My shelf project turned into a lesson in physics last week

I was building a simple floating shelf in my hallway last Tuesday, figured three brackets would be plenty since the manual said two max. The shelf was 4 feet of solid oak, looked nice for about 20 minutes until my cat jumped on it to look out the window. Whole thing came crashing down, took a chunk of drywall with it and scared the cat so bad she hid under the couch for two hours. Turns out I attached the brackets wrong into the drywall anchors instead of hitting the studs behind it. Has anyone else had a quick project completely backfire like that because you skipped reading the fine print?

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the_max28d ago

Used to ignore stud finders but 60 bucks in drywall repair changed my mind.

nancy52428d agoMost Upvoted

Oh man, 60 bucks is actually cheap for drywall repair these days. My buddy paid like 120 to fix a hole he made with a stud finder that was just plain wrong. They're not all created equal, you know, the cheap magnetic ones are basically useless.

hayden70920d ago

$120 for a bad stud finder hole, @nancy524? That's CRAZY, I would have been so pissed. I think I got lucky with mine because it saved me from that exact disaster.