Install sliding cabinet doors (no hardware needed)

[@jmeils22]

I am so grateful for this high quality presentation. Great information and I didn’t miss watching someone drilling a bunch of holes and making a bunch of repeated cuts. Just good advice, carefully prepared and delivered. Great job! If you have more like this, I will have lost another day to KZbin.

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

Thanks for your kind feedback!

[@pamelagreene9417]

Very good instruction video. Your delivery of the information is perfect. Thanks so much!

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

Thanks. Glad tot hear it!

[@LolaHouston]

Thanks. Great basic common sense material that helps those of us just starting a simple project like this for the first time..

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

I’m glad that you found my tips useful. Good luck with your projects.

[@T.S.R-wood-KH]

Hello, I am from Cambodia, I really love your work and your video.❤

[@YetiFix]

Great focus point for any related DIY-projects 👍👍👍

[@lisafletcher6136]

Thank you for this video. Some really good tips here and all very clearly explained.

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

Thanks. I’m glad to hear it.

[@marksogge5745]

Great video... thanks! Useful information, very clearly presented. Much appreciated.

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

Thanks for the feedback!

[@wwh2694]

Great video. I learned a lot. Soon will be building one of these cabinets

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

Thanks. Glad to hear it.

[@PartContinuum]

I only wanted to know how to install the doors and you made me learn 3 or 4 more tips!! lol Thanks

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

Great! Enjoy

[@sapelesteve]

Thanks for those excellent tips Andreas! 👍👍😉😉

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

You’re welcome, Steve!

[@StevenSuing1]

Fantastic video!!! So incredibly helpful.

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

Thank you!

[@penskyfile5290]

Thanks very much. Really good info that will help with my next project.

Super tips! Thanks for this. Perfect for my project right now! :)

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

Glad to hear it. Good luck with your project!

[@pierrebodart4577]

Very interesting . Great Job !!! thks for sharing your tips and tricks.. :-) Cheers from Belgium 🍻🍻

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

Thanks Pierre!

[@tribsat100]

Some interesting tips there Andreas. In the furniture trade even the big manufacturers use a little paste wax or candle wax on friction surfaces ie Drawer sides or sliding door runners it makes a huge difference and impedes premature wear on those surfaces. Keep safe and warm over there we are expecting another bitter cold week.Kind Regards Stuart Bell from UK👍

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

Thanks for that tip Stuart. Over here, the cold is only in the north. We’re here in the south of Germany which is not supposed to become so cold this week.

[@tribsat100]

Thats good news on the weather front. Keep up the good work Regards S.

[@burningbernie]

Very well explained. Thanks.

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

Thank you - glad to hear it.

[@nahidparveen5299]

excellent explanation

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

Thank you.

[@terrymartin2180]

I kind of knew they were too big. Thanks for feed back

[@alexlaessle1]

Thanks! This video is exactly what I was looking for.

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

Glad to hear it!

[@alexandrakoutsis7146]

Amazing explanation! Thank you 😊

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

Thanks. Glad to hear it

[@Thyme2sea]

Thank you Andreas!

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

You’re welcome

[@ChristopherClaudioSkierka]

Excellent!!!, ps thank you for all your other replies to my questions relating to other videos :). I like your drawing at 2.35 , thanks for that

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

Thanks Christopher!

[@Robert8455]

Good tips. Something else that works for helping sliding is soap and wax. The soap would be a bar soap, the (old fashioned kind), just rub real good on the bottom of the door. Use a little wax (bee's wax or even candle wax) in the bottom groove. This will also help keep the dust out.

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

Thanks for the tip.

[@wadehadaway1380]

Amazing video my friend! Thank you!

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

Thank you Wade!

[@aytacuzun7019]

Hi Andreas, Could you please make a very simple sliding barn door in one of the videos as well? Thank you

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

Sorry, I don’t have any use for a barn door.

[@mandjolovitula9752]

Very useful

[@PJRayment]

You can use handles that stick out, if you just make sure that your grooves stop a bit short so that you can't open the doors to the point that the handles hit.

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

Thanks for this great tip!

[@sweetsingin]

Excellent. Thank you!

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

Thank you, too.

[@MorganDevineify]

Hello. I am putting together a bookshelf that has a sliding door with a door track. The manual isn't very good and there are no videos of this model online. Does the door track mechanism (the plastic strip with the indention for the door) need to be flush with the bottom of the bookshelf? They aren't fitting very well so I am wondering if I need to hammer in or what I need to do.

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

I have no idea. That depends entirely on the shape of the tracks and the overall construction. This is impossible to answer without any pictures.

[@AppelmoesArtandPhotography]

Thanks!

[@vickdecena7510]

i've learn a lot from u sir thanks...

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

Glad to hear it. Thanks.

[@nestordimailig2303]

Thank you very much, Sir. 🙏🏼

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

You’re welcome.

