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25 Sep

can you make deeper shelves?

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The shelves can be made any depth you want. The most important thing you need to figure out is how will you make the thing stick to your wall? Is your wall even strong enough to hold the shelf with the stuff you are going to put on it?  I install quite a few floating shelves. Some installations go smoothly and are easy. Some are difficult. Sometimes it is necessary to open up the wall to add studs or Read More...
01 Sep

floating shelf weight capacity

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So many emails come in asking about the weight capacity of a floating shelf. There is no simple answer, it depends a lot on how well it is attached to the wall.  The shelves we make are very strong, and can hold alot of weight, I recently put about 150lbs on one shelf and it held fine. That doesn’t mean a shelf attached to your wall will hold the same, it might hold twice that much or nothing at all. It Read More...
25 Aug

attaching floating shelves to steel studs

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Subject: Installation with metal studs Message: Hello.  The walls in my apartment building are framed in metal studs.  I have successfully installed floating cabinets and plan to install a couple of your shelves.  Are the screws that come with the shelves suitable for installation in metal studs?  If so, is the recommended pilot hole size still 5/32″? Hi Andrew, The lag screws provided will not work with steel studs. Floating cabinets are different from floating shelves. The force on the fasteners is Read More...
18 Aug

New floating shelf installation guide video

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Two weeks ago I retained the services of 12 year-old Julian Bright to shoot and produce a new video for the shelves. The kid first got involved with filming his brother and a couple friends longboarding starting about 3 years back. He started riding too, and it wasnt long before one of the bigtime board makers noticed his enthusiasm and talent with both riding and filming, and picked him up with a sponsorship.  About a month later, he managed to negotiate a sponsorship for Read More...
16 Aug

floating shelf Q&A

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—–Original Message—– Subject: Securing shelf to wall Message: Hello, I need to order a number of floating shelves, but I have a couple of questions. First, how is the bracket secured? Does it need to be secured to the 2 X 4s in behind sheetrock/drywall? Another question is price. Your shelves are about twice as much as similar ones on xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com   What is the difference? Looking forward to your reply Chris     Hi Chris, Thank you for your inquiry. Our shelves are made to be professionally installed. They must Read More...
11 Aug

floating shelves

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The designers and contractors source for quality floating shelves. Handmade in USA www.customfloatingshelves.com Read More...
05 Aug

corner floating shelves

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From time to time the question comes up: Can we make floating shelves that fit into a corner? We can make any of our wood shelves in this way to simplify connecting together:  2 shelves form an L-shape, 3 shelves to form a U shape..The configuration is up to the designer. steel bracket with wall cleat We prepare shelves to attach to each other by a cleat that attaches to the face edge of the first shelf which then fits into a Read More...
20 Jul

floating shelves for contractors

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It really wasn’t very long ago when a building contractor would employ dozens of craftsmen and they owned tons of machinery that would be transported from one jobsite to the next. Everything was built on-site, all the way from the formwork to the rafters, staircases, door jambs, right down to the kitchen cabinets. It couldn’t have been much more than 30 or 40 years ago, but those days are long gone now.   Contractors today rely on their Ipad and Iphone as their main tools. Read More...
16 Jul

floating shelf installation

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I spoke this morning with a general contractor who plans to install a 12″ x 74″ floating shelf for his client, he says they plan to load the shelf with hardback books all the way across. They plan to use the U-paint MDF, he asked if another type of wood might be stronger and if that would help carry the load. The bamboo is much stronger than any of the other woods, but I think that makes no difference. The MDF Read More...
14 Jul

quality floating shelves

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Subject: Veneer Message: Does your construction use veneers?  I am interested in your shelves and lasting quality is very important to me. Thanks. -Dave Hi Dave,   If quality is important to you, then you are in the right place. Quality is very important to me as well. It is discouraging at times to see so much of the poor quality on the market today. It is everywhere you look, from clothes to coffeemakers and garden hoses. I do not care about how much our Read More...
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