#Lack shelf how to#

A pilot hole is essentially a hole that is much smaller than the screw, and is used for the purpose of guiding the screw. But to make it easier, I will drill a pilot hole. For the screws that will be screwed into a stud, those plastic wall mounts won’t be necessary. (see picture below), and put the mount on the floor.Īs you can see here, I’ve traced an oval marking that matches the placement of the mount’s hole. With the mount lined up, use a pencil to trace the holes onto the wall. Next, take a leveler (shown above), and use it to align the mount straight. It really doesn’t matter if the stud happens to be on the left, right, or center of the mount. Next, bring up the mount, and line up one of the holes with your mark. Once you’ve found a stud, mark it with a pencil at around the height you want the shelf mounted. You’ll have to drill through concrete, but again, that is not a hard task. Please note, that if your home is made out of concrete (like a lot of the houses in Singapore) then you don’t need to use a stud finder, but you most definitely will need to use these wall mounts.

When you put your screw into this wall mount, the wall mount expands, further keeping your shelf in place and secure. They will basically reinforce the hole for your screw so that it doesn’t fall out. What you do with these is drill a pilot hole into the wall, and screw these in. This solution isn’t as strong as actually mounting on a stud, but it’s strong enough. You will need these for the sections of wall that cannot be mounted due to lacking of studs. Of course, since it’s proximity based, accuracy isn’t the highest, so be sure to thump the wall to find where it feels most “solid”. Such amazing technology! It’s based off of proximity sensoring – it sends out waves that bounce back, and when those waves get blocked, it’s found the stud. Using the stud finder, you scan across the wall, and when it finds a stud, it will beep.

#Lack shelf how to#

I’ll talk about how to drill holes without destroying your house. This may sound intimidating, but trust me, it’s not. You see, if you simply mount the shelf into the drywall, it will fall off because drywall is a weak crumbly substance, and it’s thin. The reason why you want to mount into a stud is so that your shelf won’t fall off due to the weight. But that’s okay, you really only need one stud mounted. It seems like that’s not the case in Sweden, because the holes in the Lack mount do not match that. In North American standards, there is one stud every 16″ apart. A stud is basically a structural beam in your wall that keeps your walls standing. It’s absolutely imperative that you mount the shelf to at least one stud. The versatility comes if you want to change the shelf color – you don’t have to remount anything! Lack shelves come in two parts – the metal mounting frame, and the wooden shelf that slides right into the mount. The dangling wire option was something I debated about – have it hanging free, or fish it through the wall? Aesthetically, fishing it through the wall would have been better, but it wasn’t worth the effort, or the damage it would cause in my opinion. You can also mount under-mount lights to them with absolute ease. They come in various colors, so for sure it can make the statement you want. Lack shelves are very nice, very cheap, and very versatile. I also had two Ikea Lack shelves in the den that needed to be removed, and re-mounted in the other room.Today, I’ll be talking about how to mount a Lack shelf, obviously for the purposes of displaying anime figures! (was there any other reason?) Now, both rooms are functional, and a lot of clutter was removed. So I took the hint, and we swapped the two rooms. All of my art books were in the bookshelves in that room, away from the den. Basically, we had a giant L-shaped desk in there, storage units, AND an exercise machine crammed in there, while in the “guest room”, we had a crammed queen sized mattress, surrounded with our storage items with no room to move. Sometime last year, my wife was complaining to me that our “guest room” was in fact, a storage room, and the den was crazy cramped. Radiantdreamer Februin Anime Figures tags: anime, figures, ikea, installation, lack, power tools, shelving, tutorial