It definitely turns the black hole into unusable space. Kind of a bummer!īTW, I looked at a "compatible with Ikea Alex" drawer organizer on Amazon and noticed that it is 14.5 inches deep. On top of that, you would need to replace the sides of the drawers, or possibly have to rebuild them, in order to handle the "beefier" glides.Īll in all, for the OP, the best way to handle the "black hole" in the Alex drawers is to put bigger stuff in the back, or use containers that can be lifted out. For a five-drawer Alex, the glides would cost more than the whole unit costs. Those that support my work surface in my stamping cabinet were $55 per set of two.and that was many years ago. I'm pricing some cabinetry right now and the least expensive full-extension glides are about $20 per set. Either the drawer has to be shorter than the glide (if it is a two part glide) or you use a three-part full-extension glide. In order to have a full-extension opening, one of two things needs to happen. The cheaper the glide is built, the more "overlap" needs to be maintained to hold the weight of a filled drawer.
They need to remain overlapped to support the weight of the drawer and its contents. Because the drawer goes all the way to the back of the cabinet, and the glides are a two-part glide, they cannot open fully. On the drawer, they are recessed into a slot on the drawer. Yes, the glides go all the way front to back in the cabinet.surface mount on the walls.
I asked my son (who builds custom furniture) about the glides on the Alex cabinets a few months back. You would need to know if they were side-mount or bottom-mount (I'm guessing side-mount) as well as the length needed. You can get them at Home Depot, Lowes, etc. To Diane's point, you could replace the existing glides with longer ones if you were so inclined.
You can't see them but they stop the escapees.Īnd funny, I store rulers the other direction - front to back -in a long box, so they become the longer things. So I put IKEA cardboard magazine holders across the back. The cabinet over the oven/microwave has built-in dividers for cookie trays, etc., and round pans would roll back and disappear. The space in the far back of our shallow kitchen drawers isn't needed so small boxes were put there so everything doesn't slide back. On my Sterilite/Iris/whatever desktop drawer units, I cut the stops off the drawers with some snips so I can pull the whole drawer out if I want to, for EXACTLY the reason we're discussing here! Things like border punches and rulers and paper crimpers and such. I'm completely unfamiliar with these drawers, but that's one of my pet peeves on most drawers! I put things that are long enough to extend into the "visible" space at the back, and shorter things in the front.
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