An idiot level expensive mistake.

[NorthernRaider]

An idiot level expensive mistake.
Most of you know I recently ripped the heart out of Castle NR to give me a bigger kitchen with much more food storage, and thereby laid the seeds of my own downfall, at 03.40 AM last night as the household slept................BANG, Crash, multiple bangs, more crashes, lots more crashes, sounds of glass breaking, wood snapping followed by a god almighty MASSIVE bang. Leapt out of bed wife and son OK but as terrified as me.
Grabs flashlight and heads downstairs. Hall ? OK, Living room? OK, Dining room? OK......... kitchen...............Oh dear god it looks like an 82mm mortar had gone off. Tins, cans, tubs, packets, glass jars, plastic bottles, crockery you name it all over tthe floor intermingled with wrecked brand new kitchen wall units.
The line of 4 x 1000 mm wall units had ripped the rawl plugs and screws out of the hollow plasterboard wall and crashed onto the worktops before toppling over and smashing all over the laminate floor. The units were secured to the wall EXACTLY as per instructions with three expanding cavity wall plugs and three 1 3/4 number 8 screws in each of the two brackets in each wall unit.
The screws were still securely affixed in the rawl plugs but the plugs had ripped out of the plaster board. As the first bracket had failed and pulled out of the wall it pulled the next bracket with it, then the next and the next like a zip unfastening.
So four MORE new 1000 mm wall units later..................................
The only thing we can think of is being preppers we filled our cupboards to the max when we stock up and the cupboard that failed first was chock full of cans, We reckon that basically the brackets, plugs and screw could not take a full load of canned goods and the extra weight caused the plugs to rip out of the wall taking chunks of plasterboard with them . ( Not a problem in older houses with proper solid brick internal walls).
So now the replacement wall units are secured again with the supplied brackets and three plugs and screws in each one, PLUS 3 x 100mm L brackets on each unit at the top holding the unit to the wall, AND the bottom of the units now resting on a 4 meter long 45 x 60 mm length of plained timber screwed and pluged every 15 inches AND glued with no more nails for the battom of the unit to spread the load along the whole wall.
So folks if you are adding extra wall storage in your homes for extra supplies and you have hollow walls then please take a belt and braces approach to mounting the units as factory standard fittings REALLY are not enough to do the job properly.