How To Mount Shelves Onto Plaster Walls

Determine where you want your shelves and how wide they will be.

How to mount shelves onto plaster walls.

Plastic sleeves 8 x 1 in. We walk you. For lighter items simply screwing into the plaster with a 1 1 4 drywall screw is usually enough to get the job done. Molly bolts or toggle bolts.

Use a picture rail if you have one. Screws will also hold a lot better because they will fasten into the lath behind the drywall. Place one of the brackets against the wall at the first shelf location. Hang pictures with plaster wall anchors.

Molly bolts or toggle bolts. Mark a line on your drill bit a 1 4 inch to 1 2 inch longer than the length of the fastener to avoid drilling too deep into your wall. How to hang shelves on plaster walls hunker. If your room has this you can simply drive a screw through the wood and use this to hang things.

Instead use a screw because they won t break the plaster wall. Shelves that are expected to hold any appreciable amount of weight should. If you re not you ll need to use a hollow wall anchor to keep your new shelf in place. Place a carpenters level alongside the bracket.

Some older plaster walls have a thin strip of wood that runs around the perimeter of a room usually between 1 inch 2 5 cm to 1 foot 30 cm below the edge of the ceiling. Screws and screws with masonry anchors for heavy items are your best choice for hanging things on plaster walls without picture rail. Use a stud finder to locate the studs within the walls. Locate the vertical studs in the wall where the shelving will be located by sliding an electronic stud sensor over that space.

Hanging heavy objects on the wall can be tricky and with all the options available out there downright confusing. Hanging heavy mirror on plaster walls. Mark both side. Holding your drill level drill a hole into each spot you marked for mounting your shelves to the depth of the mark on your bit.

In this short tutorial i ll show you how to hang a heavy mirror on plaster walls. Hanging something on a tile wall is easy if you re lucky enough to catch a stud that is. Even more so if you live in an old house with plas. There are many different kinds of stud.