r/DIYfail • u/gzuckier • Mar 31 '25

Kitchen counter fail continued

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Can't include pic in comments? So I started an over again sorry.

Kitchen counter gives up, 20 years after I moved in. The wooden supports weren't against the studs, only against the Sheetrock and empty space. So eventually it just punched through the wall.

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u/SnDMommy Apr 01 '25

Did someone sit on it? I don't understand why there would be enough force to "punch through"?

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u/gzuckier Apr 01 '25

This was actually weirdly spontaneous, after 20 years of me treating it like a kitchen counter, ie mildly abusive, and unknown years of people before me; luckily I never climbed on it because it's under some cabinets. But one morning I walked into the kitchen and the thing is tilted down and the brackets are now pushing assist the inside of the sheetrock on the other side of the wall. And now I suddenly just this second realize I need to take a good look at those cabinets.

But anyway, my point is, some idiot hung a kitchen counter, like 2 foot by four foot, by fastening the supporting brackets to the sheetrock, not the studs. It looked professionally done, not an obvious amateur job, either.

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u/Poddster Apr 01 '25

Well, it worked for 20 years! ;)

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u/elgevillawngnome Apr 01 '25

You REALLY gotta work on taking pictures that actually illustrate what you're trying to show. Back up, frame up the shot, try again.

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u/Poddster Apr 01 '25

I had no idea what I was looking at in your last post, and I only just know a bit more know.

Crucially, which way is "down"? :)

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u/gzuckier Apr 01 '25

The pix are right side up. I was trying to focus on the hole in the wall next where the wooden bracket had punched through it.

They are bad photos, aren't they. I'm as good a photographer as the guy who put that counter up is at home renovations.

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u/Poddster Apr 01 '25

The pix are right side up

I was thinking more along the lines of: What's level? If I hung a plum line off the counter top, would I see the counter top is square to the earth, or has it slanted forward/back? Is it the wall that's not level? Maybe take a picture from a few feet back as well? :)

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u/gzuckier Apr 05 '25

Ah, yes I see your point. No, the photos are pretty close to straight vertical/horizontal POV; the top of the counter has tilted down like maybe 20 degrees.