How to mount Ikea shelving unit ?

[dtmpower]

I am thinking of buying one of these when I get round to buying a new tv.



But I am concerned about the mounting of the top unit. My lounge wall where it would go is a block wall between the lounge and the garage, but it has plasterboard and then a small gap to the blocks. The unit must weight about 20kg.


With this in mind I might also mount to tv on the wall and am faced them with a similar issue.

[thinfourth2]

For the shelve just use those plasterboard screw things

For the telly i would drill all the way into the garage and use std bar onto a back plate and then the telly will never move

[pacman1]

As the title suggests, the last time I tried to assemble one of their products, half way through I thought, fk this.

Edited by pacman1 on Monday 27th December 08:44

[Festive Ferg]

I'd just use long screws and a brown plug for the shelf. The gap between the dry-lining and the blocks may well be too small for a plasterboard fixing.

[7ommy]

It uses three fixings one in the middle and on each end, due to the constantly opening door i wouldn't rely on just plasterboard fixings.

[Simpo Two]

Forget the plasterboard; concentrate on getting as firm grip into the blockwork behind. The force is downwards at the bottom but forwards at the top - in other words, once the simple weight is taken, there will be a pulling moment forwards from the top. Nice long screws and rawlplugs; or use window frame fixings if you're really nervous.

Edited by Simpo Two on Monday 27th December 10:59

[Spudler]

Festive Ferg said:

I'd just use long screws and a brown plug for the shelf. The gap between the dry-lining and the blocks may well be too small for a plasterboard fixing.

Assuming the blocks are lightweight, use a drill bit 1mm smaller than required, ie brown plug use 6mm instead of 7.

[dtmpower]

Spudler said:

Festive Ferg said:

I'd just use long screws and a brown plug for the shelf. The gap between the dry-lining and the blocks may well be too small for a plasterboard fixing.

Assuming the blocks are lightweight, use a drill bit 1mm smaller than required, ie brown plug use 6mm instead of 7.

So the unit mounted flush against the plasterboard but with the plugs going into the blocks behind (with the small gap) will be ok ?

[Festive Ferg]

It should be. The flat back of the shelves should spread the load. The gap isn't right across, obviously, there are dots and dabs of adhesive in there and if you are lucky you'll drill through one of these.

[Stevenj214]

dtmpower said:

I am thinking of buying one of these when I get round to buying a new tv.

Got a link to it? I need something similar!

[dtmpower]

Stevenj214 said:

dtmpower said:

I am thinking of buying one of these when I get round to buying a new tv.

Got a link to it? I need something similar!

www.ikea.com , select uk , select lounge , then select media and tv - or search for besta

[m3jappa]

pacman1 said:

As the title suggests, the last time I tried to assemble one of their products, half way through I thought, fk this.

Edited by pacman1 on Monday 27th December 08:44

Lol

Recently i got myself a 3m long x 2m high pax wardrobe. I am tradesman, having worked in the building trade since 97.
Phoned my mate at about half 6 on a sunday evening, believing it would take a couple of hours at most.

Lol and the rest, i think he left at 1am while i carried on tidying up until 1:30am on a sunday.

I genuinely think a joe bloggs with no experience of things going together could do it or maybe they could but it would take them weeks.


As mentioned above use those metal plasterboard plugs, its quite surprising how much weight plasterbopard will take. If your concerned put a few more fixings in.

[Spudler]

Festive Ferg said:

It should be. The flat back of the shelves should spread the load. The gap isn't right across, obviously, there are dots and dabs of adhesive in there and if you are lucky you'll drill through one of these.

Same as ^^.

If you dont happen to drill through adhesive what i've done before is drill the hole through the board and if hollow then squirt a small amount of expanding foam which will spread behind the board and provide a very firm background, very effective.
Dont go crazy with the foam, it dosen't take much, and you dont want the board to bow

[Globs]

dtmpower said:

I am thinking of buying one of these when I get round to buying a new tv.



But I am concerned about the mounting of the top unit. My lounge wall where it would go is a block wall between the lounge and the garage, but it has plasterboard and then a small gap to the blocks. The unit must weight about 20kg.


With this in mind I might also mount to tv on the wall and am faced them with a similar issue.

I'm a bit confused the bottom bit looks like some type of cupboard, but what's the top bit for?

[miniman]

It's, well, some kind of cupboard too.

[Fatboy]

Globs said:

dtmpower said:

I am thinking of buying one of these when I get round to buying a new tv.



But I am concerned about the mounting of the top unit. My lounge wall where it would go is a block wall between the lounge and the garage, but it has plasterboard and then a small gap to the blocks. The unit must weight about 20kg.


With this in mind I might also mount to tv on the wall and am faced them with a similar issue.

I'm a bit confused the bottom bit looks like some type of cupboard, but what's the top bit for?

It's where you keep your full-auto shotgun and chainsaw in case of Zombie attack.

[Globs]

Fatboy said:

It's where you keep your full-auto shotgun and chainsaw in case of Zombie attack.

I do have to question the wisdom of suspending heavy objects directly above an expensive telly. Or even a cheap one..

I'd put the chainsaws into the cupboard at the bottom TBH.

[talkssense]

Sounds like a dot and dab wall? For each fixing drill a small pilot hole first. If you hit a "dab" of the fixing adhesive just use a brown plug. If not, use one of the fixings linked below. They ensure a solid fix into the wall behind, while eliminating any compression of the plasterboard into the gap.

http://www.deltaleigh.co.uk/pdf/rigifix.pdf

Brilliant product, that I have used many times. No one seems to have heard of them which is odd because people must be hanging heavy stuff off these walls all the time.

[Fatboy]

Globs said:

Fatboy said:

It's where you keep your full-auto shotgun and chainsaw in case of Zombie attack.

I do have to question the wisdom of suspending heavy objects directly above an expensive telly. Or even a cheap one..

I'd put the chainsaws into the cupboard at the bottom TBH.

You need them at action height - that 2 second delay getting them out of the bottom cupboard and bringing them up to firing level could be fatal in a Zombie attack scenario...

[thinfourth2]

m3jappa said:

pacman1 said:

As the title suggests, the last time I tried to assemble one of their products, half way through I thought, fk this.

Edited by pacman1 on Monday 27th December 08:44

Lol

Recently i got myself a 3m long x 2m high pax wardrobe. I am tradesman, having worked in the building trade since 97.
Phoned my mate at about half 6 on a sunday evening, believing it would take a couple of hours at most.

Lol and the rest, i think he left at 1am while i carried on tidying up until 1:30am on a sunday.

I genuinely think a joe bloggs with no experience of things going together could do it or maybe they could but it would take them weeks.


As mentioned above use those metal plasterboard plugs, its quite surprising how much weight plasterbopard will take. If your concerned put a few more fixings in.

Yes your a tradesman who does garden paths and driveways.

Ikea stuff is a piece of piss to assemble I've never had trouble.