Are my wall units going to fall down?

[DavidA1982]

I recently installed my kitchen and I'm worrying a bit about the wall units on one wall.

The wall had been plasterboarded (dot and dab). Rather than trying to attach the the wall units to the plasterboard, I cut out a horizontal channel in the plasterboard and attached a wooden batten to the wall in that channel. The batten is maybe 25mm deep, and is very firmly fixed to the wall with 50mm screws every 300mm or so. I then attached the metal hanging rail to the batten with screws that are just screwed in to the batten i.e. the screws are maybe 25mm and are fixed only to the batten, not the wall.

I've since hung the wall units and filled them and they seem fine, but I can't help but worry that they are ultimately fixed to the wall with 25mm screws. Am I worrying about nothing, or have I done a crap job that needs to be corrected? I hate to think that they could one day fall down and injure someone.

 

[joe-90]

No they'll be fine. You could sit on top of them and they won't fall down.

 

[gregers]

worry not,you have done the job as it should be done.

 

[DavidA1982]

No they'll be fine. You could sit on top of them and they won't fall down.

Thanks. I am genuinely tempted to try that!

I do tend to over-engineer these things. Last time I did a kitchen I actually bolted the wall units to the wall by drilling huge holes and fixing some threaded rod in to them with resin anchor. They were proper solid - each fixing easily supported my body weight. Overkill, but at least I could sleep at night...