Thank you for this video. My pot drawer became locked with a pan's handle keeping it closed. No way to get in from the sides only a small opening above, but there was a smaller drawer above it. I watched your video and learned that I could push in the levers on the bottom front of the above cabinet. I pushed the 2 levers, pulled out the cabinet and was able to put my arm into the bottom cabinet and move the pan's handle out of the rolling mechanism. You sir are a life saver with this video. Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You have earned a new subscriber. :)
This video was like finding the long-lost last piece of the puzzle. I had the last drawer which seemed impossible to remove... but not anymore. Thanks Mike!
OMG! You are amazing. This is one of the best instructional videos I've ever watched for a number of reasons. First of all, you covered so many different types of drawer latches so that people like me don't have to watch 5-6 videos until finally stumbling upon the right one. Next, no music, no extra blah, blah, blah - right to the point with such clarity & detail. You also don't assume prior knowledge and provide just the right amount of info to help the novice as well as the best DYIers. I also appreciate your genuineness as you struggled with the first drawer; which, BTW, is exactly like an old one that I just refinished). Last of all, thank you for taking the time to position your camera to capture what viewers really need to see in order to understand. So appreciative to people like you taking time to help others. Very grateful (obviously) LOL.
What a life saver, I could not figure it out for the life of me. Your voice was so reassuring, I thought ok I can do this . I did it awesome ! Thank you so much😊
Please help !!! I have a chest of drawers that has the same mechanism as in your video I removed the knobs to put all new ones on two of the drawers will not open how do I get them open thank you for anything you can tell me
Is it that you removed the knob and now don't have anything to grab to pull it open? Maybe insert a 3" screw into the hole until it grabs and then you should be able to pull it open enough to replace the knob.
@@MikeKlimek Yes I removed the Knob and had nothing to grab , I did what you suggested I used a screwdriver and I was able to open 3 drawers !! I cannot thank you enough 🙂
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!😅 I struggled with my kitchen drawer for years until I finally googled RU-vid and found your video. I have those high end drawers with the handles underneath on each side and poof! Pulled the drawer out, tightened all my loose screws and I’m now good to go.
I would empty the drawer completely first. That should make it easier to see what you are working with. Can you tell if the drawer rides along a top rail or a bottom rail like in the video? I assume there are no side rails?
Thank you for your video. I am still having extreme trouble removing my kitchen drawer. It has metal sliders, but I don't see any levers. There are 2 long, thin black pieces that could be levers, - the right side is curved downward and left, upward within the slider in the back. However, pushing both down or up, or one down and one up, does not disengage/unlock the drawer so I can remove it. Any suggestions? I would appreciate this so much.
I must have Older guides no clips snaps or levers obvious on ball bearing side tracks. I’ve checked carefully both sides inside top and bottom of drawer. Where else might whatever may it 😢be? Andrew
Thank you so much for this video!!! I was finally able to remove several drawers and rescue my mittens, bras, socks, and a straw hat that had gotten wedged behind my bottom drawers!!! A problem I'd had for years finally solved due to the clear info in your video! Again, thank you so much❤!
Wow! Mine is the last one :) really helped me. Now I need to know how to align it because I have a wide drawer where the left side is lower than the right side. How to align it? Thanks!
Great video showing different types of sliding drawers buy do how to say this I have yet to see any video that goes to the very bottom drawers. thank you
Are you kidding me?!?! LOL!! I have always thought of myself of a pretty darn good handyman until it came to the drawer slide in my house. I seriously could not figure how to get the drawers removed to that I could realign them. I decided to RU-vid my dilemma and found your video! THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND KNLOWLEGE!!
Hello…. Thank you for your video. I have a dresser from the late 80’s - early 90’s….. its from Norway (names of store in NJ USA….Scandinavian Gallery and House of Norway). They have a side rails on each side of drawer but no clips or teeth or anything i can see to detach drawers….. any ideas?
The answer is somewhere on the rails. A couple things come to mind: extend the drawer all the way out and lift up. Next is there a button or tab that you can push in or pull out? Somehow the drawer will pull out or lift out
Thank you so much for this video! Recently bought some new dressers for my fiance and I to have adequate storage, but couldn't figure out how to get the drawers out to be able to lift them upstairs until the section on the floating vanity/wall hung drawer section surprisingly. Thanks again!
All drawers are not removable…I have tried everything and my nightstand drawers will not come out…no glides nothing to unclip…I can take a picture of the underneath to show you…help….