[@i679n5]

Very informative, thank you

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

Thanks. I’m glad to hear it.

[@tbhdqx]

very useful suggestions

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

Thank you!. Glad to hear it

[@mitziseyfferdt3866]

Hello Andreas, you have been very quiet the last 5 months, I hope everything is fine, regards Mitzi - South Africa

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

Hi Mitzi, thanks for caring - all is well. These last months have, again, been very busy at school - Covid created lots of dynamics which needed to be taken care of. Now the summer holidays have started and I can take a breath and get some shop time in. Hope you’re well in South Africa? The news from there has been worrying lately …

[@mitziseyfferdt3866]

@@holzhandwerk_ak No, it's not as bad as it seems on the news, we are all fine, looking forward to your next video 😃

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

Good to hear. Stay safe.

[@AmosAmerica]

In your intro you mention some hardware that can be used. What is the name of that? I have some pre-existing cabinets without door, but want to add sliding doors. Any suggestions on this?

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

I don’t know exactly. I’d do a search for sliding door hardware.

[@MrElgrandebarraco]

Sehr interessantes Video! Danke dafür. Habe Anfang des Jahres vor der selben Herausforderung gestanden, um kleine Schiebetüren in meinen Schreibtisch einbauen zu können. Hast du das alles ausprobiert oder gibt es eine Quelle? Bisher bist du der einzige der das so genau erklärt. VG Flo

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

Eine konkrete Quelle habe ich nicht, andere Ansätze geschaut, überlegt, vor einigen Jahren schon mal einen Schiebetürenschrank gebaut und nun die Erfahrung umgesetzt.

[@wadehadaway7780]

Love it again!

[@KJR1905]

Girlfriend bought a second hand cabinet. The doors are too small/the grooves are too deep and they just fall out of the grooves. Any suggestions on how to rectify this?

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

Place strips of paper or cardboard in the bottom groove; stack them until the door doesn’t fall out anymore. Then you can measure how high the door needs to be lifted to not fall out. If it’s only a millimeter or two, use gliding tape and stick it in the bottom groove, if necessary, stak two or three layers to make that groove shallower and keep the door from falling out. If it’s more than just a few millimeters, use a thin strip of wood and place it in the bottom groove

[@KJR1905]

@@holzhandwerk_ak Sorted. Thankyou very much for your help👍

[@sohebr6540]

Great tips

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

THanks.

[@MixedEmotions_00]

Hi Andreas, I just became a subscriber and have watched your videos on sliding doors. I don’t believe I heard specific mention of it and my apologies if it was answered elsewhere in comments, but my question is regarding the placement of the grooves. More specifically, what is the distance from the cabinet frame to that first inner groove? In other words, how far out is the inner edge of the first groove (from the cabinet’s side panels) so that the door will not rub the sides, nor leave a space that is too large? Thanks in advance!

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

Welcome to the channel! If I understand you correctly, your question is answered at 6:08 in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3-afYSvoM13oKM

[@lpdsquads1]

This is great!

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

Thanks.

[@peterg902]

Hi, could you tell me the model of drill press (drill holder) you use in the video please. I need a pretty accurate one and see this kind in other videos and have not found its make.

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

I have a detailed video about it here: kit.co/holzhandwerk_ak/my-drill-press-drill-mount

[@eviebee4]

Thanks so much!

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

You’re welcome. Glad I could help.

[@ashsqx3246]

Please make a video showing sliding doors with simple hardware such as E channels etc

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

At the moment I don’t have the need for another sliding-door cabinet, sorry.

[@ChristopherClaudioSkierka]

Hi, do you know of any companies that sell those inserts for the running track? I tried looking but could not find any, perhaps I am not typing the correct words :)

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

I searched for “gliding tape” on amazon, sometimes it seems to be called “teflon tape”, one manufacturer is 3M. Hope that helps.

[@terrymartin2180]

How big can doors be to use this method. I have two doors 3 ft wide and almost 5 ft tall. Anyone done them this big

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

I would say that yours are too heavy for this method: I'd get some sliding door hardware with ball-bearing casters

[@DebHeadworth]

Anyone have a link for the gliding tape?

[@nedf8668]

Nylo-tape from Rockler

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

For example here: amzn.to/3APTD8Z

[@pampe5275]

good

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

Thanks.

[@barry-cq4xg]

Great tips. I was rather looking forward to seeing your Mongolian pets in their home (at the end of the video). Maybe at some time in the future you will make a video about these creatures?

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

They’ve turned out to be quite elusive, honestly. They’re supposed to be active both during the day and the night but ours seem to be night owls and are hardly ever seen during the day. So filming them is hard 😉

[@barry-cq4xg]

@@holzhandwerk_ak Thanks for your replie(s). I look forward to your new videos.

[@TemaxSH]

ncie🤠🤠🤠

[@holzhandwerk_ak]

Thanks.

[@alcaponehome6744]

Great tips