How To Mount Floating Shelf On The Wall

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How to mount floating shelf on the wall.

Before you start drilling holes into your wall to avoid potential costly damage. Use the hand drill to drill pilot holes into the wall for the anchors. And then you re ready to fill em up. To gain maximum stability and load capacity this floating shelf should be installed in studs.

Align these holes with holes on backplate tubes and drive small screws through the holes untill shelf is secure to backplate. There are a couple of ways to. Attach shelves these shelves have a slot on the back side that you slide over the installed bracket. The side of shelf with two small holes should be bottom.

Use a stud finder to find the studs in the wall. Slide shelf onto backplate. Measure and mark the spaces on the wall on both ends of where you want the shelf to go. Using a level draw a discreet line in pencil across the wall to ensure that your shelf will sit straight.

Take a look at what s inside my wall. The best way to do this. Once you have your supports on the wall add wood glue all around the top of the support slide your shelf into place and use your pin nailer to add some nails along the back and sides to hold it all steady while the glue dries. Once slid over the bracket insert the included screws in the holes on the bottom of each shelf and wrench to tighten them into place.

Once i measured out the center of where i wanted it to go i leveled out the strip removed the tape from each side to stick it to my wall pushed through the two metal pieces that hold the shelf up lined up the shelf to the brackets and slid it on.