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Should My Paper Towel Holder Mount To My Cabinet?

  
  
  

cabinet holderIf you are installing a new paper towel holder the question becomes should you mount it to the underside of your wall cabinet or to the drywall itself. I guess it is a matter of choice as there are good and bad with both.

I’ve never been a fan of mounting a paper towel holder into drywall as the plastic tends to take a beating. You have to use wall anchors, and the way the arms stick out from the wall leads to abuse as people pull on the holder and then rip off a paper towel. It makes sense that if the arms are pointing downward (such as if it were mounted to the underside of a cabinet) the act of pulling the paper towel in line with the arms might not subject it to as much abuse. Also, mounting the holder to the wall makes it difficult for the kids to reach it…maybe that’s why they don’t clean up their messes.

Installing the paper towel holder to the underside of the wall cabinet makes a little more sense to me. You can mount it at the front of the cabinet so that it is more accessible and easier to reach, and as I mentioned before, it should hold up to the abuse a little better. The only thing is that you will need to install the screws into the cabinet, which means you need to make sure the screws don’t penetrate all the way through the cabinet. As cabinets these days are not very thick, this might pose a challenge. If it pulls out, you might go with a short bolt, washer, and nut.

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