Really liked your video. It will help me with a lot of my drawers. I am struggling with a chest of drawers that have middle rails and the rail seems to have a piece of metal in the middle of the rail. It doesn’t seem bendable. I can fully understand how that metal piece keeps the drawer from coming out. What do I do to get that drawer out?
Thank you very much. It was very helpful. In my case there was a small screw attaching the drawer to the metal which needed to be removed . Many thanks..
Same! Mine have the rubber piece to stop it and rail under in the middle. I keep trying to pull out and lift and wiggle ao many times but it won’t budge 😞help!
Thanks, the closes one to my vanity is the last drawer with soft close actuators. Yet I could figure mine out, it did have a plastic piece I'm worried to crack it if I force it
Thanks for letting me post. I was able to solve this. It turned out that I have clips. If one side's clip tip points up you push up and push down if the other side's clip tip points down - push both at the same time and pull the drawer out until it unlocks. Thank you again.
Good video for several types if drawers. However, no guidance for drawers with side rail guides and "lifting" once it is pulled all the way out and no bottom guide on the drawer. That's the kind of drawer I'm struggling with. 😫
I just encountered this problem. I'm used to just pulling and lifting a drawer out. Our new dresser doesn't work that way. I'll see which one this is. Thanks for the post.
Thank you so much for covering so many different types!! I could not figure out how to remove the last type of pull-out drawer you covered in the video 😅
I have nightstand drawers with a semi circle, hard plastic stop that's screwed in on both ends to the wooden drawer glide. Hopefully that makes sense. I'm sending pictures that aren't very good because of where they're fixed but hopefully you can get an idea and tell me how I can get these drawers out.🤞 5:49
I been having a problem opening and closing one of my dresser drawer for a long time, somehow it was not catching right.. Thanks to your video I was able to remove the drawer and to my surprise the center wooden cleat was worn out and cracked. Now I need to replace it but I don't know who would do such small wood work. Do you have any suggestions on where to go so I can replace it?? Thank you!!!
You can do a search for "furniture repair", or call a handyman. It shouldn't be too difficult. There used to be a franchise called the furniture medic. Not sure if they are still around though.
@@MikeKlimek Thank you kindly for your reply. After asking you for help I contacted 3 cabinet shops but none of them did that kind work. I didn't think about furniture repairs. Thanks again..
I had another variation of the vanity draws which had a grey plastic spring push within the rail. Took forever to find it! I did a video for my ref in 5 years if I ever have to remove them again.
@@MikeKlimek Thanks Mike. I'd have posted it here but pretty sure you can't do things like that in comments. Your video really helped to just demonstrate there are so many different ways to remove drawers that I realised it could be just about anywhere. If it's of use I'll take out the draw again at some point and send you a slightly better quality video and you can append it to the end of yours.
Mike, very good video. But, not complete. I am dealing with a single metal center mounted slide. I have to move the cabinet upstairs and tried to lighten the load by removing the drawers--but no luck. I did not want to force it to avoid breaking any parts. So far no luck.
Certainly there are more styles of drawers than I had access to for this video. There has to be a release there. Worst case remove the contents of the drawers
I have an oak bedroom set with a bottom drawer that won't go all the way in or out. Can't remove it. It has a single center metal on metal rail. Another drawer in the set came out accidentally and went back in easily. so I know the bottom rail is wider to accept a narrow top rail within it, and the bottom rail has a moving slider within it. So it's a 3 piece system. There is no accessible lever or tab. If I try to force it more than already attempted, metal is gonna bend. What do I do?
Thank you so much for making this video. I had spent a good 30 minutes trying to figure out this drawer. It has a red plastic piece on each side but I couldn't make it move to release the drawer. Turns out the drawer is like the last one and the drawer came off in a snap after sliding the two white pieces out. Appreciate your instruction. And now I know how to remove all sorts of drawers. 🙂
Thanks for the video. You didn't cover the type of drawer I have, but I'm sure helped others out. Mine has a wooden rail underneath in the center like your first one, but at the VERY FRONT of that rail it has a plastic triangular shaped piece on the top and where you showed the back of your drawer where that brown plastic piece was to start the insertion onto the rail it is not completely open like yours, there is a kind of female matching t-shape closing it off in the back and that triangle piece on top of the rail has to match up with the t-opening to get it on. I got a drawer out by pulling hard (thinking it was the first type you showed) and the plastic piece in the back broken and the drawer came out. But NOW, even seeing how the catch and the rail are shaped I can't figure out how to get them out, obviously you have to mate up the triangle on the rail and the female slot in the back, but for the life of me I haven't figured out how to do that. I have broken another of the back clips trying to figure it out.
