How to adjust Ikea kitchen drawers to compensate for things being not quite level or square after the semi-flexible cabinets have been set up on a not entirely level floor but with a dead flat countertop.
This video helped me a lot. We had a few drawers scraping off each other. Less than 5 mins and it's fixed. Thanks for taking the time to make and upload this. .
Thanks for the positive feedback. Ikea instructions are often not entirely clear and it took me a couple of installations to figure this out for myself.
Frontmost screw right side turn clockwise to shift drawer front left. Rear right screw turn clockwise to move front up. The vertical adjustment is incremental. On my installation it feels like the left-right adjustment screws are stripped, they just spin either way.
True - The guy just drones on and on and does not even have the camera pointed at what he is doing at one point ... a 20 second video would explain this perfectly.
Kind of pointless to not show how to adjust SIDE TO SIDE, since thats a common issue in my experience. The side to side screw doesnt seem to do anything.
Left to right adjustment really does not work at all, I'll turn clockwise or counter and do not see any difference. Its getting to the point where my screwdriver is ruining that plastic screwhead. Any suggestions?
In my case the problem is that the bottom drawer fits flush with the front of the counter but the 2 upper drawers touch the counter front only on the left and do not touch on the right. Is there an adjustment that can move the drawer in and out on each side rather than up and down?
I am having trouble with the draws inside my kitchen pantry. I need to push to one side in order for them not to hit the main door on their way out. Any Ideas? I got the side to side adjustment all the way to that side :/
There Should be no need for side to side adjustment, but I think there is another screw in there for that, just I never use it. Just if the whole thing is to the side too far one way or another, something else must have gone very wrong and it is not just a matter of the cabinets settling on an uneven floor.
8digitPDX Actually, by fooling around I figured out how to move the drawer front side to side - it's the larger philips-headed barrel that shows through the access port. I had to cheat one drawer in a corner sideways because it interfered slightly with the facing drawer handles.
Steve Hoge I am actually wondering if you could say more about that. Like others have commented here, Ikea's instructions says the big screws allow side-to-side adjustment but no matter how much I screw/unscrew, it does not move side to side.
Steve Hoge I finally figured out by pulling the mechanism out on one of the drawers the other day. The actual screws inside the drawers are made of plastic. Turn this screw too much the first time around and will never work again until you pull apart the adjusting mechanism, take out the plastic screw, and reshape the threads.
