Succinctly, we had a twelve foot long wall of cheap cabinets mounted improperly, using drywall anchors. We've been in this home just over two years.
We had been using them as pantry space, filled with product such as canned goods, in good faith.
This week they gave it up and all the cabinets and everything stored above fell off the wall.
We lost more than half of our back stash of goods and some appliances like blender, food processors, ice cream maker, crock pot, sausage stuffer, all broken or bent up.
Then the mess of broken and leaking cans and broken jars, busted wood to clean up.
I've been out of sorts for a couple of days and a little whiny.
Well on my way now to getting a new plan in place as of today.
Skipping cabinetry. Going all open shelving, sturdy. Mounted to studs and fire breaks, exclusively.
The punchline of the entire failure:
There were only two screws where they actually hit a stud. Those held fast and the cheap particle board broke away, leaving a bunch of torn out anchors to patch.
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Sounded like a good kitty.
