Mdf drawers for wardrobe

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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.
 
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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?
 
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