#IKEA LACK SHELF SPACING INSTALL#
We used it dry but if it starts to heat up a lot when you’re drilling, you can spritz the area with water.įinally, use long screws (I think we used 2″) to install the brackets into the studs.
#IKEA LACK SHELF SPACING PRO#
Pro Wet/Dry Diamond Drill Bit from Amazon or Home Depot. Once you have your mark, use a diamond drill bit for drilling through tile. *Note* the stud is to the left of each strip of tape. I held up the shelf bracket and used a dry erase marker to mark the hole that will go over the stud. Next, we drilled through the marble tile to make holes for the screws. Instead of a hole, these were marked with a diamond in the metal so that was super helpful. Install Brackets – Next, I found the center of the wall and measured to find the center hole of the shelf brackets. The top shelf is also 13″ from the ceiling.Ĥ. The rest of my cabinets sit 17″ above the countertop so this made the most sense to me. Decide on height and spacing – spaced my shelves 13″ apart and 17″ above the countertop.Once the wall was tiled, I used painter’s tape to mark my studs vertically. You’ll want to screw your brackets into at least one (if not more!) studs for maximum stability. If your wall is already tiled and it’s not an exterior wall, you can find the studs on the back side of the wall with a stud finder and measure where they are. Find your studs in the wall – Before I tiled the backsplash wall in my kitchen, I marked where the studs are on the ceiling.
Installing Floating Shelves Instructions: haha! If you have an Ikea they’re only $15 each! SCORE! Installing Floating Shelves Materials: It saved me a lot of time too! Sometimes the convenience is worth the extra cost. They’re more expensive but it would have cost me more to drive 2+ hours to Ikea and pay for gas and a babysitter. The shelves I got are from Ikea (LACK) but since I don’t have an Ikea near by, I ordered them on Amazon Prime.
#IKEA LACK SHELF SPACING HOW TO#
How to install floating shelves over tile Installing shelves over tile can be especially tricky but with a few tips and tricks, it’s really not very difficult at all! We've got a couple of the Lacks now set up this way, the mid-length Lacks, two of them have nothing but hard-back books on them, almost to the ends of the shelves, and they've been fine.Today we’re going to show you how to install floating shelves over Tile. They'll still support the shelf, the wall anchors take very little "strain" because all they're doing is keeping the shelf from sliding away from the wall. Now, what I did in my home with the Lack shelves, where I was concerned I'd put too much weight on them, is I still screwed the mounting bracket for the shelf into the wall (using anchors for the drywall,) then put shelf brackets like you're looking at (the "metal corners") underneath the Lack snug up against the bottom, but not actually attached to the shelf. In the US (my locale) such anchors are typically a soft metal that you hammer into your hole then drive the screw into. But second, they're probably also not the correct type of anchor for use in brick / concrete. Sounds like you might be having a couple issues.įirst, as u/No-Photograph3463 stated, your wall anchors (the plastic things) are probably too small for the hole.
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