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Blum drawer glides just installed--hate them!!
Comments (46)This thread is old, but I found it when googling custom cabinet BLUM drawer. FYI for anyone else wondering about this: All Blum Glides are ORANGE - it is actually the lock that is orange, not the glide itself. You CANNOT just install Blumotion bottom-mount soft-close glides onto any drawer box - the bottom / back of the box must be CUSTOM notched to fit the glide! EVERY SINGLE variety of glide on the market requires DIFFERENT notches to fit the glide! This includes different styles of Blum as well as the cheaper (of which that green glide is one) glides. Custom wood drawer boxes notched for Blum soft-close undermount Blumotion glides will cost AT LEAST $100 a piece - and that is for small, shallow drawers! The glides themselves are not very expensive, but unless you have a well-equipped woodwork shop do not even bother trying to DIY these! If you do decide to get custom Blum drawers, make sure the cabinet maker NORMALLY uses BLUM, and preferably ONLY Blum! I'm just trying to find 12" deep Blum drawers made of solid wood with 1/2" thick bottoms for a shallow dish cabinet, and having trouble finding 3 drawers for less than $400 - and I'll be building the actual cabinet to fit them! I'm almost considering buying Ikea, using the drawer as a template, ripping out the glides and making my own out of wood. For some reason the Ikea entire cabinet is less than just a drawer!...See MoreBlum Tandem Plus vs. Tandembox
Comments (14)Blumotion is the glide system that lets the drawers open and close. The difference is in the drawer box construction. Metabox: uses powder coated metal drawer boxes. This is the cheapest option for Blum. Most custom cabinet companies do not use this. This is similar to Ikea boxes. Tandem: companies typically use hardwood dovetailed boxes and uses the glides by Blum. This is the typical American cabinet system that you see with typical mid to high-end cabinets in America. You only see dovetailed wooden drawers when you open and close the drawers. Tandembox: DO NOT use hardwood dovetailed boxes. The sides of boxes are stainless steel modules from Blum and the cabinet maker only makes the bottom and back that fits the Blum SS hardware sides and bottom. This is similar to what Ikea drawers look like but the components are made of SS instead of powder coated steel. The components are much higher grade than the metaboxes. This is more common with European cabinets. In America, there is typically an upcharge from Tandem to Tandembox. (for some companies, the charge may be the same...) This is not common in America. Tandembox Intivo: the drawer boxes use SS and tempered glass. Tempered glass is expensive. (I have only seen a few houses with this system ever!) I have no idea what the up charge is. I think it is quite a bit higher. If you go to higher end cabinet showrooms that have European style cabinets, they should be able to show you the difference between Tandembox and Tandem. They all have similar opening and closing mechanism; Blumotion. The drawers give you completely different feel when you open and close since what you see is SS versus wood. The difference is really the esthetics, not drawer mechanism....See MoreBlum Metabox vs. wooden drawer
Comments (10)I have them in my kitchen. They are a teeny bit roomier (because the sides are thinner metal instead of thick wood). Probably one of the biggest reasons people like them is they are MUCH cheaper than dovetail drawers. Dovetail drawers are nice and pretty...but honestly do not add to the functionality of the cabinet. Oh another little neat feature of the blum metabox drawers is you can snap the draw fronts off if you need (Don't know why you'd ever need to...I just thought Id mention it)....See MoreBlum Tandembox vs. wood drawers
Comments (8)I might actually be able to help with this one! I have both - at least I think I have the Blum Tandembox. They have so many types with similar names that I'm not totally sure. I have some drawers that are wider than 36" and my cabinet maker insisted that I use the Tandembox for those because they are stronger (he also used the 150 lb slides for these large drawers). Ditto for my pantry roll-outs as they are 42" wide, although they look a little different so might not be tandembox. I didn't care all that much one way or the other, but I did wonder about resale value as others have, too. I know the Tandembox are considered an upgrade, but not to those not in the know. My cabinet maker loves them and has them in his kitchen. He showed me how the drawer fronts are adjustable with these drawers vs. screwed in on the dovetail wood boxes. He did not charge me more for tandembox, but I only have 2 tandembox drawers less than 36" wide where I could have gone wood anyway. I'm not sure if there would have been an upcharge if I had done ALL of my drawers in tandembox. Now that I have used both, there isn't a real driving reason for me personally to use one or the other. I don't think the sides are any thinner, so they aren't any bigger (if they are, it's VERY minimal and my kitchen is small so every inch definitely counts for me!). They are slightly less noisy, but this might depend on how much weight is in the drawer. They don't pull out quite as far, about 1/2 inch less (both of my types are full extension). None of these small differences makes a hill of beans difference to me. There are some differences that do matter to me, however. The tandembox are easier to clean because they have a small curve in the metal side where it meets the bottom - the crumbs don't get stuck in the corner. Also, my tandembox bottoms are melamine which is a little easier to clean than the wood bottoms. The tandembox accessories are very nice (called orga-line, I believe), but also very expensive. I didn't want to spend that kind of money to organize my drawers (the cheapest website I found for these accessories was ahturf.com - the website is hard to navigate and I haven't ordered anything from them, but the prices are good). I never found out if the Ikea organizers would work in the tandembox drawers - do you know? And while the organizers are nice, they only come in limited sizes. I wanted to use the brass channel type organizers from Lee Valley to totally customize my dividers, but they only work in wood drawers. So, the bottom line is I prefer the tandembox drawers for food storage and wood drawers where I wanted to use the Lee Valley custom organizers. For other drawers, I don't have an opinion. Here's some pics, although I don't know how helpful they are. There's a few more in photobucket if you click on one. 42" pantry cabinet to the left of the fridge - pot and pan drawer (I know, pots and pans don't go in the pantry - but in my small kitchen, they are in a nice location close to the range). The 2 smaller 21" drawers above are wood: 42" Pantry roll-outs: The 48" base cabinet to the right of the fridge has tandembox on the bottom drawer and the 2 24" drawers, and wood on the top 3 drawers: And and example of the Lee Valley dividers that wouldn't work in tandembox: Good luck with your decision!...See MoreRelated Professionals
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