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I once did a major remodel and had a cabinet maker friend install some cabinets with French cleats and he used 3” drywall screws, which are usually case hardened. Everything went fine for about about 10 years. Then they e all sheared off at once and the cabinet landed on the counter, miraculously just landing on some cutting boards with no damage to anything except a couple broken plates.
Haha. dejavú.
I did exactly the Same thing with the same result after a 6 foot run of upper cabinets stood for 13 years. I was eating breakfast. The falling cabinets were cushioned by some flour storage tins on the counter which came out worse for the wear. No plates were lost but the sheared off drywall screws were a bit disconcerting. The replacements were also rated Simpson screws in the rest of the kitchen as well. I managed to rehang them in only a couple hours, and the only other fix needed was a scratch fix pen and some buffing.
My cabinet maker friend, bless him, contracted all his kitchen owners ( about 150 of them), and re-hung all of them that were done with those screws.
It’s actually the second kitchen uppers that fell off a house I owned. In a previous house the old steel cabinets were fastened by somebody into 150 year old brick and the anchors pulled out of the brick after we had lived there a few years (Soft low temperature fired “salmon” brick, as it turned out)
We were on a trip I had college girls looking after the cat and house and they fell off the wall while we were gone and there was apparently some ground tremor. Thankfully, no one was hurt.
Those old metal 1930’s cabinets ( we were in the planning stages of a new kitchen) were replaced by cherry cabinets in the whole kitchen. My wife was happy. My pocket book suffered.