RE: [OT] Floating shelves

["White, Peter" <peter.white@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You mean the Ikea type, with the metal bar screwed to the wall and the
shelf
slides onto the 2 prongs?



If so, we've never had a problem...when we were building the house we had
to
live out of a tiny room in my wife's ma & pa's house, so everything was
pretty much attached to the (solid) wall.  Didn't have TiVo on the shelf,
but did have a 23" LCD TV, freeview box, couple of Gale speakers,
assorted
junk and various books/mags.  For a bit more stability Ikea do a nice
shelf-end bracket in a nickel colour, which is sort or a T-shape, with the
'top' of the T being fixed to the wall with 2 screws.  It's still fairly
minimal, but not non-existent like the floating shelves.



If going into a plasterboard wall I'd use Snaptoggles (or similar) to make
sure there's no chance of pulling the plug out the wall through excessive
loading.



Pete



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From: Pedro De Oliveira [mailto:groups@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 11 July 2006 18:34
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] Floating shelves



Hi All,

Has anyone used a "floating shelf" for anything other than
ornaments? What
I am thinking of is putting my tivo and other components on them but wanted
to know if someone has tried and failed or succeeded?

Any help appreciated.

Cheers,
Pedro

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