How to Install Shelf Standards and Brackets Correctly - Quick Tips
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- Опубліковано 23 кві 2020
- Installing metal standards in shelf brackets like these is a great way to get a little extra storage space in your home. However, getting these shelves level can be a little tricky. So here's a quick tip for you. First, mount one standard on the wall making sure that it's plumb with a level. Now you wanna make sure when you drive your screws in to drive them at least an inch and a half into the wall stud. Next install a shelf bracket into your first standard. Then take a second standard and install a shelf bracket into it also making sure that it's in the same corresponding slot as the first bracket already on the wall. Then just scoot your standard over making sure that it's in place, then take a level and lay it across the top of both of the brackets. Now just move this standard up and down until it reads level. Now you're ready to drive in the screws for the second standard. Now that you have both of your standards installed perfectly level and plumb, all you have to do is install your shelf brackets and now your shelf will be perfectly level also.
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Why can't all "how to" videos be this simple and straight to the point?
I’ve been procrastinating about installing this type of shelving because I couldn’t quite figure out how to do it- this is brilliant!!! Thank you!!!
Me too
Sincerely appreciate the solid advice. Thank you!
Very good ....Thank you so much....I hv been searching for this idea for levelling...Thanks again...
1:00 if you can, use Torx screws. They dont get destroyed that easy.
Good tutorial, thank you.
just the information i needed! thank you!!
Great video, thank you!
Perfect.
What type screws are you using.
Did you use wall plugs? 😊
Is it normal for the brackets to move around after you hammer ?
Some slight play side to side is normal. But always make sure the shelf supports have the right "tongue" size and length to fit the slots on the standard. Also look at the bracket from the side and make sure after hammering that it is truly seated all the way down into the standard slot.
This looks too easy, surely you can't just drive the screw straight in to the wall like that? Don't you need to mark all the holes and insert rawl plugs first?.... By which time everything has gone very slightly off-level (if you're me! 😩).... I need to see the whole process, I am capable of botching even the seemingly simplest jobs! ☹️
Use a stud finder, mark the stud locations and screw the standards through the wall board into the stud behind the wall board, usually studs are 16-inches spaced on center. If you do not have enough room to use the studs, yes you will need drywall anchors for the screws, and do not overload your shelves! The anchor package will state the weight limit when screwed only into wallboard. Also in the video she clearly states she is driving the standard screws into the wall stud 1 and 1/2-inches. Please watch again and listen to the instructions.
She seems to be in a garage space or similar, and the stud locations are visible where the stucco or plaster pattern visibly changes slightly. Bad mud job really.
Normally use a stud finder first, where each planned standard will be installed, and mark the locations also using the level but vertically to mark the vertical studs.
You should be wearing protective gears. You look like a reporter. Too beautiful for shelf installer.