@@MikeKlimek Hi! It is a mechanical not wooden single centre underneath with no plastic tab (on any of the 3 drawers so not broken off). Your help is very appreciated. Soula
I have west Elm tower base 3 drawer mid century modern end table in bedroom top drawer is not aligned properly. I can get the drawer off using the clips on the slides but still can not get it to close properly. It’s actually more off now than when I started. Suggestions? I do not see any other way to reattach or reposition the rails. It has been misaligned since purchase but that was before Covid and as this is a 2nd home I haven’t been here to fix .
Potentially useful note/discovery: I have a desk drawer with a bottom wooden track, similar to the dresser drawer you show in the first section here. However, instead of having a stop at the back of the drawer, there is a little lever at the front of the... drawer hole? The cavity in which the drawer lives. So you need to pull the drawer out most of the way, stick something like a screwdriver or ruler into the gap to hold down the lever, and then pull the drawer the rest of the way out. This can be a two-person job since it's pretty tricky to hold down the lever with sufficient strength WHILE pulling the drawer straight outward.
Tysvm!! We moved into this rental, i could see "stuff" jammed into the back of the bottom kitchen drawer. I had no idea how to get it out. After using tongs, spatulas, and whatever long handle things i could find, imagine my surprise when i found this video. (I have the drawer with the orange handles) Easy once you know how. Again, thank you very much.❤
Thank you My granddaughter has been trying to get her bottom cabinet drawers out. I tried to give her suggestions over the phone; being that we are more than 300 miles away from each other. So I took RU-vid and your site came up and here we are. I'm not sure if any of these locking mechanisms are on her drawers but you have demonstrated enough of them that she should be able to figure out how to unlock her cabinet drawers. Again thank you.
I could't figure out the vanity one at all. Must have spent half an hour trying to yank it out. I was ready to just smash the cabinet and replace completely! Thank you very much!
Something fell behind the drawer. This was very helpful. I've never had to remove a drawer. My first time removing a drawers 10 years after I install. Thank you -rb
There is a mechanism there to release the drawer! There may be a tab to lift up, push in, or push down, pull out, or there may be a small button to push in. It's there somewhere!
@@MikeKlimek Thanks for sharing your video. and responding. I will check , have you seen these single , center , metal rails? two of the three drawers do not fully extend.
Thank you so much for this video I didn't know how to take the draws out with sliders underneath, so glad I found your video I can now move my draws to another room.
TY Mike i had a drawer that wouldn't close but I couldn't get it to come all the way out then I saw your video on the 1st drawer that you got to come out & it worked for me when got it all the way out it was some clothes that stuck that prevented it from closing all the way, now it closes all the way, thanks again, I did subscribe to you channel.
Thank you!!!! This was just what I needed to figure out how to remove my kitchen drawer, tighten the screws for the rails, stabilize the drawer & reinstall.
Had to take out a soft close vanity drawer with the small yellow tabs on the side ( not the long black ones that you pull). When we put the drawer back in it doesn't go in all the way???
I was so hopeful when I found this video. But it turns out I have yet an entirely different kind of drawer slide. I’ve even taken the back off the dresser to see what I can figure out. Wish me luck. UPDATE: You kept showing latches. I figured, there’s gotta be a latch somewhere. It was inside the metal rail on the bottom of the drawer that rests inside the guide rail. Thank you!!!!!!
The lil' clips are missing from our wWayfair (ikea) bathroom vanity; the drawers are like the last example. It appears that because the clips were/are missing that there are screws in the holes in the front instead of the clips... is taking those two screws out how I'll be able to remove the drawers?
Without actually seeing it, it sounds like somewhere down the line, someone replaced the clips with the screws to hold it. Sounds to me like removing the screws will allow you to remove the drawer. Good luck!
Thank you for putting this video out there! Great title on the thumbnail. I chose your video just because of the title and I'm glad I did. It saved me from having to go through several videos to find what I'm looking for.
My dresser was similar to the first drawer you showed except for material of the guides which were metal instead of the plastic. Other than that it worked exactly as shown which was a big help in moving an otherwise heavy dresser, thanks!
Thank you! My dresser drawer has been off for a while and I feel kind of dumb now that it took me half a second to fix it after watching this but whatever it works again and that's all I care about!
I want to say Thank You for your video! New cabinet drawer had broken rear mount brackets and this kept me from having to pay a repair man !! Bless You!!!
Soft close drawers: you saved my day, thanks! The drawer was sitting in the floor for a week after several trials and I decided to lookup RU-vid and boom your video showed up
