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Drawer soft-close devices - 1 or 2?

I'm currently having a kitchen fitted and I noticed that on 600mm pan drawers and on a tall 400mm larder pullout they've only fitted an anti-slam device on one side when it's clearly possible to fit...

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What type of mechanism do you have on the drawers? Most drawer boxes have a soft close system built into the drawer runners themselves. Also, if it is a tall 400 pull-out unit, why would there be any...

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Hi, Snezza. Thanks for responding. I am not an expert, and I have assumed that anti-slam, soft-close and damper devices all have a similar function. The one used on the larder pullout seems to be a...

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It's fine to only fit them on one side.

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Thanks, chippie244. If it were for your own kitchen, what would you do? Trevarrick.

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I would use hinges and drawer runners with them built in.

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That was my point really........!!!!!!

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Re: Drawer soft-close devices - 1 or 2?

Does anyone else have a view on whether it's normal practice to fit only one damper/anti-slam gadget instead of two to a tall 400mm larder unit or to 600mm pan drawers?  I'm having a kitchen installed...

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Trevarrick, There are usually soft closers fitted to each and every Drawer runner. If the door on your 400 pull out is Hinged on 1 side only, then softclosers on 1 side will be adequate. If the door is...

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Thanks for your help, Snezza. That reinforces my instinctive feelings about drawer units with a damper on one side only. As regards the tall larder pullout, there is one central heavy-duty runner...

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