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TIL my garage shelf collapse was caused by a bucket of old paint cans from 2019
Last Saturday I was in my garage looking for my drill (you know, the one that hides behind everything) and I bumped into this rickety shelf I built 3 years ago. Well, the whole thing came crashing down and a bucket of old paint cans from 2019 spilled everywhere. Turns out I had 14 half-empty cans of paint just sitting there, adding like 80 extra pounds to a shelf rated for 50 pounds max. My wife came out and just laughed while I stood there covered in beige latex paint. I spent the whole weekend reorganizing everything and tossing out all those old cans. Has anyone else had a garage shelf fail because you forgot what you stored up there?
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quinnperry2mo ago
Well that makes me feel better about the 12 cans of deck stain currently living on MY questionable shelf.
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haydenhayes2mo ago
That thing about the shelf being rated for 50 pounds max hit close to home. I had a similar setup in my basement where I stacked about 30 old issues of National Geographic from 2005 on a wire rack that was clearly not meant for that kind of weight. One afternoon I walked by and the whole shelf just buckled and those magazines slid everywhere. My wife still brings up the time I had a "magazine avalanche" in the basement. Did you end up counting how many paint cans were actually empty versus just crusted over?
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