Took me 6 hours to fix a drawer slide that should have been a 20 minute job

I was installing these soft-close undermount slides on a set of kitchen drawers in a house built in 1950s Seattle. The box was out of square by almost 3/16 inch and none of my usual shimming tricks worked. Ended up having to plane down one side of the drawer and rebuild part of the cabinet opening. Anyone else run into old framing that throws everything off way worse than you expect?

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ruby_rivera761mo agoMost Upvoted

Old houses never play fair lol.

rubyschmidt1mo ago

Oh man, tell me about it! Our last house was built in 1923 and the floors sloped so bad you could roll a marble from the kitchen to the living room without even trying. We found a secret stash of old wallpaper in the attic too, like someone just gave up and covered it all up with a new layer every 20 years.

the_anthony20d ago

Nah, sloped floors just ADD character, I'd take that over a boring LEVEL house any day.