![]() ![]() ![]() Remember that fiberboard part of the cut shelf? That’s where I was aiming. Then, just to secure them, I screwed a couple of drywall screws into the side of my shelf….from inside the cabinet.Ī screw into the cardboard won’t do anything. I slid my shelf over the bracket and checked with the level….Perfection (I never expected anything less) I just had to remember this detail before I got into the full swing of “bracket attaching”. Because I want all my cut shelf edges against the cabinet, I had to install 2 of the brackets (and shelves) upside down. I knew where my studs were (every 16 inches) but used several screws just to be safe. With the level, I positioned the half bracket as close to the wall cabinet as I could, and screwed right into the studs. The shelves are about 2 inches thick, so I used 2 inch painters tape. I marked my spacing on the wall with the painters tape, 12 inches apart. Here’s everything I used to hang my shelves… A drill with a screw bit, a box of drywall screws (long enough to reach the studs), a level, and some painters tape… Here’s what all the cardboard sandwiched between laminate veneer inside an Ikea Lack shelf looks like….īut see that little bit of fiberboard at the top and bottom? Remember that part for later…. It took a little more work to cut the brackets in half with a hand saw, but eventually it happened. ![]() There’s a metal bracket inside every shelf (this holds them to the wall, of course). At 15 bucks each, 2 shelves gave us 4 smaller ones at about 21 1/2 inches, almost too perfect. We bought 43 inch Lack shelves and chop-sawed them in half. How could we fill that awkward space and actually use the shelves to hold all our heavy crap?…I mean, valuable collectables… But the sizes are just so limited AND Ikea neglects to mention is that these shelves only hold about 25 pounds (distributed perfectly evenly) before they sag or fall off the wall completely. We love that the mounting hardware is hidden inside the shelf. Ikea Lack shelves are extremely popular, so modern and sleek. Our previous kitchen cabinets were just shy of fitting completely over our washer/dryer. The space left on the side of the upcycled cabinets was about 21 – 23 inches. Take our recent garage update….We started planking the walls in fencing cedar, but more to come on that later …… We change that crap up, Customize, Make it our own…. We've got a couple of the Lacks now set up this way, the mid-length Lacks, two of them have nothing but hard-back books on them, almost to the ends of the shelves, and they've been fine.Our theory is to make sure our home isn’t exactly like a page from some catalogue. They'll still support the shelf, the wall anchors take very little "strain" because all they're doing is keeping the shelf from sliding away from the wall. Now, what I did in my home with the Lack shelves, where I was concerned I'd put too much weight on them, is I still screwed the mounting bracket for the shelf into the wall (using anchors for the drywall,) then put shelf brackets like you're looking at (the "metal corners") underneath the Lack snug up against the bottom, but not actually attached to the shelf. In the US (my locale) such anchors are typically a soft metal that you hammer into your hole then drive the screw into. But second, they're probably also not the correct type of anchor for use in brick / concrete. Sounds like you might be having a couple issues.įirst, as u/No-Photograph3463 stated, your wall anchors (the plastic things) are probably too small for the hole. ![]()
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