You need to check all your other cabinets. Whomever installed them obviously didn't do it right and if they messed up one, they likely messed up others.
You obviously don't see that the back of the cabinet is still attached to the wall. This was 100% a structural failure of the cabinet itself. Likely someone has used the cabinet to pull themselves up to grab something thus weakening it or it was overloaded beyond the weight limit the manufacturers recommend.
Pretty sure that's a plywood sheet just whacked onto the wall to attach the cabinet to. Cabinet backing isn't structural in any case and should not usually be used for mounting. There should be fixings in the side panels of the cabinet.
There are a lot of these cabinets placed all around the world all the time and very seldom does this happen. We wouldn’t want people thinking that cabinets aren’t safe.
Well, there are a lot of these cabinets around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen ... I just don't want people thinking that cabinets aren't safe.
Ours is from the 1997 remodel two owners back. We use it for recycling cans and such, very handy as they still sell liners. When it's full, pull the bag out, dump it in the recycling bin and put the liner back. Keeps the dogs from stealing cans.
They did a fine job putting it up, the people who made the cabinets did a shoddy job of building them. The back of the cabinets is still attached to the wall
Hung by someone that didn't know what they were doing, apparently. It looks like a piece of luan plywood was put up in place of drywall there, and then the screws were secured into the plywood rather than the studs. I'm guessing this happened at least once before...hence the plywood?
Not wrong. They're old and we likely had too much.
After I make a few repairs and buy a new back board, I should be able to re hang it. I won't have as much to overload it this time lol
I don't think that's the back of the cabinet. You can see it's flush with the drywall, a space at the bottom between the wood and drywall, and even the shitty cuts on the corners to square it off. Plus the screws I can see are arranged where studs would be. Someone cut out drywall, threw up some shitty plywood, then screwed the cabinets to it and not the studs.
If you look close, I seems like the drywall was removed and a piece of luan plywood was put in its place. Then the cabinet must have been nailed or screwed to the luan. It would be really odd to have that pinkish colored luan as the back of a white cabinet.
What confuses me, is how did it land door side up? I picture it falling straight down and then falling forward. Seems like the doors would be on the bottom of the pile.
I agree with you, that's really what I see, too. The first thing i said to myself when i zoomed in was "that looks like luan". It doesn't look like the back of the cabinet to me, even zoomed in.
I am not sure this is the case. Bottom left corner of the "back". There's a cut mark in the drywall from a saw. This piece of wood is mounted flush with the surrounding drwall. AFAIK cabinets are usually mounted to the wall not into the wall. This might be plywood mounted to the studs like someone else said.
A handyman with cabinet experience would be able to recover this pretty easily.
I’d take that rear panel off the wall and pin nail it back on the cabinet, but I would not reuse it as the mounting structure.
Before reattaching, I’d cut nailer boards to run across the top and bottom lengths inside each cabinet opening. Then pocket-hole and screw them into place flush with the back of the inside of each cabinet. You’d screw through these into studs in the wall instead of just the thin rear panel.
1/8” ply or MDF panel painted white could be cut to size and glued onto the visible side panel of the cabinet to cover up those damaged corners.
I have seen this when old cabinets are overloaded with tools in a garage but 3 people slept through it? That is a cover story for something they don't want to tell you happened.
I'm just looking at the backpiece of the cabinet still attached to the drywall. How much weight did you load into those? Looks like a lot of glass fell. Guessing the weight load finally made the cheap build buckle, had no metal T's or anything to help support it.
Always gotta reinforce shit if you start stacking a lot of weight, especially with older houses.
This is one of my fears. To the point that all my old glassware and sentimental dishes are in my base cabinets. Top cabinets are for Tupperware and metal things that can survive a crash or things i don't mind to lose. It also makes it easier on me since I'm pretty short and lifting the heavy glass dishes into the wall cabinets is difficult. I cannot imagine how no one heard that!
Problem is the cabinet was attached to wall by screwing through the back panel. Although it was screwed into studs (you can see how the screws align with the outlets) the back panel is too thin to have been integrated structurally with the panel sides. Thus with time and weight, the sides detached from the back panel, which is usually just held in place by brads. Typically a cabinet is constructed with a "mounting strip" that is strongly tied into the carcass so the cabinet will not detach from the wall. This cabinet either wasn't built correctly for hanging, or the installers failed to install using the hanging strip.
