serve long and smoothly. At guides of the flush mounting design such is that the product is attached to box not hundred the party of sidewalls, and from bottom. So more favourably and in the esthetic plan, and the mechanism is protected from dirt hit.

4. Both parts which should be fixed on the furniture body have to have special ledges for ensuring fixing of box in situation when the box is completely put forward – it will prevent its loss. Make sure that guides have good presentation. Just it is very desirable to unpack box and to examine product on availability of defects, mechanical damages and so on. In guides twist balls or rollers, check, how freely they move whether there are no side backlashes. Make sure that all parts of set densely adjoin to sidewalls.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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