Timeline for Screw hole too big now in stud for hanging cabinets up. What can I do?
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| Nov 13, 2021 at 15:38 | comment | added | FreeMan | @getrichordiediying yes, a new hole below so it lines up with the stud. You don't have to drill another hole on the other side unless you want to, an inch or two isn't that big a deal. | |
| Nov 12, 2021 at 23:11 | comment | added | Mazura | @Martha - The Sektion rail system is almost a decade old. Yours were those threaded square nuts? It still kinda sucks but these are better. | |
| Nov 12, 2021 at 20:12 | comment | added | getrichordiediying | Thanks @FreeMan! I actually just used the bottom right hole last night and now realizing it’s a really bad idea! So when you say drill new holes near old one, do you mean below it (so that way it aligns with the stud)? And I would need to do this for both sides (left and right of the cabinet) so that one’s not higher than the other (the whole leverage thing)? | |
| Nov 12, 2021 at 19:21 | history | edited | FreeMan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 12, 2021 at 12:04 | history | edited | FreeMan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 12, 2021 at 11:58 | comment | added | FreeMan | @getrichordiediying please note the update in the answer | |
| Nov 12, 2021 at 6:35 | comment | added | getrichordiediying | This one is the BROR series which is steel backed. I posted a picture in my edited post. I was just going to use the bottom hole now hoping it’s still good enough. | |
| Nov 11, 2021 at 9:40 | comment | added | Chris H | Between mine and @Arne's answer, if they changed globally all at the same time, which they probably didn't, that was between 7 and 10 years ago. | |
| Nov 11, 2021 at 9:38 | comment | added | Chris H | @Martha yours are the new sort (as in the same as the ones I had fitted 7 years ago, but not the same as the ones I put in myself 16 and 11 years ago) | |
| Nov 10, 2021 at 23:23 | comment | added | arne | @FreeMan: I don't know about the current range of cupboards, but my ~10 year old ones actually use the same metal brackets both on the standing and the hanging cupboards. | |
| Nov 10, 2021 at 17:20 | comment | added | Martha | My IKEA kitchen cabinets came with a whole hanging rail system, which looks nothing like the OP's picture. | |
| Nov 10, 2021 at 16:17 | comment | added | FreeMan | Very valid point, @arne. I've got some IKEA floor standing cupboards with cardboard backs, but they've got metal brackets that go into the corners, sides and top for the screws that anchor the tops to the wall (tip protection). I've never looked at their kitchen cabinets in enough detail to know if they're constructed differently. I'd like to think they are, but... who knows. | |
| Nov 10, 2021 at 16:14 | comment | added | arne | As this is an ikea cabinet, it is most likely cardboard-backed. | |
| Nov 10, 2021 at 14:58 | comment | added | Jack | +1 for #4, I would have done that and not even mess with anything else. 1/2" to 3/4" up or down or even setting the screw at a slight angle left or right in the original hole would do the trick | |
| Nov 10, 2021 at 14:13 | comment | added | Aloysius Defenestrate | +1 to ‘watch out for wire and plumbing’. The thing about adding a screw vertically is that you probably aren’t in the hanging rail any more, or are close to the weak edge of that rail. I’d back up that screw with another one in the adjacent stud. | |
| Nov 10, 2021 at 12:54 | history | answered | FreeMan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |