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Simple built-in shleves

  • 26-02-2016 11:04am
    #1
    renov8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52 ✭✭


    I am looking at installing built in shelves in several rooms. The room I am going to tackle first has a space either side of a chimney breast, approx .75 metres wide by .5 deep, reaching up to the ceiling. I have seen many examples of people using mdf and painting it but am worried that this will sag or warp over time and under weight. Could anyone recommend alternative solid woods that would not be too expensive and that would look good unpainted or perhaps stained/varnished?


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  • #2
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,466 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    .75 of a meter is ok for a shelf provided you are using the thick MDF. (the likes of Argos bookcases are only the thin chipboard and they take book weights ok.) You could put a supporting strip on the back wall, or a couple of invisible supports if your walls are straight, and it would improve the appearance if you glued and screwed a strip of timber along the front edge of the MDF, which will give the appearance of those really solid shelves. This would also serve to stop the front edge of the mdf from sagging. If you are using the thick stuff (19mm I think) I reckon it would be ok anyway. I had some approx 120cm shelves like that with a load of books and only a round edge trim on the front, ad they never moved.


  • #3
    hooplah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 570 ✭✭✭hooplah


    What would you go with for invisible supports?


  • #4
    Bonzo Delaney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,577 ✭✭✭Bonzo Delaney


    hooplah wrote: »
    What would you go with for invisible supports?

    Prob these boyos http://www.hafele.ie/hircat/templates/hafele/browse.asp?newrecordset=yes&classlevel=5956


  • #5
    renov8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52 ✭✭renov8


    Thanks for the reply, seems I was wrong about MDF so. I now need to think about how to actually construct the shelves i.e. use concealed supports as above or go for batons.


  • #6
    Bonzo Delaney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,577 ✭✭✭Bonzo Delaney


    Have a look at this thread here
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057535943


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