Whose idea was floating shelves?

[daiking]

I don’t trust floating shelves, not on dot and dab to brick. So I’m going to use brackets too, http://www.screwfix.com/p/hi-load-bracket-147kg-white-200-x-200mm-10-pack/30268 and 14 of these bad boys http://www.screwfix.com/p/rawlplug-rawl-4-all-mixed-wall-plugs-blue-200-pcs/8467g in the plasterboard.

 

I just hope I can get all the holes level and lined up.

[Nickfromwales]

What size dowels / other go into the shelves? 

Id get some stainless threaded bar and drill through the d&d into the solid wall behind leaving the stainless protruding as the new dowels. 

Buy some resin anchor ( mastic gun one ) and fit the shelves on the wet fixings so it stays lined up and plumb / level. Stuff goes off in <5 mins after mixing in the nozzle. It's 2-part resin + hardener your looking for. Remove shelf and refit accordingly and job done. ?

Eating a bacon roll, will look for a link.  

[daiking]

15? 20mm? 

 

Frame about 1m long, 50mm wide, with 3 'dowels'. Suggests 2 fixings above each dowel and a single fixing in the gaps in a zig zag.

[Onoff]

I don't think S'fix do the spare resin nozzles but T'station do.

[Nickfromwales]

This kind of stuff ? Or indeed toolstaion. 

[daiking]

It will make less mess to pull the shelf off the wall than putting M20 resin anchors in.

[Onoff]

Multi tool or make a jig & ROUTE the plasterboard so the shelf sits in the cut slot. Bit of sticky stuff on the back to the wall, job done!

 

I'll get me coat...

[Onoff]

34 minutes ago, daiking said:

It will make less mess to pull the shelf off the wall than putting M20 resin anchors in.

 

Less mess with M16... 

[joe90]

I too just don't like dot and dab anyway but it would be ok if the void under the shelf was fully filled. Re resin studs I have fixed large oak shelves/ mantles with threaded rod and resin and its very solid and looks great without brackets.

[Nickfromwales]

Bracket free for me ?

[ToughButterCup]

4 hours ago, Nickfromwales said:

Eating a bacon roll, will look for a link.  

 

515 calories

[daiking]

Brackets every time. The only good thing about the floaters is their chunkiness.

[Nickfromwales]

1 hour ago, daiking said:

The only good thing about the floaters is their chunkiness.

1) PMSL

2) They're chunky ok, but usually like a cheap internal door. A few strips of pine and all mdf / hardboard covered. Solid wood obviously would be as such. 

[Nickfromwales]

1 hour ago, daiking said:

The only good thing about the floaters is their chunkiness.

1) PMSL

2) They're chunky ok, but usually like a cheap internal door. A few strips of pine and all mdf / hardboard covered. Solid wood obviously would be as such. 

[Onoff]

3 hours ago, Nickfromwales said:

1) PMSL

2) They're chunky ok, but usually like a cheap internal door. A few strips of pine and all mdf / hardboard covered. Solid wood obviously would be as such. 

 

You can get leather effect ones too you know! 

[Declan52]

I put a few of the floating shelves up in my sister's from IKEA and to be honest they seen pretty sturdy and I was impressed. Two long steel rods and plenty of fixing holes.

Then she got different ones from Argos. These basically hang on a screw head on a tin plate similar to what you would  find on a picture frame . They need cleaned twice a day to stop dust building up and pulling them of the wall, pure and utter crap.

[Onoff]

Well fingers crossed the Fischer resin on these M10 stainless studs holds in my bath feet:

 

 

They're only in by 46mm.

[daiking]

1 hour ago, Declan52 said:

I put a few of the floating shelves up in my sister's from IKEA and to be honest they seen pretty sturdy and I was impressed. Two long steel rods and plenty of fixing holes.

Then she got different ones from Argos. These basically hang on a screw head on a tin plate similar to what you would  find on a picture frame . They need cleaned twice a day to stop dust building up and pulling them of the wall, pure and utter crap.

 

They are pretty good for a pile of sawdust and glue, wrapped in fablon. As these are over 6 foot long they also have 4 conventional shelf brackets on each of the shelves so I can sleep easily that whatever family put on them they won't come down before the whole wall does

[daiking]

And they look ugly as sin but this is the "office" so I don't care.

[Nickfromwales]

6 hours ago, recoveringacademic said:

 

515 calories

Nope. 

Extra sausage and omelette. 

Tres bien. ?

[daiking]

1 hour ago, Onoff said:

Well fingers crossed the Fischer resin on these M10 stainless studs holds in my bath feet:

 

 

They're only in by 46mm.

 

I take it back, THAT is ugly as sin.

[Nickfromwales]

Dai, it's going under his bath not on the wall you nutter !

[Onoff]

36 minutes ago, daiking said:

 

I take it back, THAT is ugly as sin.

 

FFS! It's yet to be sanded, have a chamfer routed on the edge and a couple of coats of yacht varnish. Give us a chance!

Edited December 19, 2016 by Onoff

[Nickfromwales]

1 hour ago, Onoff said:

 

FFS! It's yet to be sanded, have a chamfer routed on the edge and a couple of coats of yacht varnish. Give us a chance!

You've got to be shitting me 

Oh, your not 

[TerryE]

24 minutes ago, Nickfromwales said:

You've got to be shitting me 

Oh, your not 

 

@Nickfromwales C'mon he's just another anal member of this forum, just like you and me!!   We all just have our own anal peculiarities -- or at least that's what Jan keep telling me.