Drawer Repair in Columbus, Ohio

Transit & Flow Group repairs kitchen and bathroom drawers across Columbus and Central Ohio that stick, drop, come off their tracks, or have come apart at the corners. Drawers fail differently than cabinet doors because they depend on a slide or glide mechanism, plus a drawer box that has to stay square under the weight of everything stacked inside it. When either piece wears out, the drawer stops working smoothly even if the cabinet around it is perfectly fine.

Is this the right service for you?

Drawer Repair covers the drawer itself: the slide or glide hardware that lets it move in and out, and the drawer box, the front, sides, back, and bottom that hold your utensils, pots, or linens. If a drawer sticks halfway open, sags and drags on the cabinet frame, falls off its track when pulled too far, or has come apart at a corner joint so the bottom is sagging or has fallen out, this is the right page.

It is a different mechanism entirely from a cabinet door, which hangs on hinges rather than sliding on tracks, so if your issue is a door that will not sit flush or close properly, see Cabinet-Door Adjustment instead. If the drawer problem traces back to the cabinet box itself being out of square, warped, or water-damaged rather than the drawer or its slides, see Cabinet Repair, which covers structural cabinet issues. And if your drawers work fine and you just want new pulls, that is Cabinet Hardware Installation, a cosmetic job rather than a repair.

How pricing works

Drawer repair is priced per drawer, since the scope of work, slide replacement, box repair, or both, varies by drawer rather than by kitchen. What changes the price:

• Slide versus box repair. Replacing worn or broken slides is typically the simpler fix. A drawer box that has come apart at the corners, has a sagging or missing bottom panel, or has a split side takes more time to rebuild.
• Number of drawers needing attention. A single sticking drawer is a short visit; several drawers failing at once, common when an entire kitchen’s original slides have worn out together, is priced per drawer with a written breakdown.
• Slide type. Older metal roller slides are generally simple and inexpensive to replace. Modern soft-close, full-extension, or under-mount slides cost more in parts and can require more precise adjustment to function correctly.
• Drawer box material and construction. Solid wood, dovetail-jointed boxes are usually easier to repair by re-gluing joints; boxes made of thinner material or joined with staples sometimes need a section rebuilt.

As general market context, Angi reports drawer repair typically running $120 to $350 per drawer as part of broader cabinet repair scopes, depending on whether slides, the box, or both need work. That reflects national data, not a Transit & Flow quote, and your price depends on the number of drawers and what we find once we pull them out. $249 minimum visit charge applies, same as every dispatched trip.

Enter your project details and photos in the Estimate Builder for a preliminary online estimate. Final scope and price subject to verification on site.

What’s included

• Inspection of each affected drawer, its slides, and the drawer box to identify the actual cause of the problem
• Replacement of worn, bent, or broken drawer slides with a compatible or upgraded mechanism
• Re-gluing and clamping of loosened corner joints on drawer boxes
• Repair or replacement of a sagging or missing drawer bottom panel
• Adjustment of slides for smooth, even operation and proper alignment with the cabinet frame
• Fasteners, glue, and hardware appropriate to the repair
• A function check on every repaired drawer before we finish

What’s not included

• Cabinet-door hinge adjustment (see Cabinet-Door Adjustment)
• Structural cabinet box repair unrelated to the drawer itself (see Cabinet Repair)
• New knob or pull installation purely for a cosmetic upgrade (see Cabinet Hardware Installation)
• Full drawer or cabinet replacement, quoted as a separate project
• Countertop repair or replacement

Central Ohio cabinet realities

In neighborhoods like Clintonville, German Village, and Bexley, kitchens with original 1950s through 1980s cabinetry often still have their original metal roller slides, sometimes decades past their expected service life. These slides tend to fail gradually: rollers flatten, tracks bend slightly, and the drawer starts to drag or tilt before it stops working entirely. Drawer boxes from this era are frequently solid wood with dovetail joints, which is good news, since those joints re-glue well once the slide problem is also addressed.

Newer builds in Dublin and New Albany typically come with soft-close, full-extension slides built into the cabinetry from the factory. These fail differently than old roller slides: rather than dragging, a soft-close mechanism can lose its damping action and slam shut, bind partway through its travel, or stick when the internal cushioning wears out. Repairing these usually means sourcing a slide that matches the original mounting pattern rather than a universal roller replacement, which is part of why we inspect before quoting.

Our process

1. Describe the symptoms (sticking, sagging, falling off track, or a loose box) with photos through the Estimate Builder for a preliminary online estimate.
2. On-site inspection of each affected drawer, pulling it fully out to check slides, box joints, and the bottom panel.
3. Written per-drawer scope, separating slide replacement from box repair so you see exactly what is being fixed. Final scope and price subject to verification here.
4. Repair work, slides first if that is the root cause, then box repair if joints or the bottom panel need attention.
5. Function check. Every repaired drawer is opened and closed fully to confirm smooth, even operation before we finish.

Services completed by appropriately qualified professionals where required.