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Jjay

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Well I need help. For the life of me I cannot do DIY Around the house... I need to fit shelves on to a concrete wall, needs to be stable enough to display my products and hold my stock.

I know mike is good with wood work etc but anyone else about that can lend a hand?
 
Im brilliant at this stuff.. I dont think i could lend a hand haha
But i could tell you exactly what to do, trust me its easy
 
You will need:
Spirit level
Tape
Measure
Pencil
Hammer
SDS drill (hammer drill)
5-7mm masonary drill bit
Plugs to suit
Depending how far off the wall the bracket is, depends the length of the screw, 40-50mm of the screw in the wall is plenty
Drill (for screwing in)

Depending what brackets your using.. I suggest using a simple 'L' bracket that is large enough to come off the wall about 75% at least under the shelf size.. Try to get brackets that screw to the actual shelf, keeps it stable.. And make sre the shelf is about 18-25mm thick if poss

2-3 brackets depending on length and thickness of shelf

Place 1st bracket on wall where you want it, mark where the top screw hole is.. Use the level to get the bracket level to marl the lower screw hole..

Use hammer drill to drill about 50-60mm max into the brick, the brick should be 65mm
If you hit a frog (hole in the brick) its no worry, the screw will still grab

After holes drilled.. Plugs should push in atleast nearly flush, twist a screw into the plug (without the bracket) by hand and tap the end of the screw to push the plug about 5mm past flush.. This stopped the plug pulling out of the wall under heavy weight

Place 1st bracket on wall and screw the screw in, if you overtighten them, you can rapidly loose grip of the wall so aslong as its stiff it should be fine if you have used the correct screw

Once the bracket is on, place one side of the level on it, and with the other braclet in you hand, lower or raise untill level.. Hold it in place and mark the first hole, level the next hole down and repeat the se as the first..

If you then have a 3rd bracket, do that last, by placing the level across the 2, measuring the centre, raising it to the level then repeat..

Anything you dont get? :D
I could put a shelf up in about 10 minutes, piece of cake :D
 
Cheers mike :) will be doing that next week on day off!! :) could be funny ;-) gimme a rotary and some polish il make your car good as new... Gimme a drill and screws... Disaster!
 
Nothing in wall at all :) got a sparky coming over next week and he gonna price up fitting two new leccy points plus few other bits. Then it's down to moving everything about, getting rid of work bench, then will have plenty of room for jag and twingo without having to worry too much! :)
 
if its straight into the brick, youl have no worries of wores or pipes.. If it has been rendered straight onto the brick, you should have no problems also
They tend not to run down any cavities (if there is one) as its against legislations!

The only time you need to thin about those things are if its studded off the wall with plasterboarded, you can tell if there is a hollow for such things behind it by nocking on it in various places, if it feels hollow, be weary or wires, if you have water supply it will probably be on show, if not youll see which side/where about it would be from where it comes out of the walls..

Any other snags Neil!?
 
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