I had these Ikea shelves http://www.ikea.co.uk/webapp/wcs/st...uctId=11102&langId=-20&parentCats=10104*10172
Held up with these brackets:
http://www.ikea.co.uk/webapp/wcs/st...uctId=40764&langId=-20&parentCats=10104*10172
They were located in an alcove in a house that's over a hundred years old. I've always had trouble with the soft crumbly walls, and thought these were up pretty securely, but I clearly overloaded one of them, causing it to fall and take the one underneath with it.
My question is this: the two bottom shelves which fell were part of a set of four in the one alcove, mirrored by four matching shelves in the other alcove in the same room. Ideally, I want to put them back up in the same location, and will naturally go hunting for even longer screws and even more exciting rawlplugs. However if I fill the holes they left behind and re-drill them in pretty much the same place, am I setting myself up for a big fall?
I promise never to overload them again once they're back up.[/b]
Held up with these brackets:
http://www.ikea.co.uk/webapp/wcs/st...uctId=40764&langId=-20&parentCats=10104*10172
They were located in an alcove in a house that's over a hundred years old. I've always had trouble with the soft crumbly walls, and thought these were up pretty securely, but I clearly overloaded one of them, causing it to fall and take the one underneath with it.
My question is this: the two bottom shelves which fell were part of a set of four in the one alcove, mirrored by four matching shelves in the other alcove in the same room. Ideally, I want to put them back up in the same location, and will naturally go hunting for even longer screws and even more exciting rawlplugs. However if I fill the holes they left behind and re-drill them in pretty much the same place, am I setting myself up for a big fall?
I promise never to overload them again once they're back up.[/b]