Mdf drawers for wardrobe

[should have gone to IKEA]

We recently had mdf fitted wardrobe made and installed. The drawer boxes (sides, base, back and front) have all been made to the same dimensions from 250mm mdf with added drawer fronts of 180mm mdf. The drawer boxes measures 50cm deep, 78.5 wide by 17cm high. The drawer fronts each measure 84.5cm wide, 21.6 cm high. Each drawer empty weighs 16kg. The soft close runners have a load capacity of 25kg. The wardrobe carcass has been made from 250mm thick mdf, this includes the back panels and shelving. We have problems. Especially with the drawers as the runners have been shattered in part due to the drawers being too wide for the carcass. Can anyone please offer advice on whether this is the norm and if not, what thickness of mdf should have been used. We haven't used any of it yet as we want it fixed and also we have a room highly contaminated with mdf.

 

[Spectric]

The wardrobe carcass has been made from 250mm thick mdf, this includes the back panels and shelving.

That is over 9 inches, did you mean 25mm which is still very thick, 18mm is more common.

 

[should have gone to IKEA]

That is over 9 inches, did you mean 25mm which is still very thick, 18mm is more common.

That is over 9 inches, did you mean 25mm which is still very thick, 18mm is more common.

2.5cm approx 1 inch

 

[should have gone to IKEA]

That is over 9 inches, did you mean 25mm which is still very thick, 18mm is more common.

The thickness is 2.5cm = 1 inch. Sorry. Still using feet and inches.

 

[should have gone to IKEA]

Photo showing measurements

 

[Spectric]

The normal prefered units are millimeters, MDF for example 12, 15, 18, 25 mm .

 

[HOJ]

Dimensionaly the drawer sizes aren't too bad, I've made bigger, but the material sizes are way over the top, not surprising the runner's are struggling and more so if they are too tight.

Are they Blum runners? which have a defined margins in order to work properly, drawer box sides should be a max of 16mm for example:

Any chance of a bigger picture to get an idea of the overall scale?

 

[should have gone to IKEA]

Dimensionaly the drawer sizes aren't too bad, I've made bigger, but the material sizes are way over the top, not surprising the runner's are struggling and more so if they are too tight.

Are they Blum runners? which have a defined margins in order to work properly, drawer box sides should be a max of 16mm for example:

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Any chance of a bigger picture to get an idea of the overall scale?

Thank you for answering. Here are some photos. The drawer sides have gouges were the runners have cut in to them. I have attached a photo of the runners used.

 

[HOJ]

Clearly, not Blum runners, whats is the width of the draw opening in the carcass? in mm, for any chance of the runners working, the draw should be, I'd guess, need to be 12 to 13mm less, on either side, so a 26mm difference between the 2 dimensions,

I will politely ask did you paint them yourself.

 

[should have gone to IKEA]

Clearly, not Blum runners, whats is the width of the draw opening in the carcass? in mm, for any chance of the runners working, the draw should be, I'd guess, need to be 12 to 13mm less, on either side, so a 26mm difference between the 2 dimensions,

I will politely ask did you paint them yourself.

No we didn't paint them. Our very good decorators started to paint them but we told them not to finish due to a problem, not of their doing. These are my the measurements I have taken.

 

[HOJ]

How big is the hole they need to fit in, you have a dimension width of the drawer box @ 785mm, so the hole in the unit needs to be about 811mm wide.