securing kitchen cabinets to wall

Fred · 2013-09-29T10:29:34+00:00

Hi, I notice in the installation instructions it says to firmly anchor the wall and floor cupboards to the wall so that they don't tip over. The old kitchen units that I have removed were not secured to the wall at all. They were screwed to the adjacent cupboard and to the worktop. Are yours secured to the wall and if so, how? I was wondering whether one or two multimonti/thunderbolt type of screws per cupboard would be a good way of doing it? TIA

Sep 29, 2013 23 Replies

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RJH 12 years ago

I think you might run into difficulties with appliances and the edges of your base units. If you can work round that, I'd go 2".

Cheers, Rob

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fred 12 years ago

Common sense would indicate what would be a sensible load. I'm sure if you asked any manufacturer they would provide you with the information.

Sensible people don't expect to be spoon fed every little bit of common sen se information.

So it now appears that it was the carcase that failed not the wall fixing. They must have been shoddy. A well made carcase fixed to the wall in accord ance to the manufacturers specification will take normal kitchen type loadi ngs. It doesn't require a structure similar to the Forth Road Bridge to do a job that is done by competent people on a daily basis.

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Dave Liquorice 12 years ago

batten

I use something like 3/4 x 1 1/2. Large face against the wall, screws an inch or two in from each end and every 18" or so along the length. Modesty blocks to stop movement of worktop.

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