DIY RV Storage Drawer 

Greatest idea I've seen on youtube. After months of debating the price of slides vs. the ease of making these, I dove in and in a couple of hours had a drawer made on my Class A for all the extra extension cords I carry. So easy and it was free because I have a great stash of scrap wood. Thank you for posting!

Awesome video...really. I'm a retired (Canadian) combat engineer and I'm about to get my first RV (TT), I'm about to jump full force into full-time RV-life and I've already begun researching and designing DIY mods. This was near the top of my list and you gave me some solid mods to refine my storage drawer design. I appreciate you, thanks. 🫡🫡🫡

Awesome job! I smashed that like button 73 times.

Thanks for a great video....In the process of redoing my outdoor kitchen....next comes the front storage compartment. We are redoing the whole trailer, inside and out.

Love the concept, and way cheaper than buying custom made shelves. I just finished a pair of these for my travel trailer. I tweaked the design a bit by adding some casters under the drawer so they pull out easier, and attached barrel bolt locks to the front to keep the drawers in place while moving.

Lol! I have the exact same table saw. Had it for about 38 years! From Canada.

Outstanding video sir! Straight to the point no nonsense and extremely informative thank you so much this is extremely helpful

Great job, thanks for the detailed instructions. I refuse to pay the price they want for the commerical ones. This is going to work great!!!

Thank you very much I've been sitting here beating my brains off the Wall trying to figure out what to do for my front storage compartment also.. This is been a big help.

You explained this very well. Great idea. We are so new, I haven't bought the tag yet. I am trying to figure out organization.

Fiance and I are in the process of buying a small tow behind. There is a large (to me) storage area. Didnt even think of this. Great idea!!!

Did this. Added a level for my solar panels

Great idea and video! I’m definitely going to show my husband this, as we are about to buy our first trailer with pass through storage this spring. Thanks so much for the excellent instructions 👍🏼👍🏼

Simpls easy design. Thanks for the video.

Thank you, I have been looking for something like this for quite a while. Great design and professional look.

I would have put a cutout on the rear back brace so I could put long, seldom used items under the drawer. Excellent video!

Quality work. So good, I decide to buy the guide rails online and save me a ton of time. Nice job my friend!!

II've been watching lots of videos searching for this...I'm tired of reaching way back into my tool-storage bay trying to open tool boxes, remove trays and pull out that one tool I need and unstacking layers of boxes to reach the box I need that tool from so I was thinking of making an open-bottom slide-out with 300 pound sliders so that the area below the lip of my bay opening (6 inches) can be accessed easily and I could utilize the height above it with another slide-out and double-stack my boxes. I was thinking of using square tubing for rigidity and because it takes up less volume than wood. I can't travel without all my GC tools so my requirements are different than most RV travelers. Appreciate your video a lot...it let's me know I can do this.

Solid work on a budget! Love it! 👍🏼😎

Nice design very functional I can see where you really thought this out. I can use this design for some drawers under the stairs in my shop also. Thanks for sharing

Cool project. I stopped in because I have kicked around the idea of doing the same thing on my Class A. I have a long compartment like yours but only one door on one side. (passengers side) So it's purpose I can only guess is for snow skies and long tent poles and such. I have 24" wide rubberized plywood runners that are tounge and groove flooring stacked in there that we use as a hard patio floor.( Keeps the mud and dirt out of the Coach.) But have been wanting to build a slide out outdoor kitchen in it's place since it's right next to the outside sink and hot/ cold shower hose. Here is a tip. You can use Pocket Door Rollers to make your drawer slide easy. The rollers are brass ball bearing rollers with a cable size groove in the edge. (This edge groove is perfect for for use as a cable guide roller pulley.) Which make them the perfect choice for running in "V" notched plywood side runners.(Tounge style of the tounge and groove flooring) You can buy these Pocket Door Rolllers at most box and hardware stores for about $8 to $14 dollars a pair. Your options are to seperate the rollers from the supplied bracketry and use the ball bearinged rollers individually, or keep them on the bracket and just double up on your rollers to spread the weight onto your runners. But using them on the supplied bracketry you can reduce the thickness of your plywood in this application and still have enough strength. Lots of other ways to use these brass rollers. I found them at Ace Hardware and used them for a different project, after searching for 1" to 1.25" ball bearinged cable rollers for a wall hugger recliner modification I wanted to do. Funny thing though, the Ace Sales Guy swore up and down they had no cable pulley rollers for sale in the entire store, then I happened to walk by the pocket and screen door parts isle and saw them. They were perfect. I bought 8! (All he had!) :)

