Invisibly fixed shelving

[richandjo]

Having bought the perfect shelves, we just have to fit them now.

Ideally, I'd like to get them onto the wall without any bracket showing, as they'll be at eye level and any fixing supporting the shelf will be seen.

I wondered if there was a way to use dowels by, say, drilling holes into the shelf, inserting and gluing the dowels into the shelf and inserting the other end of the dowel into the wall - although how to fix it that end is the problem.

The shelves are shaped in cubes, so whichever method used can be duplicated on the lower part of the cube, as well as the top, so strength shouldn't be an issue (and they're for very light use, anyway).

Any ideas, please?

Thanks!

 

[Jasonb]

Here's the answer I posted on another forum for brick or block walls use metal rod or studding and injection resin that can be got from screwfix etc and drill a suitable hole in from the back of the shelf:

Fitted a couple of floating shelves today, the principal is the same just use a few more fixings:

The shelves were laminated from 12mm oak veneered MDF with a layer of 12mm MR MDF in the ctr, just right for the 12mm bars. The bit of CLS in the background was drilled on the drill press to use as a jig to get the holes square & level. 4No 12mm black mild steel rods(cheaper than studding), diamond core drill for tiles and 31/64th drill gave a better fit than my 12mm lip & spur drill

Studs were placed in the correct position when I built the wall, so just drilled the tile & studs and set the bars with a drop of gripfill. Did manage to hit a drywall screw

Finished shelves, Will post the whole bathroom/ bedroom/dressing room when its all done but if you want a look (big pics not resized yet)

http://photobucket.com/albums/v156/jasonballamy/Clareville rd/

Jason

 

[richandjo]

Thanks for your help with that, Jason.

Did you buy the rods cut to size or by the metre (for example) and cut them yourself?

If so, were they from Screwfix?

Cheers.

 

[masona]

Nice job there Jason, I'm thinking would the threaded stud might be more advantage with the gripfill bonded to the thread, just a thought.

 

[PartyCan]

Yep nice pic's just had a look and nice job m8.

 

[Jasonb]

Sorry I've not been back to answer.

I did cut the bar to length but you can buy short lengths of studding (threaded rod) from Screwfix

Masona, the studding would give a better grip to gripfill and definatly resin, as I was going into studwork the bars were vertually a friction fit so only used a dab of gripfill to be sure. When fixing to brick/block I would drill say a 14mm hole for 12mm studding so the bond needs to be good.

The harder part is if you have a solid shelf and need to drill the stud holes from the back, again a slightly loose hole will take up any errors in alignment.

Jason