Recent content by Daven7488

Yeah I went and bought a couple of brackets for each shelf, just to reinforce it. Put my books on it earlier, seems solid :mrgreen: They're not over my bed anyways so I won't get hurt if they come crashing down in the night. Might get scared though.

Is it certain to collapse as it is?

Shelves are 60cm long and 25cm wide. They are two completely seperate shelves. The fixings into the wall are hidden by the shelf itself as it slides onto the steel frame. The steel frame is 30cm long and has 5 pairs of screw holes along it. I just tried posting a link but it didn't work. The...

I just drilled it, plugged it and screwed it. What would be recommended?

Hey, I'm a complete newbie to DIY so I don't know why I didn't come on here earlier! I'm putting up a couple of shelves for books (nothing too heavy, maybe 5-10kg) when I read online somewhere about how you shouldn't put anything against a hollow wall. I don't know much about these things...