How To Mount Shelving On Plaster Walls

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

How to mount shelving on plaster walls.

If your room has this you can simply drive a screw through the wood and use this to hang things. Put the hole over the x that you ve marked on the wall. There are many different kinds of stud. For lighter items simply screwing into the plaster with a 1 1 4 drywall screw is usually enough to get the job done.

With your painter s tape rip off a piece and poke a hole in the middle of it with the pencil. Place a carpenters level alongside the bracket. This method of construction is called lath and plaster the lath is nailed to vertical wooden supports typically 16 inches apart called studs. Measure the spot on the wall where the screw will go and mark an x.

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. Drill a pilot hole. Plaster walls with available studs locate the vertical studs in the wall where the shelving will be located by sliding an electronic stud sensor over that. Use a picture rail if you have one.

When the plaster has cured it is now very well attached to the lath and cannot be easily separated. Shelves that are expected to hold any appreciable amount of weight should. When shelving is mounted on a wall a stud finder is used to locate the studs. Use a stud finder to locate the studs within the walls.