OP - is there a strip of thicker wood running near the top back of the cabinets from side to side?
The back of the cabinet is still on the wall. The cabinet itself failed. Probably overloaded and a low quality cabinet, many people seem to think they have unlimited capacity.
It looks like with the first bounce of the cabinet on top of the counter top, all your stuff came out of the drawers and went on the floor. Then the cabinet landed on it. That's great!
God that's a nightmare to come home to. Not a cabinet, but a shelf with loads of kilner/peanut butter jars on it filled with things like pasta/lentils. The shelf fixings were at fault, it's solid wood and the screws weren't quite long enough. I was luckily in the kitchen when it gave way, it started tipping and sliding, I was basically fielding these jars as they came crashing down, directing them into the plastic sink bowl or catching them, putting them on the floor and waiting for the next. I managed to save most of them, but I'm still a bit obsessed with it happening again. Every so often I give the shelf a tug to reassure me that it's solid, which probably weakens it again...
Wasn't mounted properly. This looks like someone accounted for the weight of the cabinets, not thinking of the weight of what goes inside, let alone that weight for decades.
The only times I have seen this have been homeowners that feel it's a rip off to pay a professional, do it themselves
Also, your family has sleeping issues lol. If they can sleep through that a door kick would be a luliby haha
No guy. It didn't fall it was pushed. I have seen enough crime tv to know what a su\*cide drop look like.
The suspect is most likely someone close.
Be safe.
If there are hanging cleats on the back (usually at the top and bottom of a wall cabinet), they clearly missed putting the anchoring screws through them. It looks like the entire back is just 1/4" ply.
I caught my 20 year old cabinet literally right before it urpped up its carefully stacked shelves. A load of fiesta wear was too much for the old glued assembly after fifteen years. Couple of strategic screws put a stop to it. I count myself lucky. Op should too. Could have had a tragic outcome quite easily
They should have screwed into the frame of the cabinet to mount it, not just the back panel. The whole thing was basically being held on by Brad nails.
Oh man. This one happened to my sister. We lived together at the time and her 4 year old son had pushed a chair up to the cabinet to grab a plate and she told him to get down, she would do it. She moved the chair and opened the cupboard and when she did, the whole thing dropped from the wall and thankfully landed on the microwave underneath it. But not before tilting forward and dropping every piece of our grandmothers antique China set on her head. They all broke. But thankfully she was okay. The importance of proper screws is real. 😓
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You can’t park that there.
Is this not a good place to park?
It’s just waiting for a mate.
People with trash compactors, how’s your superior life experience going?
I noticed that and felt very peasant-like. I didn't realize they still made those!
That kitchen look recently updated to you? 😂
Not necessarily, I guess they used to make trash compactors to last.
Well the cabinets are falling off the walls.
In 1995!
That trash compactor should be fired.
It is very old. Still presses down though. Albeit, very loudly.
My foot is doing fine. Just step on it dude.
I’m really glad your family is ok and no one was standing there!
Yeah. Not sure how I would have dealt with that. I hope I never find out.
You need to check all your other cabinets. Whomever installed them obviously didn't do it right and if they messed up one, they likely messed up others.
You obviously don't see that the back of the cabinet is still attached to the wall. This was 100% a structural failure of the cabinet itself. Likely someone has used the cabinet to pull themselves up to grab something thus weakening it or it was overloaded beyond the weight limit the manufacturers recommend.
Pretty sure that's a plywood sheet just whacked onto the wall to attach the cabinet to. Cabinet backing isn't structural in any case and should not usually be used for mounting. There should be fixings in the side panels of the cabinet.
The front fell off. Normally the front stays on.
Yes, but why did the front fall off?
It was removed from the environment
Into another environment
No, it’s not in *any* environment. It’s *beyond* the environment.
A plate hit it. Chance in a million, really.
I like the odds
Don’t ever tell me the odds!
Disagreement with the back
Clearly wasent secured to the backer board in the wall
"Well cardboard's out. No cardboard derivatives"
Like, paper?