Great project and video. You need a magnetic bit holder! LOL! I love the Ryobi tools as well.

I little bit of soap bar on the bottoms will help it slide. Also I'm surprised u didn't use drawer rails. But looks like a solid build in either case.

I just came across this video. I really like your design.

Mark the line on blue painters tape. No scribing with pocket knife.

Nicely done, Bruh...excellent video! And yeah, blokes with our level of life experience and physique are not meant to be crawling around inside a cabinet :-) I was fortunate....in our trailer the plywood bed platform is above the storage cabinet; is was easier for me to pull that off to do the drawer install Thanks for posting!

Great idea and well executed.

I use harbor freight beatings on a plywood base for the drawer to ride on. Slides like a dream with nom chance of warping or expanding.

Great job sir, very interesting to watch

Excellent job on this project...starting mine soon...

You did a nice succinct job with the video and a great project.

Thank you for this video! I now have a project to do this weekend! This is awesome

The wife and I have 2021 mini lite with a pass thru, right now its disorganized. I thought paying 600 for the drawers and frame, but I really like the idea of using wood. The doors on both sides are the same size I think.

Just found this video...a perfect inexpensive solution. I'm going to build them for my travel trailer...thanks!

Awesome video!!! Now to do something similar with the drawers I found on the side of the road... 🤔🤔🤔

Love it. Next spring's project.

Thank you so so much for the details !! I was hoping when I clicked on it that you did just that and I wasn’t disappointed.

Been looking since last June for exactly this thanks so much.

really good content The Furrminator. I shattered that thumbs up on your video. Keep on up the high-quality work.

Love the Ryobi tools. Thanks for the video.

Perfect, very informative.. will build this weekend. Might use wheels , frame same …

Lovely idea 👍

Very nice project. thanks for sharing.

Extremely helpful video; thank you for sharing all these details.

Very nice 👍🏻 thanks for sharing

Great simple design. Looks very sturdy! However, I believe you suffer from my disease. Probably most DIYers suffer from what I call the "overengineering disease." The three quarter plywood definitely makes a very sturdy drawer but as you showed us, it adds quite a bit of weight. I believe you could use thinner material and still make something strong enough to do the job you are trying to accomplish. A quarter inch bottom panel glued and nailed into a dado in the bottom of the drawer I think would work, especially if you added the dividers into the drawer. (Without the dividers I think quarter inch plywood would probably be too light for that long of a drawer carrying that amount of weight). I also believe you could use half inch material for the sides and definitely for the frame the drawer slides into. You need the three quarter boards for the runners for sure. I recently made some shelves out of half inch plywood with inch wide quarter inch plywood strips glued and pin nailed around the periphery of the shelf. I've loaded some very heavy hardware on these shelves and they haven't bowed even a little. I hope maybe this might help someone who is particularly concerned about the weight issue but wants to use this wonderful design.

Great Video. Thank you.

Good work

Great video! You are a lot of help!

Good video Very thorough.

Well done and great DIY

Like your video but will use 4 long plastic containers with tops bought from Walmart or target 2 on each side take items out that I need slide it back in and set 4 collapsible chairs on top of containers got a pretty wide storage doors they fit nicely when I pull out a chair I set a container on chair look for what I need slide back in container put chair on top

Really nice video! Thank you... I think you just saved me some money!!

