Hoe Do You Mount The Besta Shelf To The Wall

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Hoe do you mount the besta shelf to the wall.

The rail screws into the wall studs and gives extra reinforcement. The bestå suspension rail makes it easier and safer to mount a bestå frame to your wall. Studs are usually placed 16 inches apart behind drywall. 5th june 2016 chris wall mounts some besta units from ikea.

It has plenty of holes so there s always a hole over a stud. In this video you ll see how to install an ikea besta cabinet to a wall. You can easily hang several frames next to each other and align them at the exact same height thanks to the included connector. Similar to when we were installing our townhouse s kitchen cabinets ikea provides a rail system on which to anchor the shelves.

The solution is to buy a couple of 4 steel corner braces home depot probably elsewhere and attach them in the upper corners of the unit see photo. The shelf weighs 50lbs by itself and when full of books it s too heavy to hang on the drywall with hollow wall fasteners. Using the stud finder mark an x where wall studs are. The bestå suspension rail makes it easier and safer to mount a bestå frame to your wall.

Plastic part was melted so used a knife to trim it off. Also use the stud finder to search for any live wires. Previous vlog our 2nd q a. After clicking the shelves into place we could rock the top shelf backward and insert little double sided sticky foam pads to keep the top shelf from sliding around.

It has plenty of holes so there s always a hole over a stud. While waiting for the paint to dry kallax was prepared to be mounted to the wall. Tapped plastic screw sleeves into all holes so that it expands inside the material of kallax walls. The rail screws into the wall studs and gives extra reinforcement.

You can easily hang several frames next to each other and align them at the exact same height thanks to the included connector. All of my besta units are screwed together as they are not the to unit but individual cases. The instructions that come with ikea products can sometimes be a little confusing. Mounting holes were pre drilled with a counter sink bit.