Could've used real nails. That all my battens have - 1” oval nails into the side battens. Still, you made a nice job of it. Well done.
Help a novice with shelving an airing cupboard :)
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Nails would not be appropriate right fixings for this, all that unnecessary banging away on the supports and not easily removable without more banging away.
Mines been up since we moved in back in 1990. I took them out in 2017 for the heating company to fit an unvented hot water cylinder and associated plumbing and refitted them straight after. Took me all of 10 minutes. The side battens take the eight, the nails are just to stop the cross battens from moving about.
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Provided the battens fixed to the wall are solid, the battens forming the shelf barely need to be fixed at all - in fact you could assemble them outside the cupboard with another batten across them each end, inset, and just rest the whole assembled shelf in (like ours in a previous house were). If you want them to be "fixed" just use a few blobs of no-nails, PU glue or other adhesive - they wont be going anywhere!
You'll find if you try screwing close to the end of the batten without pilots, that it will split. Inset battens to fix the spacing of the slats to form a seperate shelf is much easier
You'll find if you try screwing close to the end of the batten without pilots, that it will split. Inset battens to fix the spacing of the slats to form a seperate shelf is much easier
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