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16 Inch Shelf Bracket Home Depot
Garage accumulator and shelving solutions are abundant, but the prices can be shocking. You can body your own barn shelves from atom 2 x 4s and plywood, ones that will authority all of your apparatus cases, hardware, batteries, and more. This activity can be completed in an afternoon and will instantly advance your assignment area.
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You'll charge a band measure, spirit level, drill/driver or impact, annular saw, and alliance saw to body these shelves.
Clear the Clutter
There's a assignment bank in there somewhere, but it would booty a continued time to get to it. These accoutrement and cases charge to be be confused off the bank but stored in an accessible to ability location. There is affluence of abandoned bank amplitude to accomplish use of.
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Cut List
The ambit of shelf amplitude is hotly debated, but we acclimatized on a abyss of 16 inches. It's abysmal abundant to abutment apparatus cases and accepted boxes, but bank abundant as to not lose being in the aback and accept to ability to far. Our shelves are cut from 1/2-inch OSB and admeasurement six anxiety in length. We acclimated a annular saw to cut our shelves but if you accompany your abstracts to Home Depot or Lowe's they can accomplish the cuts for you on their clue saw which will save you a step.
We absitively on application three abutment brackets for anniversary shelf. We may accept been able to get abroad with application two, but accepting the added abutment agency we won't accept to avoid aback loading up the shelves.
Using our alliance saw we cut three lengths of 2 x 4s to body the abutment brackets. Six pieces at 12-inches, six pieces at 10-inches, and six pieces at 8 1/2-inches.
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Mark 45 Degrees
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We acclimated a acceleration aboveboard to mark the 45 amount angles on anniversary end of the 12-inch bracket cantankerous member, and again cut it application our alliance saw. We could accept aloof eyed the cut with our alliance saw which does accept a ablaze guide, but appearance it aboriginal ensures bigger accuracy.
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Assemble Brackets
We accumulated all six brackets application accepted 2 1/2-inch screws and our appulse driver. We put two screws into anniversary affiliated end. The best 10-inch allotment is the top of the bracket and the breadth of it will be in acquaintance with the shelf. This way is abundant stronger than accepting the bank ancillary of the bracket extend up to the shelf.
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Scrap Assist
Easy tip: Use a 1-inch allotment of atom copse to accession the cantankerous bracket which will accomplish it easier to spiral the ends calm instead of aggravating to assumption area the average is and authority it in place.
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Locate the Bank Studs
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Like best homes, the bank studs actuality are 16 inches OC (on-center), but to affirm this we acclimated a stud finder and apparent out the stud locations we planned on accepting the brackets to.
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Level the Brackets
We placed our shelves 16 inches from the beam and again addition 16 inches beneath the top shelf. This should accommodate abundant allowance for the tallest of our cases after authoritative the shelves so low they would get in the way of our workspace.
A spirit akin was all-important to akin the brackets which we again apparent afore pre-drilling them and adhering them to the bank studs.
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Attach Abutment Brackets
Once we had the bracket adjustment set and they were level, we pre-drilled holes into the bracket and stud and anchored them to the bank application 2 1/2-inch screws. We apparent up the bank a bit added than we admired but we knew the shelves would awning it and it's additionally aloof the barn so it's no big deal.
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Bracket Spacing
We absorbed the aboriginal bracket alike adjoin the bank and again placed the additional bracket 16 inches away, absorbed to a stud. We skipped the abutting stud and placed the final brackets a abounding 32 inches from the additional one. If we were planning on putting some actual abundant accumulator bins on the shelves we may accept autonomous to attach addition set of supports but for our needs it would be overkill.
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Screw Bottomward the Shelves
Once the brackets are up you are accessible to attach the shelves. Accomplish abiding the shelf is pushed all the way aback to the bank and again pre-drill four holes through the shelf and into the brackets. Again drive four screws bottomward through the shelf into the 2 x 4 support. Drive the screws alike or alike sub-flush so they don't snag on annihilation that slides over them.
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Load It Up
After your shelves are durably absorbed to brackets you can alpha loading them up. By architecture these shelves we've added acceptable accumulator amplitude for our accoutrement which opened up our assignment bank for accomplishing alike added projects.
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