Ready America Quake Hold Adjustable Big Screen & Appliance Strap, 6 L, 500 lb, Nylon

Living in an earthquake zone makes you aware of what might happen to tall furniture when the shaking begins. Ive used this and other Quakehold products to keep the disaster to a minimum when it does occur. Since these products come in several colors its fairly easily to hide the installation.

Yes, you could just purchase straps and screw them into the wall, but then youd be missing out on a lot that these particular straps have to offer. First, they are actually safety tested to a particular weight - is it really worth saving a few bucks to take a chance that the straps you buy might shred in a strong quake or if a big kid (or two kids) climb on your piece of furniture? Second, the adhesive/velcro combination makes it so you dont have to ruin your lovely, expensive, heavy furniture in order to secure it. Third, everything is right there in the package, with instructions, ready to go. Convenience and safety in one. Ive used these straps for my armoires and other particularly heavy pieces of furniture and lighter duty straps (KidCo Straps and anti-tip brackets for) for midweight and lighter pieces.

wasnt bad to install, but you definitely need a drill which, in my case, i end up having to buy. Be aware, you may end up having to buy a wall anchor (I did, cause i have drywall) and end up making a pretty big hole on the wall for it to work. Now, how good is it? I dont know. Its securely installed, and obviously something would need to happen for its quality to ever be put to test. Honestly, it gives me a little bit of an extra peace of mind to know its there, but other than that I rather it be that nothing ever happens for me to ever find out if this product is yay or nay, anyway. So, 3 stars cause it seems okay, and wasnt too terrible to install (oh yeah, dust everywhere). 2 taken off cause you have to go and buy extra stuff to get this done and it does make you have to drill a big whole on your wall to do it.

A little patience is needed to install it correctly, but its really pretty easy to install and quite stable. And you have a lot of installation options within this simple package. We use it to protect our child, whos a bit of a climber, from pulling down large furniture. Weve used both the anchor and Velcro options on the furniture side. Both seem very strong and stable. Ive tested them myself, since theyre designed for earthquakes. If it can withstand me, should be effective for kids.

How does one rate an item that is to be used during an emergency? I can only attest to the sense of this sturdy strap, now secured to library sized bookcases. I believe that the wall will have to fall before these things give way. So, unitil/unless theres a major quake, I will give it a 4 star rating ... just in case theres some hedging that need be done.

The new bookcase is tall and narrow, the books are super heavy and fraidy-cat grandma had visions of squished littles. After looking and looking at seriously ugly, poorly engineered anti-tip or wall anchor straps, I found these by accident. So no earthquakes here but a couple of grands amounts to about the same thing. They were less expensive and so much better. I *love* these things. I installed these in about 10 minutes using an electric drill, a magnetic stud finder, and a stepladder, installing the long screws into wall studs. And once installed, they do not show, as seen in the last photo. so pleased with the final result. That bookcase isnt going anywhere. Thank you to whoever invented these. Theyre terrific.

After the devastating SF Bay Area 1989 earthquake, earthquake-preparedness experts started insisting that tall and/or heavy furniture be attached to wall studs, I did that for all of my furniture meeting that criteria. No pre-packaged strap or cable systems for sale at that time, so I figured out how to make them myself using items I bought at the hardware store. Over the years, I acquired a few more pieces of furniture but put off securing them to wall studs, intending to get to it later. You know, the immediacy of the large catastrophic earthquake faded. The subsequent intermittent smaller earthquakes that did no damage in my house were apparently not enough to motivate me. Sad! However, I found this strap kit on Amazon two weeks ago. It looked so simple and easy to install (compared to the systems I created on my own in 1989) that I no longer could procrastinate by using the excuses Id used since then. The strap kits arrived in two days; Yay Amazon Prime! The Oak color kit worked well enough for the oak furniture pieces. The Velcro pieces are substantial. They arent going to be invisible or disappear completely from sight, just because the color is similar to the furniture piece. But, you shouldnt expect that from this design. Convenience and easy installation trumps invisible systems in my world right now. After reading the instructions to ensure that I was installing the straps correctly, it took three minutes, tops, to install. Caveat: three minutes AFTER successfully finding the center of a wall stud. Thats sometimes a challenging task even when using a stud finder! (Had to fill an oops hole drilled that missed the stud.) I dont intend to move these furniture pieces often, if at all, so the max number of unfastening the Velcro strips doesnt apply to me. Installing Quakehold! 4161 Furniture Straps was so easy, Im considering replacing my homemade furniture-retention systems with these.

We recently bought a 6 foot bookcase. We wanted to secure it in case of an earthqueake and to make sure kids wouldnt tip it over accidently. These straps are great. Two bolts into the wall studs and velcro attachment to the top of the bookcase out of sight.

my husband installed them quickly and seems to really hold our bookcase so it doesnt fall if our daughter pulls herself up on it.

Ive tried a couple different products for anchoring furniture to the walls to protect my little munchkin from hurting herself, but these seem to work the best. Theyre a little more expensive than other options, but theyre easy to install because only one end needs to be screwed into the wall. The other side attaches to the furniture via velcro. The velcro strip is stuck to the furniture wherever you want and the strap is secured via the velcro. It is a sturdy hold as the velcro is quite strong and virtually impossible to pull apart when pulled in parallel opposite directions, yet if you want to move the furniture, you can pull the velcro off by pulling it up (or perpendicular) from the velcro.