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No, that's not how it works.
Give me a lever long enough and I can move the moon. Not something 10000 times smaller than the moon!
How much weight can a partition wall take?
- Thread starter noobiediyer
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No, that's not how it works.
Give me a lever long enough and I can move the moon. Not something 10000 times smaller than the moon!
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Loads are vertical (due to gravity) at the top and bottom fixings. There is a pivot force but that is minor in comparison.
I see, so why do they have to counterbalance tower cranes?
OK, really it depends where on the shelf or in the cupboard, the load is placed. The further out from the wall the shelf comes, the higher the sheer force, especially if the weight is located close to the front lip of the shelf.
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Oh, no!
We now have to explain how a lever works!
A shelf of 600mm with a tumble drier on top of it will not stay there for long.
Unless 45 degree timber supports are built.
But at that point, why not go from the floor???
Loads are only perfectly vertical if applied vertically.
Sorry, physics is not an opinion (on this planet).
We now have to explain how a lever works!
A shelf of 600mm with a tumble drier on top of it will not stay there for long.
Unless 45 degree timber supports are built.
But at that point, why not go from the floor???
Loads are only perfectly vertical if applied vertically.
Sorry, physics is not an opinion (on this planet).
C
Captain Nemesis
Re pull-out of fixings, if you're building the wall dont leave it hollow - fill the voids with ply or dense chipboard (old kitchen worktops are great) to provide something solid to screw into.
C
Captain Nemesis
A shelf on 610mm Spur brackets will take the load with ease.
Generally it's because the centre tower is not bolted to a big massive house.
Generally it's because the centre tower is not bolted to a big massive house.
Plus the weight is trying to pull it over, don't you think?
Any weight of to one side of the centre of gravity, will be trying to pull whatever it is fixed to, over. A stud wall is fixed at the top which will try to stop it being pulled over but the centre of gravity will be outside the base of the stud wall.
Not on this planet unfortunately.
It might take it there and then, but will inevitably fail and send the tumble drier tumbling down.
This usually happens at night...
C
Captain Nemesis
So you believe that the makers are lying. An interesting accusation, do you have proof?
Spur brackets- mmm yes forgotten about them. Use a full length wall strip with them, top ideally fixed to the head of the wall as well as vertically fixed to a stud, that would work (think Toolstation do a budget version)
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Captain Nemesis
I think that would be fine. There would obviously have to be at least two brackets sharing the load.
They quote a 72Kg SWL for the next size down, and for the 610mm one "Load capacity limited by wall upright capacity."
They quote a 72Kg SWL for the next size down, and for the 610mm one "Load capacity limited by wall upright capacity."
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