DH says we will use concrete fasteners. I don't understand. By the time it gets driven into the wall, predrilled or not, whats left for the threads to hold onto so it doesn't come down after I load it down with plates or canned goods? I will ask him to chalk the trusses in the ceiling and fasten those too but it's likely he will do that anyway! I still wonder as these cabinets will be packed, we had 3x more space at our previous home so the weight load was distributed better. Thanks!
Is he talking about concrete screws or the fasteners that are a bolt thar have wings on them that you insert in the hole and then they flip out to catch behin the concrete? Gary
If you're using Tapcon's they should hold fine and will be a whole bunch easier to align than trying to use anchors. It's more of a shear load on the fastener with a cabinet -as you have a long flat surface pressing against the back of the cabinet.
Concrete spikes/nails if that's what he's referring to are spring nails - a bowed nail that when driven into a straight hole forces itself straight while spring pressure keeps it in the hole. I don't think I'd use them in this application, they work great for fastening things to floors though. With tapcons you drill a pilot hole and the screw is made of an anodized metal the screw bites into the concrete, they are very strong anchors - but you will have blue screw heads inside your cabinets
(Tapcons) I just used them to install an exterior door in my walkout basement which is poured concrete. Very easy and works great.
Steel French cleat installed onto walls using Tapcons, matching half of the cleat attached to the cabinet. French cleats are available from HD & Lowes. They distribute lots of weight across the cabinet and close to the wall. Google "French Cleat" and you will understand how the work. Very easy to align, and due to the design you are able to shift the cabinets left/right for perfect alignment before final attachment at the bottom inside corners of each cabinet.
this would work also, if not tapcons will work fine. the cabinet will break long before the tapcon fails.
I used a french cleat in my garage, ran a couple short rows in a corner, then made up all kinds of different hangers, best wall storage unit I ever had. I can add, subtract, move stuff around.....
Tapcons, they will be more than enough to hold it if installed properly and they are the correct length and thickness.
We are not there yet but will be using with tapcons. If there are issues we modify the cabinets to accomidate french cleats. Our other issue is the cabinets are flush to the ceiling which doesnt leave alot of play to get them up and over a cleat. We shall see
Modifying the cabinet to accept a cleat is going to be a LOT of work that you don't need to do. As others have said, with a properly installed tapcon the cabinet will fail long before the fastener.
Armed with tapcons for this weekend! I didn't realize before, its only few cabinets in the concrete wall, the rest will be in stick frame walls.....several additions over 60+ years lol.
Your double oven is NICE! Are you going to anchor the cabinets to the concrete or ancor furring strips to the concrete then cabinets to furring strip?
