How to Install Wall Shelves
When the house or apartment you live in is not spacious enough to accommodate various items, installing wall shelves for the storage of the left out items is a superb idea. However, you can also use this idea to for setting up the shelves in offices.
Wall shelves are not only perfect sources of storage but enhance any type of interior as well. You can use them to display your decoration items, books, vases, utensils, paintings and other household equipments etc. The installation procedure of the wall shelves is a simple and inexpensive procedure where you just have to follow the given instructions:
Things you will need to install Wall Shelves:
– Stud-finder
– Lead pencil
– Screw pilot
– Wall drill machine
– Shelf standards
– Measuring level
– Shelf brackets
Instructions
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1
Mark the locations of the wall studs
Select the exact location where you want to install the wall shelves. Now use a stud-finder to locate the studs and mark the location with a lead pencil. Move on and slide in the stud-finder from the opposite direction in order to find the other end of the stud.
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2
Drill pilot holes
Bore a screw pilot hole at the pencil mark, using a wall drill machine.
Note: Make sure not to bore deep hole as a hole with medium depth is enough for this project.
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3
Hang the first shelf standard
Set the shelf standard in the exact place and carefully drive a medium screw hole into its pilot hole.
Hold a measuring level against the edges of the installed shelf standard and fiddle with it until its level reads “plumb vertically.” Gently bore a screw pilot hole all the way through the underside (bottom) screw hole in the shelf standard. Now drive flathead wood screw through the last screw hole and put some screws in the other screw-holes in the shelf standard.
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4
Hang the second standard
At the same level, hook the shelf brackets into the each shelf standard. Grasp the second shelf standard against the wall, opposite to the first one. Place a measuring level across the two brackets and then lower the unfixed shelf standard until it levels with the first shelf standard. Use a lead pencil to mark the top screw hole location and fasten the second shelf standard to the wall by following step 3 and 4.
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Install the wall shelve
Put together the remaining pairs of brackets and place the wall shelves onto the brackets. Now bore a medium-hole right through the frontage of the bracket at the tiny hole and bore about half-way through, without going completely though.
