Noticed a huge difference in drawer slides after switching from side-mount to under-mount

I rebuilt a customer's kitchen in Austin last spring and used side-mount slides, then did another job this winter with Blum under-mount slides on the same drawer sizes. The difference in smoothness and how much more weight they hold is night and day. Has anyone else found the extra cost worth it for the soft-close function alone?

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wendy7213d ago

Wait, are we really comparing plastic clips to actual drawer hardware?

leow9013d ago

I gotta push back on the "night and day" thing a bit. I've put in probably a hundred side-mount slides for heavy duty storage drawers and they hold weight just fine if you get the good ones. The under-mount soft close is nice, sure, but I've had so many of those plastic clips break on job sites that I kinda lost faith in them. Plus side-mounts are way easier to level when you're working alone. I'll take a solid side-mount with a separate soft close damper any day, costs less and I don't gotta worry about some little plastic part failing in five years. Just my two cents.

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