I'd say no - we had that and one glide failed on our dishes drawer (no problems on the pots and pans drawer). We replaced them with the 100-lb version on just that drawer.

I agree- I had a failure with mine. No one realized that the drawer weight counts and ours weighed 30+ lbs. I added heavy duty glides and a drawer insert as a standard drawer holds a ton of dishes. I don't have the pics on my iPad but posted them recently.

I also had to replace my hardware on my 36" drawer to heavy duty. The soft close feature stopped working once the drawer was loaded. For Blum, the heavy duty is #569 HD Blum tandem plus Blumotion glides/slides. It's much easier to order the heavy duty from the start versus replaceing them. I believe HD is recommended for drawers over 30".

Does the failure occur early in the game? or down the road? I am almost done moving back into my kitchen and boy, oh, boy are my drawers loaded up... but everything is working fine. I'm just wondering what I have to watch for if failure would occur.

Couple of weeks for my soft close to stop working - just on my 36" dish drawer.

Mine started making a god-awful noise. It was in August and they had been installed in December or January.

Thanks for all this feedback.

We have the 75lb Blum on our 30" dish drawer. The cabinet maker said he would replace with the heavy duty if we needed it, but he didn't think we would. We shall see!

Weigh the drawer & your dishes. I did that before the drawer failed. I was slightly over 75 lbs.

I weighed mine AFTER the drawer failed, and I was actually slightly under 75 lbs. (but not much - had I realized before how close it was, I would have opted for the heavy duty glides from the outset).

After reading about several drawer failures on GW, we purchased heavy-duty Blum glides for every drawer in our kitchen over 30". It cost a little more but we have a number of large drawers and it gave us peace of mind.

I'm curious to know what the price difference is, if you don't mind sharing. I've been too lazy to go to the website & figure it out, as I know there are multiple pieces.

romy718, the difference was about $20 per pair, as I recall. Those were soft-close, too, btw.

Thanks,

Did you do 30" and wider or only wider than 30"?

I'd be interested to hear the price difference between "standard" and "top notch".

Without knowing that important piece of information, I'm inclined to say that cabinets are one of the biggest expenses in your whole house. Don't skimp.

We're also finalizing cabinets and will have two 36w x 13h lower drawers that I've asked to be reinforced (upgraded glide hardware plus extra support under drawer bottoms), just in case. I've estimated ~ 30 lbs worth of items in the one, and (for now) only 15 lbs in the other -- KD needs to confirm weight of the drawer itself. However, I have a number of assorted heavy-ish appliances that I might end up moving from their current 'homes' (in my sketches); I'd rather build in the flexibility ahead of time to use those bottoms for heavier items, if necessary.

mommytofive, we did not do heavy-duty glides on our 30" drawer or any drawer smaller than that. No failures so far!

mrspete is right: don't skimp! Heavy-duty glides won't do any good if the cabinets/drawers aren't strong enough in the first place.

javiwa, you're doing it right! You'll never regret the time you've spent planning it all out. :)