Hanging Shelves On Uneven Walls

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Hanging shelves on uneven walls. Then install anchors or drive the screws into the studs and hang the shelf. With over five years of experience professionally mounting and installing objects through his company jason s handyman services jason s work includes working with mounting window ac units designing art gallery walls installing kitchen cabinets and replacing. Gently tap them flush against. Buy a different type of shelf that s less dependent on wall being flat.

Adjust the level until the bubble is centered and mark the keyhole locations on the wall. Use a t square to get your angles right when building the shelf frames. With some setups the shelf rests on top of the brackets. Drag the pencil along the wall.

Remember that the top of the shelf will be above your marks. Set your shelf against the wall where you want to put it holding it as level as you can. Fit a floating shelf by pushing it onto the bracket instead. Hold the level against the wall at the height you want the shelf.

Unless you plan to store very heavy objects on your shelves you will need to install a bracket at both ends and around every two feet along the length of the shelf. Position the shelf on the wall. Help for aligning cabinets on uneven walls. If you build one size of floating shelf for uneven walls you ll have a too tight fit in some spots and a too loose fit in other spots.

Most walls have inconsistencies. For example using an ordinary standard and bracket shelving system would push the shelf itself off the wall by about 1 2. Position the shelf and bracket assembly on the stone wall and push the sleeve anchors through the holes in the shelf brackets and into the holes you bored in the wall. Even the best builders create walls that tilt slightly.

This article was co authored by jason phillip jason phillip is a handyman specializing in mounting and hanging objects onto walls. Hang the shelf on the mounting brackets. Without knowing the layout of your walls it s difficult to suggest anything definite but if you had an alcove you could fix vertical battens up the sides and then hang the shelves between those. Our measurements were different by as much as 3 4 in width between the top shelf and the bottom shelf.

Then check the shelf to make sure it s sturdy and ready to bear the weight of whatever you put on top of it. Or just using a bracket that would allow you to move the shelf away from the wall slightly. Lay a sharpened pencil against the wall perpendicular to the shelf with the point set against the shelf itself.