Kitchens by Riland

Kitchen unit drawers add value and beauty to the kitchen area and perhaps the entire home. It is not uncommon to find many homeowners unable to organize their kitchen cabinets and the pantry because the cabinets are dark deep areas that are difficult to access and arrange. However, kitchen unit drawers are meant to give access to the units from the outside without having to crawl deep inside. Further, they make the frequently used items stored in them easily accessible as they are only a pull away. With kitchen unit drawers, you get the convenience and value in a single package.

Many people tend to confuse kitchen unit drawers with pull out shelves, which is quite misleading despite the subtle difference between the two. Typically, kitchen unit drawers have a face matching the front of the kitchen unit and the facing will close on the cabinet face front. A pull out shelve on the other hand, as the name may suggest, is designed to be installed inside the unit and is completely covered when the doors of the unit close.

With that said, if your home has old in-built units or wooden furniture, one problem that you are highly likely to experience is sticking kitchen unit drawers. One of the main things that may make a drawer stick is when a lot of paint accumulates over time on the side of the drawer. In such a case, the side of the drawer tends to rub up against the unit, thus causing the drawer to stick.

Using a heat gun, you can apply heat on the accumulated heavy paint then once it has softens; you can then simply lift the paint off using a putty knife. Sticky kitchen unit drawers can also frequently be improved by sanding them down a little using a 60 grit sandpaper. To make it easy to sand down the side of the drawers, you can wrap the sandpaper around a block of wood to act as a handle.

The other cause of sticky kitchen unit drawers is that at times the wooden drawer glide on the base isn’t well aligned hence rubs against the mating drawer glide inside. It goes without saying that one of the toughest things to do is try and operate something affected by wood to wood friction. In such a case scenario, you can always rub a stick of paraffin wax on a drawer glide for it to operate smoothly. A bar soap or old candle can serve the same purpose.