I have the loading figures stored somewhere but can't find them. We often fitted bookshelves up on office walls and the biggest no no was the d******ds who insisted on trying to store full boxes of colour leaflets or A4 stationery on them despite being advised that the shelving was not built for that as standard.
In cases were this advise was ignored the cabinets didn't fall off the walls as much as slide down pivoting on any remaining brackets.
Well no. The first thing I discovered on kitchen fittings was not to use the supplied fittings on stud walls. Fine on blockwork, dangerous on stud
Since such things are behind the cabinets a lot of them are simply either utilised by hacking out plasterbaoard and putting a line of timber ply or MDF along at cabinet height and using those fittings, our using batten instead of them to support the weight
My current kitchen was built over a quite curved wall. I simply used a bloody great sheet of MDF screwed to the studs and packed out to accommodate the curve to allow me to rapidly run wiring and to provide the ideal surface to mount cabinets from - using the 'supplied fittings'
But where I haven't done that any high cabinets do not use the 'supplied fittings'
I have a huge box of them left over.
Remember that from the 1950s to around the 1980s, studwork was deprecated. 'proper' houses were built of radioactive recycled coal ash.
Only once the eco panic was started did people realise that whacking up crappy timber farames, filling them with insulation and slapping PB over the top was cheap and energy saving
If you want structural integrity, replace the PB with 12mm MDF or ply instead
This is the problem with wall cabinets. Some might fill them with china. Tinned food, etc. So decent ones would be made and fixed for the very highest loading possible.
Basically, you try and make them fool and c**t proof.
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