Started today by preventing alcohol abuse.
So this is the bottom of a cabinet that was here when we moved in.
We have blindly been using it as a liquor cabinet.
Maybe it’s all the pictures I’ve seen on the web of “when shelves fail” and prized collections are lost, but I decided to check it out.
Yikes. 2 screws on either side, sunk about 1/4” in supporting the light plywood shelf.
By my estimation, we were about 1 week away from sadness.
Mind you, this isn’t the good stuff, but still.
I’ll say about half this was on the shelf. Lol.
Only solid wood purchase was on the sides of the cabinet, so L brackets it is.
I think we’re good now.
Next up was the shelf in the Harry Potter closet. It’s the bourbon/HiFi closet under the stairs.
This I had discovered a while back.
Again, existing shelves, just started piling my prized bourbons.
Adding a nice bottle one day, I decided to climb in and inspect it.
It consisted of two 1x10” shelves attached to two 2x6”s, held with 2 nails on each side, not anchored to anything. Oh my.
Oh, and nowhere near level.
I immediately emptied the shelf and added it to the to-do list.
It came up in the rotation today.
I opted for some 1x cleats at the ends, and L brackets into the only stud around to support the middle.
Leveled it a little shimming one side, but it’s now pretty rock solid.
Will still take care in loading it, but pretty confident no sadness will come.