We recently experienced a failure of the closet clothes rod in our Landmark. I believe we overloaded it. We had it completely full and it included coats, jeans, robes and lighter clothing items (shirts, sweathshirts, sweaters, etc.).
I will attach pictures later showing the failure point but I'll describe it and the fix now.
After a lot of vertical bouncing on our trek to South Carolina, the weight we put on the clothes rod pulled the underside of the overhead storage compartment down.
More specifically, at the mid-point of the rod, there is a bracket. This bracket is secured to the underside of the overhead storage compartment with 2 screws. The screws go through the paneling and into a pine framing member that goes from the front edge of the cabinet to the back (under the paneling).
The screws held but the huge staple that fastened the framing member to the front edge of the compartment failed. It pulled out. This caused the rod to bend/sag at the middle. It also pulled a couple feet of the underside paneling down.
To fix this, I removed the clothes, the rod, the 2 rod end brackets, the middle support bracket, the loose staples from the paneling and the large failed staples from the center framing member.
I pushed the framing member and paneling back into place. Wile holding it all together, using a counter-sink bit, I drilled 2 holes about an inch apart into the face frame of the compartment and into the framing member. As soon as I can get to a hardware store, I plan to use two 2" x #8 deck screws (or similar) to resecure the face frame to the framing member (in place of the large staples).
Using 3/4" brads, I re-fastened the paneling (crown staples would have been better). From Lowes, I purchase a very heavy duty 6 foot long clothes rod and end brackets. I hack-sawed the rod to length, used heavier/longer screws than what came with the brackets and installed the new rod.
The mid-bracket that held the old rod up is too small to use with the new rod. I am also not too hip on reattaching the rod to the upper storage compartment. My plan is to measure the flex of the rod after we reload it (lighter loading though). I may elect to install some sort of helper - vertical support rod from the floor up to the rod.
Pic to come later this week.
Jim
I will attach pictures later showing the failure point but I'll describe it and the fix now.
After a lot of vertical bouncing on our trek to South Carolina, the weight we put on the clothes rod pulled the underside of the overhead storage compartment down.
More specifically, at the mid-point of the rod, there is a bracket. This bracket is secured to the underside of the overhead storage compartment with 2 screws. The screws go through the paneling and into a pine framing member that goes from the front edge of the cabinet to the back (under the paneling).
The screws held but the huge staple that fastened the framing member to the front edge of the compartment failed. It pulled out. This caused the rod to bend/sag at the middle. It also pulled a couple feet of the underside paneling down.
To fix this, I removed the clothes, the rod, the 2 rod end brackets, the middle support bracket, the loose staples from the paneling and the large failed staples from the center framing member.
I pushed the framing member and paneling back into place. Wile holding it all together, using a counter-sink bit, I drilled 2 holes about an inch apart into the face frame of the compartment and into the framing member. As soon as I can get to a hardware store, I plan to use two 2" x #8 deck screws (or similar) to resecure the face frame to the framing member (in place of the large staples).
Using 3/4" brads, I re-fastened the paneling (crown staples would have been better). From Lowes, I purchase a very heavy duty 6 foot long clothes rod and end brackets. I hack-sawed the rod to length, used heavier/longer screws than what came with the brackets and installed the new rod.
The mid-bracket that held the old rod up is too small to use with the new rod. I am also not too hip on reattaching the rod to the upper storage compartment. My plan is to measure the flex of the rod after we reload it (lighter loading though). I may elect to install some sort of helper - vertical support rod from the floor up to the rod.
Pic to come later this week.
Jim
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