There are a lot of different types of drawer slides out there. In this post, we will talk about the best undermount drawer slides for your bathroom vanities, kitchen cabinets, an odds and ends drawer in the hall, bedside table, pull-out for clothing in the bedroom or home offices.
To qualify as best, a drawer slide needs to have, first of all, the right load bearing capacity for the widest variety of applications. Most failures seen among drawer slides can be traced back to their load bearing capacity. If your drawer, when fully laden, weighs more than the capacity of the drawer slides, they cannot hold the drawer and sooner or later will fail. If you need so-called heavy duty drawer slides for your furniture, you should look at those with high load bearing capacity.
Second, best drawer slides come also in full and single extension. If you want easy access to the drawer of your vanity bathroom, for example, without any loss of storage space, you will need full extension drawer slides. Full extension drawer slides must have higher load bearing capacity, be extremely stable and provide excellent sag values, especially when the drawer is fully laden. Single extension drawer slides usually have lower load bearing capacity and as such are suitable for smaller furniture.
Third, the best drawer slides glide smoothly and quietly, and open and close softly and effortlessly. The soft close feature ensures that your drawers will close quietly and gently so that they don’t slam shut or make noise when they close.
Here at Malaj Plus, after twenty years of woodworking, based on our experience and the feedback received from our customers, we believe that the Blum drawer slides are the best, and among them we use TANDEM with BLUMOTION technology.
Blum undermount drawer slides is a runner system installed under drawers. Undermount drawer slides are concealed underneath the drawer. Therefore, besides the fact that you do not see bulky hardware every time that you open your drawer, undermount drawer slides leave room for more storage area inside the drawer.
The greatest advantage of Blum drawer slides is the wide range of options that offer. Their drawer slides come in various lengths, load bearing capacity as well as types of extension. That gives you freedom in designing any types of furniture that you wish.