How to fix a floating shelf to a stud partition wall

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in this video I'm going to install a shelf which is a floating shelf onto a
stud partition wall this particular shelf is a Lack shelf which is bought
from Ikea this is the fixing bracket and that has to go on the wall with those
holes that they're facing downwards so it actually goes that way on the wall
now in a wall like this you actually have studs which go down, which
are pieces of timber and then the plasterboard is actually fastened to them so it
is possible to actually get a really strong fixing on a wall like this if
you are going to use plasterboard fixings the maximum amount of weight you
can put on this shelf will be five kilograms but if you fix to the studs
that will be increased to fifteen kilograms if you're fixing to the
plasterboard I would recommend that you put about six plasterboard fixings
evenly spaced into the bracket however because we're fixing to the studs
we're just going to put two screws at each end it isn't actually possible to
put any more than that in this bracket because that is the spacing of the studs
in the wall if you can actually see behind the plasterboard you would
actually see the wooden studs which are running it down and they are
approximately every 600 millimetres the first thing we need to do is find out we want
the Shelf and we want it approximately this height so I'm not gonna take some
neodymium magnets like so and we're going to rub these on the wall and every time
we find the screw head which is holding the plasterboard to the stud it will
actually stick because the screws are magnetic this will give us a really good
visual indication of where the studs are so I'm just going to take the
magnets I'm just going to start rubbing that around the wall until it sticks and
you can see its stuck there so there's obviously a screw there
we've got another one just there so that is telling me that there is a stud
directly there and if we go approximately five to six hundred millimeters away
from that one you can see that we found another stud there so we're going to
position the brackets just there to fix the bracket to the wall we're going to
use these wood screws and they are about two and a half inches long so all we need to do
is position the bracket ensuring that these screw holes are facing down which
the Shelf screws to we can then ensure we get that in line with the magnet so
the holes are perfectly lined up and then we could insert a single screw I'm
just going to drive that in using the drill we don't need to go all the way in
just yet I'm now going to get the spirit level and place that on there
I'm just going to get the brackets completely level before inserting a
screw at the other side we can then drive that home
now that's perfectly level we can just do the final tightening using the
screwdriver now we can drive in the other two screws
once we've done that we can then take the shelf ensuring that the screw holes are at
the bottom there and we can push that into position
and then finally, just put the two small screws in the bottom there and that will hold the
shelf in position that's how easy it is to fit a floating shelf to a stud
position wall it is a very easy indeed if for some reason you can't fix to the
studs in your wall I will actually put a link in the description to some popular
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How to fix a floating shelf to a stud partition wall

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