Thanks for the great idea. Something to do in order to get ready for this season.

Great video ! To the point, Thank You SIR !

Great project and very well documented , However I would have used paste wax on the drawer slides

Great RV Mod. and great video. I have already began copying your build. Thanks for sharing and safe travels.

I'm going to do it. I have a travel trailer with a storage area similar to yours but it only has a door on one side. Pretty sure I can make it work with a longer drawer thanks for the great idea.

thank you for sharing!

Very nice job. I was looking for this very idea to add a drawer or two to our new 5th wheel as we get it ready for long road trips. Subbed!

Nice job

Great solution to a problem I also have. Thanks! I am now a new subscriber!

Thank you for this video. Great idea! Just what I need. :)

nice construction. i need every square inch of spare in that compartment and this halved it. i really like the slide operation though. maybe i can utilize it elsewhere

Great video, nice work , and so very handy to use, thanks for sharing ,

Great idea

Thanks

Definitely add any weight contributed by the drawer to your tongue weight load calculation, since the drawer is forward the axle.

Thank you for sharing. I just subscribed. 🇺🇸

Nice job sir!!

Can put some UHMW tape on the runners to make it slide like butter in and out

Excellent DYI video. Have you ever thought about adding UHMW (Ultra-high Molecular Weight) Polyethylene Tape to the tracks?

You have a new follower. Great explanations. I am going to use this..

Observation ... wood on wood would be difficult. Why didn’t you put small wheels on the frame like roller ball bearings. Nice presentation, solved several questions I had about these draweres

Thank you for this presentation in a drawer I want to use a drawer to widen my Ford Ranger so I can sleep with my feet sticking out in the store so I don't have to make it wider and I'll pick up a lot of space because most people run the bed lengthwise and as a result they're losing all kinds of a space usable space so if I go sideways and stick it out the put might extend my feet out when I'm stopped on camping and have a disk space Lee a box that can keep my feet and keep nice and warm your having insulated could be very very very nice I like the concept thank you very much

I wonder if some edge banding on the slides would help it move smoothly.

Thanks for the ideas. Let me ask you about using wood screws or any screw for that matter when building and or working with plywood. Do you need to drill pilot holes before installing the screws themselves? Thanks

Good Stuff thanks!!!

GOOD JOB THANK YOU

I'd give you 10 thumbs up if I could, well done, excellent video. Also beeswax works wonders on wood to wood slides.

Nice job.

Great idea great job For your slider you can use wax

Nice!

Measure twice cut once

EXCELLENT!!!

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Nice drawer, but just wondering, why not use drawer slides?

Wonderful idea. How do you determine what length of screws you can use to support the "L" brackets to the floor of the camper storage area? Thx!

Great video. Just finished one that is just a little differant. Was wondering what size screws you used to screw into the floor and hold the tray?

nice I probably would try a metal rail & either kill it or totally screw it up, thanks i enjoyed this, ...but definitely going with a mo-ryde $516 {just 4 christmas} 20x90deep from (after searching for 3-4 hours over 2 nights) 'PPL rv consignment' site ..nice!

Thanks for the vid. I feel like I can do it on my own pretty much and I’m not that handy with tools and such. Do you feel like you lose/lost some of your storage space because of the drawer? I am kind of worried about that. Thanks.

I think if you angled the base, it would have fit through the opening.

Looks like a Keystone Laredo?

use canning wax for oil

Loved your video brother. I was wondering how to build storage boxes where the door opens down from the side not the top. we are building an overland camper, its our first project, and we need to either find or build storage drawers that will sit on each side of the flatbed. They have to open down on the side to use them properly because the camper will sit on top of them. Any advice? Thanks

I'm going to have trouble ripping those pieces straight without a table saw.

excellent video but keep missing how you get it so it will not fall out forward>

Does it swell any when it's rainy or humid?

add UHMW Polyethylene Film Tape( low friction tape) for easier sliding?

How has it held up?