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Always anchor heavy, tall or easy to climb furniture to a wall. Use either a stud or a drywall anchor. Even if you rent.
The holes are tiny and easy to spackle fill and could save your child, pet or elderly persons life.
Don't be fucking lazy, anchor that dresser.
What if im trying to murder someone via a rube goldberg style contraption and easy-to-tip-over furniture is my coup de grace? edit: golberg -> goldberg
Drywall isn't load bearing, though. Heavy also implies that it's stable, although that really depends on if it's top-heavy or bottom-heavy.
IOW, if my dresser is going to tip over, drywall anchors are not going to be doing much to stop it. Same for the couch, and the bed goes without saying.
It doesn't need to be load-bearing because the actual forces aren't that high. Fifty pound drywall anchors exist, after about fifty pounds the child will likely be old enough to not climb, and a fifty pound child's angular force pulling out on the wall is going to be less than fifty pounds since most of the weight is going into the floor.
Certainly anchoring to the stud would be better, but drywall anchors are better than nothing and should probably be sufficient in most cases.
Never had a problem in my life and don't plan on having kids so nah.
Gotta be the dumbest take I've read on Lemmy so far.
Why though? An ablebodied, childless adult without pets will very rarely ever have a random child or elderly people in their apartment.
The odds that you'd have someone at risk in your apartment, that you'd leave them unattended, and that they'd knock over an item of furniture is very long odds.
Because accidents happen?
Why do we need any form of safety precaution?
I don't intend to crash my car. I still wear a seat belt.
I don't intent to burn my house down. I still have a fire extinguisher.
I don't intent to chainsaw my leg off. I still wear safety trousers.
I don't intent my furniture to fall on me. I still secure it to the wall.
Lol you got a poltergeist like why is your furniture attacking you.
Unless that person is a little kid who loves to climb.
But the sooner he learns that lesson the better. So as long as it’s not your bowling ball collection on the top shelf, he’ll probably be alright even if the bookcase falls on him.
Say that again to a kid that gets crushed under a heavy piece of furniture
A child getting crushed is not a good way to teach them about the world
I hope you are not a parent and if not I hope you don't have plans of becoming one
The dumbest on lemmy is not mounting every piece of furniture to the wall. Whew that's wild.