How Wide Can You Make Floating Shelves
Like anywhere from 25lbs to well over 300lbs.
How wide can you make floating shelves. You can buy new hollow core interior doors at a home center or lumberyard just be sure the door doesn t have predrilled holes for locksets. The next sheet of ob needs to be ripped down to 18 450 mm wide and 24 600 mm wide. Hollow core door lag screws and cleat that hold the shelf to the wall. In shelfology there is always a long and a short answer.
But since i used 1x6s which are actually only 5 1 2 wide i tilted my table saw blade 45 degrees and adjusted the rip fence about 5 1 2 from the tilted tip of the blade. You just want to barely cut off the corner but not take off much width. I used 1x2s for the sides of each shelf cut to length for the back and front pieces so 69 or 5 9 long and width for the sides minus the width of the front and back pieces i wanted 12 wide shelves but the actual width of 1x2s are 1 1 2 wide so that meant only 9 for the side pieces. These will be the top and middle shelves.
The frame is pretty easy to make. Today we give you the short for us answer to this question how much weight can a floating shelf hold. Since we are shelf geeks and own a company that manufactures floating shelves this is an easy one for us. The design is a great combination of strength and ease of constru.
If you want deeper shelves you can use wider boards. The answer is a lot of weight if it is done right. This is best way i ve found to make floating shelves and can be adapted to any size needed. Each floating shelf is made from half of an 18 in.