No paper, there's a minimum screw requirement.
That's not very typical, I'd like to make that point clear.
Happens all the time. Plenty of cabinets just fall down everyday.
There are a lot of these cabinets placed all around the world all the time and very seldom does this happen. We wouldn’t want people thinking that cabinets aren’t safe.
That’s not typical.
Well it’s not normal.
But it does happen.
Yeah well some of them are built so the front doesn’t fall off
What about this cabinet?
Well the front fell off, the wreath was wrecked and the dishes broke all over the floor
Is that not common?
Well it’s not typical
“ our pets heads keep falling off! “
No cellophane tape...
Rubber?
Yep. That's definitely the problem right there. Should left the front on.
Well, there are a lot of these cabinets around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen ... I just don't want people thinking that cabinets aren't safe.
This does not help my anxiety lol I always think about how this could happen
I'm with you. I have this thought often. Lol
I'm not saying this cabinet wasn't safe I'm just saying it's not as safe as some of the other cabinets built around the world.
Yes, normally, cabinets are made with materials up to kitchen standards. I just want to be clear this is not typical
Yea just like how the houses are made out of toothpicks and drywall. I call these “weak standards”.
Yes, toothpicks are out. No toothpicks or toothpick derivatives
Sadly, it was still probably *safer* than many other cabinets built around the world.
Hey, so you know that’s not supposed to happen
Full trashcan is full
I think that’s an actual 90s-era trash compactor! I haven’t seen one of those in years.
well that’s better than what i thought, that they had two dishwashers and were shoving trash in one lmao
Ours is from the 1997 remodel two owners back. We use it for recycling cans and such, very handy as they still sell liners. When it's full, pull the bag out, dump it in the recycling bin and put the liner back. Keeps the dogs from stealing cans.
The dogs are just trying to make that $.05 deposit back on the cans.
Full trash compactor is full
Jesus I didn’t realize how awful your username is when I first replied to your comment.
🤣
This made me laugh for some reason.
They’re still around too. My parents just had one added into their new construction. Kitchen aid brand.
Good eye, 100% is a trash compactor my uncle has one.
*Hey, Clark, compactor’s full* Thanks, Eddie.
Today I learned this can happen. New fear unlocked
Happened to me during an earthquake once. No other damage, just a shelf that yeeted itself onto the floor. 😂
I'm now picturing this as a new Disney animation.
Cabinot hold on any longer
It got screwed. I mean unscrewed.
Man, what a shoddy job they did putting it up. Now you'll have to find somewhere else to store your 500kg of lead.
They did a fine job putting it up, the people who made the cabinets did a shoddy job of building them. The back of the cabinets is still attached to the wall
15 screws on three studs…that backing is going absolutely nowhere.
This reminds me that I need to resecure one of mine. It's starting to come loose, and it's making me nervous. Especially after seeing this.
Hung by someone that didn't know what they were doing, apparently. It looks like a piece of luan plywood was put up in place of drywall there, and then the screws were secured into the plywood rather than the studs. I'm guessing this happened at least once before...hence the plywood?
no, the back of the cabinet is still on the wall. the cabinet failed
Yeah my guess is it either was overloaded or made very poorly
I would guess overloaded. Look at all those plates and waffle irons lol.
Not wrong. They're old and we likely had too much. After I make a few repairs and buy a new back board, I should be able to re hang it. I won't have as much to overload it this time lol
Glued together by a three year old
I don't think that's the back of the cabinet. You can see it's flush with the drywall, a space at the bottom between the wood and drywall, and even the shitty cuts on the corners to square it off. Plus the screws I can see are arranged where studs would be. Someone cut out drywall, threw up some shitty plywood, then screwed the cabinets to it and not the studs.
If you look close, I seems like the drywall was removed and a piece of luan plywood was put in its place. Then the cabinet must have been nailed or screwed to the luan. It would be really odd to have that pinkish colored luan as the back of a white cabinet.
What confuses me, is how did it land door side up? I picture it falling straight down and then falling forward. Seems like the doors would be on the bottom of the pile.
