A Better Drawer Slide! / How to Install SALICE F70 Undermount Drawer Slides 

It's good to see that Blum has some competition. Keep up the great work!

In the cabinet shop I work in we have a automated machine that does dovetails, sometimes we make our own drawers other times we get them from Conastoga along with our doors, all depends on how busy we are. Quite honestly even at Conastoga quality levels they they make a nicer cheapper product than we can. We have specialty shop make us 8ft maple boards that we cut up into drawers that are already grooved and prefinished. Where Conastoga and other companies I have noticed use those boards that look like they are made out of a all the scrap cut offs from other projects that they glue back up to make new boards out of. While visually that looks so cheap, construction wise so much more stable.

I heard a saying once, Every day that goes by & you don't learn something is a wasted day. That window bench is gonna look cool when done. Hoping all is well guys, Dirty Jersey out!!

Great video.. appreciate the work you guys do in doing these videos.

Just curious, Rob. Why move the slide and redrill the mounting holes instead of using the built in front to back adjustment? Bill

great video. i see you used salices vertical mount slides , thing is I don't know the difference between their vertical mount slide and standard slide for the f70

I have installed the Blum brand before, and I have seen Salice ones, but never used. What do you like better about the Salice brand, if you don't mind me asking? Thank you!

Looking at Salice slides…have you guys used the Salice “futura” drawer slides? If so, how do you think they compare to the F70s?

Is there a preferred online distributor that you would recommend for Salice?

Are the Salice slide sold as individual or as a pair? Thanks for sharing

$60 for that drawer? That makes money all day long, incredible price fellas. 🎯

I love the f70, they're fabulous and they have the rack and piñon that allows you not to use the bars for wide drawers, but for most drawers they're complete over kill, on my smaller drawers I still use, the Dynapro, I like them the best, Blum is over rated and over priced they're good at marketing

Looking up the Aussie supplier right now!

Thanks for posting this . I’ve been out of the game for a while. I’ve used side mounts 30 years ago . ( bearing type ) . and tandems at a kitchen company. Qst. When you have this system figured out completely . Is it faster and easier? Seems like it has more user friendly adjustments? I can see the drawer construction is different also . Do Salice /Blum / Other. Generally share the same specs. for the width of the drawer versus opening of the cabinet ?

I have a few sets of a different brand, looked at them for an hour, tried to youtube them, went with old school self closing.....now I understand how they work.

I came across your video just to show to my shop guy how to pronounce SALICE, haha. Anyway I ended up watching a bit further just to see how you set your slides inside the cabinet, specially with the FACEFRAME application. I don't like the way you do. I worked as a carpenter for over 6 years in a shop in Port Chester NY, custom face frame cabinets is all I was doing for years. I don;t like to set the slides like you show (placed sitting in the bottom of the cabinet) just setting the 5/32 set back. What I do, I place them 1/8 of the ground too. They will sit behind the DRAWER FACE, so you will never going to see it through the 1/8" gap between drawer faces / doors. ALSO the 1/8" "room" for adjustment that you are going to have if some of your installers do a "NO GOOD" job. So if they ever set the cabinets out of level, or if they tweak squeeze or distort the cabinet during install you will have room for adjustment DOWN at the slides. Because a lot of the time only lowering the DRAWER face does not fix the problem. Sometimes something is distorted and only moving the slides will fix your problem.

Great video . Nice to see Rob in front of the camera .Keep it coming fellas

Thank you for the info

I can't find the Salice F70 in that link. Only showing the Salice Progressa+Smove.

Are there any undermount slides with soft close and push-to-open besides the movento Blumotion+Tip-On?

Yes!! More Rob! I’ll be switching to the Salice as well. Definitely more superior to the Blum. And one clip does all the adjustments versus 3 different clips for the Blum.

happy to find this. thank you.

I have moved from blum to grass.