Hanging a wall cabinet in the loft

[BenH1]

Hi,

I'm in the process of completely clearing a loft of 5 years of rubbish (some in photo) but wanted somewhere to keep my tools.

Would a shallow wall cabinet be OK to hang on the brick wall pictured?

Was going to place battens on the wall, screw some 18mm plywood to the wall and hang on there.

Thoughts?

 

[sircerebus666]

Nowt wrong with what you propose

That loft looks massive you never considered turning it into a workshop or bedroom?

 

[BenH1]

I have considered workshopping/ studio’ing it, but would need to clad new joists as old ones aren’t strong enough. Been quoted £10-15k for that or £45k for a full conversion.

my concern is the wall may only be half-brick/single skin, so may crack the old mortar.

 

[sircerebus666]

Looking at the brickwork it appears to be a one brick thick wall as you can see the header side of the brick

I would be getting new quotes £45k seems awfully high, what works did they quote for that?

 

[BenH1]

I wasn’t sure as there appears to be little consistency in the actual brickwork. Look near the top, the courses line up quite a few times, and the sizes are pretty irregular.

I’m end of terrace, so hip to gable needed, gas meter needs moving, and I’m in London…

 

[JohnD]

Was going to place battens on the wall, screw some 18mm plywood to the wall and hang on there.

I'd recommend Cabinet Hanging Rail. You can get in in one, two and three metre lengths, or cut it to size. It has numerous screw-holes so you can always find firm bricks to fix it to, and it will spread the load across your wall. You can lift your cabinets on and off if you feel the need to reposition them.

It fits the ordinary adjustable cabinet hangers.

 

[martin hill]

A cheaper and simpler way is to use 3 x 2 timber 2.4m lengths and 12mm MDF cut into 3 stripes. Make uprights at 1200mm which you could fix to wall and run a 4 x 2 across the floor to support the uprights at the front. I have finished this now and using SAMLA boxes from Ikea to hold stuff in. These boxes come in different sizes and stackable too.

https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/cat/samla-series-12553/

 

[BenH1]

Structural engineer gave me the go ahead and installed as photos!