Guide 70

Floating shelves with invisible fixings

6 – 7 h · oil 2 nights★★☆materials 171 – 430 €

Four 800 × 220 shelves in 40 mm beech or oak on a hidden steel plate with Ø 12 rods. You work out the load for your own wall: ≈ 26 kg per shelf on concrete, ≈ 8 kg on plasterboard. The 165 mm hole into the centre of the edge is drilled with a jig made from an offcut. Materials come to 43 – 108 € per shelf, plate, anchors and oil included.

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What's in this guide

Identify the wall by the dust from a test hole, avoid cables
Anchors by leverage: 10 kg on a shelf pulls with ≈ 58 kg
A 165 mm hole dead centre into the edge, with an offcut jig
Rod spacing transferred with a template, not a tape
A 0.7° tilt that the load brings back to level
Hard wax oil in two coats and a test load

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Before you start building

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