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Full extension, not three quarters
The new runners bring the whole box out of the cabinet, so the back of the drawer stops being storage you never see.
Pull-out shelves
Soft-close drawers in Louisville are a runner swap, so the drawer boxes and the fronts you already have usually stay exactly where they are.
Soft-close drawers in Louisville means replacing the runners under your existing drawer boxes with full-extension slides that have the damper built in. The boxes and the fronts stay, and every front is realigned afterwards.
Two things change at once. The drawer comes all the way out instead of stopping short, and it pulls itself closed over the last inch rather than being slammed.
Where a drawer box itself has failed, that box is rebuilt or replaced and the front is reused.
The new runners bring the whole box out of the cabinet, so the back of the drawer stops being storage you never see.
Slide ratings are matched to what the drawer carries, because a pan drawer and a cutlery drawer are not the same job.
Every front is realigned once the runners are in, so the gaps across the run read straight.
Each stage is signed off before the next one starts.
We measure the room itself rather than working from the plan, because walls are rarely square and the plan is rarely what got built. Every opening gets checked.
You get a layout and a written estimate broken down by stage, so you can see what the doors cost against the boxes against the install. Free, nothing to sign.
Cabinetry is built to the measurements we took, in the wood, door style and finish you picked. Lead time depends on the scope and we tell you before you commit.
Scribed to the walls, levelled, and fixed properly. Hardware adjusted so every door and drawer sits straight before we leave.
Full extension changes more day to day than the soft-close does.
Kitchens that work and annoy. If drawers stick partway, drop at the front when loaded, or bang every time somebody shuts one, the runners have worn out while the cabinetry has not.
It is also worth doing alongside anything else. If the kitchen is already apart for shelving or refacing, the runner swap adds little time.
We pull each drawer and measure the box depth, the cabinet depth and the side clearance, since slide length and mounting type both come off those numbers.
Then the load matters. A deep pan drawer needs a heavier rating than a cutlery drawer, and using one rating for the whole kitchen is how the heavy ones fail first.
Runners go in, boxes go back, and every front is adjusted so the reveals line up across the run.
Priced per drawer rather than per project, which keeps it among the cheapest work here. A full kitchen of drawers still sits well under refinishing, which nationally runs $2,000 to $4,500.
Slide quality is the main variable. Heavier-rated, better-damped runners cost more per drawer, and on the drawers you use daily that difference is the one you notice.
Doing them all at once is cheaper per drawer than coming back for the rest later, since most of the time goes into pulling the kitchen apart and setting the fronts straight again.
If the boxes are stapled together and coming apart at the corners, new runners will not save them. Rebuilding the boxes is part of cabinet repair in Louisville.
Deep cabinets without drawers at all gain more from pull-out shelves for cabinets in Louisville, and blind corners need corner cabinet organizers. Where the fronts are dated as well, cabinet refacing in Louisville covers those, and we work across the metro including cabinets in Prospect.
Get a free written estimate and we will look at your Louisville kitchen drawers before quoting.
Usually yes. The boxes and the fronts stay and only the runners change, then every front gets realigned so the gaps read straight.
New runners will not save a box that is coming apart at the corners. That box gets rebuilt or replaced and the original front is reused.
Yes. A deep pan drawer needs a heavier rating than a cutlery drawer, and specifying one rating across the whole kitchen is why the heavy ones fail first.
Full extension is the bigger daily change. Bringing the whole box clear of the opening means you can see the back of the drawer, which older side-mount runners never allowed.
We stay inside about 20 miles of Louisville, close enough to measure, template and install without the schedule slipping. These are the areas we cover most often.
Tell us the room and what you want out of it. You get a written estimate broken down by stage, free, with nothing to sign.