Yeah the aim was to have them all together for a single mirror look, and I had just seen comments from people saying if the wall isn't 100% smooth/flat they had distorted look to them, but can try it first at least I guess.
If you need to adjust the angle to compensate for an uneven wall, you can always add a washer or two between the upper clip(s) and the wall. That should let you get 'em both lined up, even if the wall's a bit wonky.
Another mounting question, making a small shelf unit thingy and want to mount it on the wall, but not sure how best to, it's currently backless and the intention was to keep it that way if possible, the wood is 15-20mm thick and will be use to store various dog related items (will have hooks on the bottom for leads, coats etc). So ideally wants to be a small bracket to be hidden but also strong enough to take a little bit of weight. I see there are various corner brackets, or those designed for mirrors which would either be too visible/are too big to fit the side of wood, could just use a couple of these type things I guess which wouldn't be too obvious but wanted to ask if I'm missing something obivous (again) before grabbing some.
A hanging plate like this was my first thought, they'd work well enough but the tricky part is getting the screws into the wall correctly, you have to be pretty precise but it's not to say it can't be done. One way of doing it is to get the screws into the wall first then put the plates onto the shelves to match. The shelves look good so it would be a shame to have some visible fixings ruining the look.
Ah yes that layout could work I'll have a look, have realised/remembered the wall is textured so may not be avoidable to see some kind of mounting as will be unlikely to be 100% flat against the wall. Edit: Cheers I've just taken a couple of photos of it in it's current/finished state. Made from some bed slats and spare copper pipe from our kitchen being redone. Not perfect but happy with it but wasn't sure where to put it so it's just been sat in the garage all summer! My wife suggested we put it in the entraceway and so now keen to find some suitable brackets and some S hooks to get it (finally) used!
I used No More Nails tape to fix a bracketless bookshelf to a wall. £5 odd for a small roll. That stuff is strong. Had a few books on the shelf for ages and its still holding up. Says on the packaging that a roll holds up to 120kg's.
Done these a few times, so best way to do them is to mark off the item on the wall on both inner an outer sides of each horizontal bit. From there the two narrow lines make them into a cross an you have your drilling marks. the main trick is making sure the heads of the screws are in the wall enough to engage the mechanism and not leave a gap. just trial and error but perfectly doable.
Potentially wanting to take it with us when we move in the next year or two so wanting to avoid anything too permanent! Me? No lap joints, the top was just using some cheap saw and some chiselling, now have a tenon(?) saw so hopefully future cuts like that will be a little straighter! The grooves I cut with multiple passes with a circular saw and a straight edge, and then a chisel to neaten them up. Did make me wish I had a router though. I did consider it, but thought it would result in having something on the back of it, at which point I felt I may as well just screw it into the wall for ease.
And yet another mounting question, I bought a bar holder: https://fxrsports.co.uk/product/wall-mounted-barbell-storage-rack-5-bar-holder/ Which came with wall bolts and not the fittings shown, but I don't currently have suitably sized bits to make holes big enough (14mm I think) in the concrete wall, so I wondered if I could just use some plugs (fischer duopower 6x30) and screws (5x50) with washers which I already have (the heads of screws aren't much bigger than the hole in the washer though), or do I bite the bullet and either buy some drill bits and hope my current hammer drill will manage or some more beefy plugs/coach screw type things. Edit: I did wonder if I just try it, since if it doesn't look strong enough etc I would have to redrill the holes bigger anyway?
You should be fine - how much do 5 bars weigh? I got some of those same plugs a few weeks ago to mount a 72" TV, and I think they're rated for something absurd like 50kg+ in concrete blocks.
A standard olympic bar is 20kg so could be 100+kg in total but only intend on using a single olympic bar, then a couple of smaller ones so probably 40-50kg max. Yeah I think 4 of them would be more than fine so will probably give them a go, in theory they're rated for a lot more in concrete actually, 95kg (but difficult to know exact quality of the existing concrete!). Just always been nervous about attaching things to walls for some reason, very little experience and in my head always imagine things coming crashing down in the night haha.
This. I know it's not the case, and I have to talk myself around everytime I drill a hole but in my head a standard photo and frame requires at least 3 6" screws just to be sure.
IMG-20241027-WA0004 by GeorgeStorm posted 28 Oct 2024 at 15:54 Happy enough with that. IMG_20241026_120625055 by GeorgeStorm posted 28 Oct 2024 at 15:55 And my wife is happy with that
I made a shelf! Office Setup by MightyBenihana posted 5 Nov 2024 at 23:24 Just need to put some fun stuff on it and clean up the wires.
