Installing knobs on too-thick drawers
gale1965
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Babka NorCal 9b
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Full-depth sink? Domsjo too thick for space.
Comments (5)Look at vintage Farmhouse sinks - there are some neat reproductions available too. I would have loved to go that route, but my pocket book couldn't afford it. Almost got one from a friend - it's in their old home on the farm that no one is living in right now, but I could not get her to part with it. So I ended up with the Domsjo sink, and am doing extensive work to the cabinet to make it work for me. We're making our own cabinets so major modification isn't that big of a deal. For some reason, Ikea does not list the sink on their USA website , but they had 11 of them in stock at the store in MN when I called. That was back in November and the sink is still sitting on the dining room floor....See MoreKnobs for big wide drawers + granite knobs
Comments (7)If you have high quality modern glides, it doesn't matter so long as it's balanced. One knob a third of the way from one end of a large drawer will give you trouble. If the drawer is heavy, two knobs make it easier to control. I have some 30" drawers with knobs in the middle that work fine. I put doubles on my wider drawers and the corner drawers, but that's for looks. I did a lot of things with knobs for looks. Hm... I'm not sure that helped. Are your glides by Blum? If so, I think you could do the 36" with a single knob if you prefer. I'd make really sure with another brand. I have a couple of 30" drawers where I have two knobs in the middle instead of one. They're easy to open with one hand because the knobs are only an inch or two off center, but one could use both knobs for more control as well (mine are still empty, but I assume). Re the granite knobs, there are a few ways of making them: some have a shaft screwed into the stone, often with glue (epoxy) as well. Others are just the stone glued onto a shaft. Some are inlaid, and have a metal surround that helps keep the stone in, in addition to the epoxy. Some are set like jewels, with just metal holding the stone and no glue. The good news is that even if over time and with a lot of pulling, gravity, and temperature/humidity change, the epoxy should crack or otherwise give out, it's not that hard to clean off the stone and metal, and stick them back together. Granite knobs are a lot heavier than hollow metal. If you have good quality drawers, drawer faces and glides, it should be no problem. That's why they make granite knobs. With poor quality construction it's possible that the weight of the knobs will assist gravity in encouraging failure. That is a very remote possibility, however, even with entry quality drawers. If they fail, it's much more likely to be for other reasons than the knobs. But yes, you should buy some spares! It's a rule. What if one is just funny looking? What if you drop a cast iron pan against one and kill it? The rule of thumb is to add 10%, though I think five spares is probably enough if you're ordering more than 50. I ended up using a number of my spares (I ordered more than 100, and had one spare of each color, totaling 7). In the end, I have 3 knobs left over, one of which is chipped....See MoreCounters being fabricated - Is this edge too thick?
Comments (20)I live in NorCal as well and 2cm slabs are standard here. However I bought Caesarstone Arctic White for my kitchen and was surprised to find that it was only available in 3 cm slabs. My contractor had to remove the 3/4" plywood top he'd put on my cabinets so the Caesarstone could be installed, otherwise it would have made the counter too high and the stone wouldn't have hidden the edge of the plywood. The downside to the 3cm with no laminated edge is that the top drawers seem to be closer to the slab and the finger pulls that I installed on each drawer had to be inset a little into the top of the drawer so that they wouldn't rub on the stone above. I have 2 cm marble on my island and it seems the drawer pulls aren't as close to the stone. This wouldn't be a problem if you used drawer pulls that were screwed into the face, rather than the top, of the drawers....See Morehardware dilemma, raised panel drawers with too tiny raise!!
Comments (4)You need a very thin wire pull to work with that. Maybe. The panel may be too small to work with any pull. This is why the small drawers in detailed door styles like this often come with profiled slab drawers for the short drawers. You might reorder those as profiled slabs instead....See Moregale1965
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