Expert: Eileen Cronk - 11/23/2008

Question
we have a 50-60 year old dresser, not sure of the type of wood. We moved from the West coast to the East coast two years ago and over the last year this dresser's sides have warped towards the drawers making the drawers not glide correctly. Any advise on how to fix this warping to allow us to be able to keep this dresser?

Answer
Hi Mona
Nice to hear from you.
You won't fix the warping Mona but there is a lot of room between the drawer sides and the side of the dresser. There is no way these pieces could actually be touching...tell me it ain't so LOL.
It will be the drawer guides that are being pushed inward by the warped sides. This will make the drawers impossible to open correctly.
Remove a drawer. You will see these wooden guides I refer to on the left and right sides of the bottom of the drawer opening running from front to back.
They can be removed and narrowed down.
But check this out and get back to me.
Kind Regards
Eileen