Hello,
I just built some drawers and I assembled the bottoms without glue. They are floating this was for ease of installation. However I've run into a potential issue down the line. Because the drawers are so wide, when Pulling on the side ( handle) on the half-inch Baltic birch, there is quite a bit of flex. I'm thinking over time this could be an issue especially with the drawer slides. I'm interested to hear and possible solutions.The best I can come up with is to have an additional quarter-inch piece glued to the bottom and a screw in the front and back. This would no longer make the drawers floating. I should mention that the construction is Baltic bird sides as well as the bottom.
Of course I could just screw right through the bottom but I do not know how well that will hold up.
I have not yet installed the drawer fronts. The plan is to make them 5 mm approximately
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