{"id":4422,"date":"2017-02-04T12:32:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T17:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/customfloat.wpengine.com\/?p=4422"},"modified":"2017-02-04T12:38:16","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T17:38:16","slug":"floating-shelf-installation-on-masonry-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/customfloatingshelves.net\/blog\/floating-shelf-installation-on-masonry-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"floating shelf installation on masonry wall"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u00a0recently installed some floating shelves on a concrete block wall using a system I have been wanting to try\u00a0for some time now\u00a0and found\u00a0it worked very well.<\/p>\n

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In this example the wall is\u00a0a typical exterior wall for homes in Florida. Concrete block faced with rigid foam plus\u00a03\/4″ furring and plaster over gypsum lath. This type of wall\u00a0can be challenging\u00a0to attach floating shelves to not because the wall lacks strength but more so because the rigid foam behind the furring will compress under the load exerted by floating shelves.<\/p>\n

Normally with our system the tension created by compressive force\u00a0of the fasteners holding the bracket to the wall keeps the bracket firmly in place.<\/p>\n

The relatively\u00a0low compressive strength of the foam insulation behind the furring in most cases prohibits adequate compressive force needed to secure our bracket with bolts.<\/p>\n

\"steel<\/a>Instead, we added 4″ long pieces of 1\/2″ steel round rods welded to the back edge of the shelf bracket. The round rods are set in anchoring epoxy directly into the concrete block. We accomplished this by drilling 3\/4″ holes at the corresponding locations on the wall\u00a0to our 1\/2″ round rods. The holes\u00a0pass through the plaster, furring strips, rigid foam, and into the concrete block.\u00a0\u00a0We used 3.5″ epoxy screen sleeves<\/a> inserted into the 3\/4″ holes into the block wall.<\/p>\n

\"epoxy<\/a>The sleeves\u00a0are only 3.5″ and\u00a0the rods are 4″ which I thought was going to be a problem but\u00a0it\u00a0wound up working out fine in this case at least…The holes were a little sloppy in the plaster so the sleeves just recessed into the wall a bit.\u00a0We then filled the screen sleeves with anchoring epoxy<\/a>placed the shelf brackets into the sleeves.<\/p>\n

\"anchoring<\/a> We used some scrap pieces of wood to make legs to prop the brackets in place to sit level so the epoxy would set in that position. When I drilled the holes in the wall, I was thinking the brackets would tilt down because of the size of the holes versus the smaller size of the rods so I drilled with a slight upward angle. I found when we placed the brackets that I had over-compensated or perhaps it wasn’t necessary in the first place because the bracket was tilting up in some places. In those places I simply forced it down using some wood legs wedged between the bracket and the ceiling.<\/p>\n

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Returning to the jobsite the following day I was even\u00a0surprised to find how rigid the brackets felt, quite stout.<\/p>\n

Looking forward to using this system again.<\/p>\n

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We\u00a0recently installed some floating shelves on a concrete block wall using a system I have been wanting to try\u00a0for some time now\u00a0and found\u00a0it worked very well. In this example the wall is\u00a0a typical exterior wall for homes in Florida. Concrete block faced with rigid foam plus\u00a03\/4″ furring and plaster over gypsum lath. This type of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nfloating shelf installation on masonry wall | Custom Floating Shelves<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Customfloatingshelves.com is a fully equipped wood shop specializing in custom cabinetry and woodwork. The entire production process takes place in our woodworking shop, located in beautiful St. Petersburg FL. Owner Billy Dunn is a state-licensed Florida contractor #CRC1328111.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/customfloatingshelves.net\/blog\/floating-shelf-installation-on-masonry-wall\/\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/customfloatingshelves.net\/blog\/floating-shelf-installation-on-masonry-wall\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/customfloatingshelves.net\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"floating shelf installation on masonry wall\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"floating shelf installation on masonry wall | Custom Floating Shelves","description":"Customfloatingshelves.com is a fully equipped wood shop specializing in custom cabinetry and woodwork. The entire production process takes place in our woodworking shop, located in beautiful St. Petersburg FL. Owner Billy Dunn is a state-licensed Florida contractor #CRC1328111.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/customfloatingshelves.net\/blog\/floating-shelf-installation-on-masonry-wall\/","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/customfloatingshelves.net\/blog\/floating-shelf-installation-on-masonry-wall\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/customfloatingshelves.net\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"floating shelf installation on masonry wall"}]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/customfloatingshelves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/customfloatingshelves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/customfloatingshelves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/customfloatingshelves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/customfloatingshelves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/customfloatingshelves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/customfloatingshelves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/customfloatingshelves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/customfloatingshelves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}