Shelves!

[andrewducker]

Following one trip to B&Q, 40 rawlplugs and screws, much drilling of holes into the walls and cutting of wood to the right length, Ed has shelves in his room.

I am now rather tired.

But will still be dancing later!

Comments

[pickwick.livejournal.com]

*is jealous of the shelves*

*plots a trip to B&Q*

Nice icon :-)

[andrewducker]

Thank you :->

The trip to B&Q was purely to get plasterboard rawlplugs - the ones I have are for brick, but that bit of wall is onto a space (for no good reason).

And the shelves were fairly easy to do. I seem to be getting the hang of this DIY lark.

[nmg.livejournal.com]

You don't want plasterboard rawlplugs - they're complete shite. Either go for metal redidrives, or use metal hollow wall anchors (expanding bolts). Spring toggles are a waste of time, in my experience.

Fixing spur shelving is one of the easiest and most satisfying DIY projects I know, which is probably why we have so many of them.

Did you buy the precut and finished shelves (contiboard or similar), or own-brand melamine-coated particleboard that you had to cut to length and seal?

[andrewducker]

I bought contiboard - but then cut it to length, as the shelves didn't end up going in the place we thought they were going to.

I'll keep an eye out for metal redidrives in the future - the rawlplugs seem to be holding just fine, but it's good to know.

Argh!

[zornhau.livejournal.com]

Did you fight off that entity? Or do I need to bring DDS roudn with sharps?

Re: Argh!

[andrewducker]

I didn't notice until later that a mini-Death had been hanging around waiting for one of us to fall off the ladder onto a drill :->

And woss DDS?

Dawn Duellists Society

[zornhau.livejournal.com]

"Enough swords to liberate Narnia"

[grapefruitzzz.livejournal.com]

Serious shelves there.

[taromazzy.livejournal.com]

wow, you've moved into a warehouse!

[taromazzy.livejournal.com]

is that not where they keep the ark?

[andrewducker]

In a warehouse?