I am new to any construction yet I am determined. What I want to do is install hungarian shelves
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17 years ago
I am new to any construction yet I am determined. What I want to do is install hungarian shelves
Broad based questions are worthless.
How much weight are the shelves going to hold? Look for fasteners that will accomidate the weight.
Drilling a concrete wall in a 160 year old basement would not be my first choice. Might be time to look for free standing book shelves
Unless the walls are perfectly flat and plumb, you may have problems with any mounting system. Putting them directly on the concrete meat drilling for anchors and it old concrete, that can be a major job.
Look for a better system of shelves or put some sort of framing on the wall and mount to that.
Replace the individual brackets with continuous planks up the wall, and glue both those and the shelves on with a solid bead of glue. If you're storing paint cans or bricks, then cut out some 1/2" plywood, attach the shelves to THAT with screws from the back and glue form the front, and glue the entire assembly to the wall. Use a gap-filing construction adhesive. The downside to all this is that you'll probably need a flamethrower to get the thing down when you change your mind.
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