Industrial strength L brackets!

[attractivebrunette]

Do they exist?

I'm building a desk made of a solid oak kitchen worktop, about 2 meters in length and the standard 60cm deep.

How can I fit this to a wall? Are there L brackets bit and strong enough to support a solid oak worktop?

I'm trying to make the desk look as 'floating' as possible, so I want true L brackets, not the ones that look like a triangle if that makes any sense.

Any ideas anyone?

 

[merlin50]

Do they exist?


NO

 

[Deleted member 174758]

Floating shelves normally depend on having steel rods embedded into the wall and running well into the core of the shelf. They are also thick enough to allow this. I just can't see how you're going to get flat strips of steel to support something this size and weight without compromising somewhere because a 600mm wide shelf will potentially impose a huge load onto any bars you use to hold it or the masonry that's embedded into (try to think back to when you learned about fulcrums and levers in physics at school). I've fixed steel A-frames into walls to hold stuff like transformers, but an L-bracket will just flex, no matter how big a section metal you use.....

 

[attractivebrunette]

I don't know why you're saying they don't exist.

They're here http://www.hafele.co.uk/hafele35a1/images/external/pages/105-112.pdf

nob.

 

[foxhole]

I don't know why you're saying they don't exist.

They're here http://www.hafele.co.uk/hafele35a1/images/external/pages/105-112.pdf

nob.

Yes we used to have meeting tables suspended off something similar which were also height adjustable.

 

[Deleted member 174758]

Hardly invisible, though, are they? I think you'll also find that seats aren't often 600mm deep

 

[foxhole]

Hardly invisible, though, are they? I think you'll also find that seats aren't often 600mm deep

No mention of being invisable in OP, we used them in the office to support 900m wide desking.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Hardly invisible, though, are they? I think you'll also find that seats aren't often 600mm deep

Sour grapes?

At the OP I'd guess you could get something similar knocked up by a small metal works if you supply them with a rough drawing, Knowing Hafele prices may well be cheaper too. All assuming the wall will be up to it of course.

 

[Deleted member 174758]

Hardly invisible, though, are they? I think you'll also find that seats aren't often 600mm deep

Sour grapes?

Nope. The comment is valid IMHO - seating brackets are pretty obvious, therfore not invisible. At least to my eyes

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

The OP never said invisible she wanted L brackets without the triangular support which for all intensive purposes the ones she linked to are. You'd have to bend over to see the brackets as they hit the wall