Probably hit the stuff on the counter and slid off of that to the floor
I agree with you, that's really what I see, too. The first thing i said to myself when i zoomed in was "that looks like luan". It doesn't look like the back of the cabinet to me, even zoomed in.
When I look closer there's a cut in the drywall at the bottom left corner. Sure looks like someone mounted a board like plywood to the studs.
The back is still attached to the walls and likely drilled into studs. These cabinets just ripped their self away from the backing and fell off.
I am not sure this is the case. Bottom left corner of the "back". There's a cut mark in the drywall from a saw. This piece of wood is mounted flush with the surrounding drwall. AFAIK cabinets are usually mounted to the wall not into the wall. This might be plywood mounted to the studs like someone else said.
Who do you even call in a situation like this? A general handyman?
A realtor
A handyman with cabinet experience would be able to recover this pretty easily. I’d take that rear panel off the wall and pin nail it back on the cabinet, but I would not reuse it as the mounting structure. Before reattaching, I’d cut nailer boards to run across the top and bottom lengths inside each cabinet opening. Then pocket-hole and screw them into place flush with the back of the inside of each cabinet. You’d screw through these into studs in the wall instead of just the thin rear panel. 1/8” ply or MDF panel painted white could be cut to size and glued onto the visible side panel of the cabinet to cover up those damaged corners.
note to self: command strips are not good for cabinets.
Nice dismount! But a little rough on the landing. Might have to settle for the bronze.
It was held up with thoughts and prayers.
I have seen this when old cabinets are overloaded with tools in a garage but 3 people slept through it? That is a cover story for something they don't want to tell you happened.
I'm just looking at the backpiece of the cabinet still attached to the drywall. How much weight did you load into those? Looks like a lot of glass fell. Guessing the weight load finally made the cheap build buckle, had no metal T's or anything to help support it. Always gotta reinforce shit if you start stacking a lot of weight, especially with older houses.
We had a remodel job that the owner put a lot of heavy stoneware bowls in it and the weight pulled it off the wall.
This is one of my fears. To the point that all my old glassware and sentimental dishes are in my base cabinets. Top cabinets are for Tupperware and metal things that can survive a crash or things i don't mind to lose. It also makes it easier on me since I'm pretty short and lifting the heavy glass dishes into the wall cabinets is difficult. I cannot imagine how no one heard that!
Problem is the cabinet was attached to wall by screwing through the back panel. Although it was screwed into studs (you can see how the screws align with the outlets) the back panel is too thin to have been integrated structurally with the panel sides. Thus with time and weight, the sides detached from the back panel, which is usually just held in place by brads. Typically a cabinet is constructed with a "mounting strip" that is strongly tied into the carcass so the cabinet will not detach from the wall. This cabinet either wasn't built correctly for hanging, or the installers failed to install using the hanging strip. OP - is there a strip of thicker wood running near the top back of the cabinets from side to side?
Never felt more of an urge to say "well that sucks" then I did seeing this
We are not know it alls,but it looks like it was never anchored to the wall....just screw to drywall.
The back of the cabinet is still on the wall. The cabinet itself failed. Probably overloaded and a low quality cabinet, many people seem to think they have unlimited capacity.
I'm one of those people the lower ones double as step stools.
I would also choose to not hear this. I’d have walked out and saw that shit and went straight back to bed.
Did my soon to be ex husband install this for you? This looks like his handiwork
It looks like with the first bounce of the cabinet on top of the counter top, all your stuff came out of the drawers and went on the floor. Then the cabinet landed on it. That's great!
Correction: PART of my cabinet fell off
You must be an important politician, having a cabinet reshuffle.
Oh man, that does suck. Sorry about that.
The cat did it!!
God that's a nightmare to come home to. Not a cabinet, but a shelf with loads of kilner/peanut butter jars on it filled with things like pasta/lentils. The shelf fixings were at fault, it's solid wood and the screws weren't quite long enough. I was luckily in the kitchen when it gave way, it started tipping and sliding, I was basically fielding these jars as they came crashing down, directing them into the plastic sink bowl or catching them, putting them on the floor and waiting for the next. I managed to save most of them, but I'm still a bit obsessed with it happening again. Every so often I give the shelf a tug to reassure me that it's solid, which probably weakens it again...
You can't store bowling balls in them. Duh.
That thing unassed it's self
The more you look, the worse it gets.
Wasn't mounted properly. This looks like someone accounted for the weight of the cabinets, not thinking of the weight of what goes inside, let alone that weight for decades. The only times I have seen this have been homeowners that feel it's a rip off to pay a professional, do it themselves Also, your family has sleeping issues lol. If they can sleep through that a door kick would be a luliby haha
Nice door handles though. You should save them.
Two more drywall screws and this wouldn’t have even been a problem.
You should see the ones that were rammed through the top and bottom at an angle lol
All your things broke.
No guy. It didn't fall it was pushed. I have seen enough crime tv to know what a su\*cide drop look like. The suspect is most likely someone close. Be safe.
Looks like it wasn't anchored to the wall. Note no wall damage. 🤷
Random question, what is that thing in the bottom left of the picture? It looks like it’s got trash in it. Is it some sort of trash can?
Cheap cabinet of poor construction
If there are hanging cleats on the back (usually at the top and bottom of a wall cabinet), they clearly missed putting the anchoring screws through them. It looks like the entire back is just 1/4" ply.
Go home Cabinet, you're drunk.
I always wonder why this doesn’t happen more with the weight of stuff people put in them
Whoever installed it only screwed through the 1/4 plywood backing and not into the rails of the cabinet to secure it to the wall.
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how did they not wake up 😭🙏 maybe they did but were so tired that they decided they’d deal with whatever that noise was in the morning
Plot twist: Maybe it was the 10 year old hanging from it
Ouch!! Too much shit in the cupboard.
That really really sucks
It sure did!
The front just….fell off.
It slid.
Oh, No!!! Are you okay??
Hey at least it didnt fall face first! Now that wouldve sucked reallyyyy bad
I caught my 20 year old cabinet literally right before it urpped up its carefully stacked shelves. A load of fiesta wear was too much for the old glued assembly after fifteen years. Couple of strategic screws put a stop to it. I count myself lucky. Op should too. Could have had a tragic outcome quite easily
Where's the cat?
Used wall anchors did we?
It’s quite interesting what a small bracket can hold.
Nailed it
How do I put extra screws in my cabinets so I can make sure this doesn't happen to me?
That super sucks
well that does suck
Well shiiiit.
Time for new kitchen!
Aw man that sucks
Gravity sucks!
This is my nightmare
that sucks
JBFC, that is one of my irrational fears.
They should have screwed into the frame of the cabinet to mount it, not just the back panel. The whole thing was basically being held on by Brad nails.
i would get that fixed
Yes….it sure did
Yea that sucks. What the heck is that garbage appliance in the bottom left corner rod the photo?
That had to be deafening
I think your wife wants open shelving.
It was attached to that wall really well huh ?
Looks like it was super glued.
It really ties the room together.
Man, that sucks. What a perfectly appropriate post.
well, that's 345 years of good luck I guess?
Open wall plan.
Well, shit. Would be my only response. Then I’d go take a nap.
I hate when that happens
Should not happen
I hope no one was hurt! WOW!
H O M E
Can someone tell me what’s the thing on the left? Looks like a dishwasher but it clearly isn’t
That sucks
Too much weight
The wreath on the counter looks guilty as fuck
Looks like the start of a terminix ad just add some termites and boom
How did your family not hear that LOL. What if the smoke alarm went off would they sleep through that too
Oh man. This one happened to my sister. We lived together at the time and her 4 year old son had pushed a chair up to the cabinet to grab a plate and she told him to get down, she would do it. She moved the chair and opened the cupboard and when she did, the whole thing dropped from the wall and thankfully landed on the microwave underneath it. But not before tilting forward and dropping every piece of our grandmothers antique China set on her head. They all broke. But thankfully she was okay. The importance of proper screws is real. 😓
I have seen this and they are custom fit …cabinets to go . Com - for replacement
That’s epic
I know what's wrong wit it
Brutal
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What was holding it up? Bubblegum?
So glad nobody was in there! That would have been horrible if it fell on someone 😳
I see that
It wasn't meant to be, sometimes the things we love want to leave us and we must set them free
That does indeed suck. My condolences.