For these shelves we used 5 8 threaded rods for the edges and 1 4 threaded rods for the center.
Threaded rod floating shelves.
Floating shelf hardware heavy duty floating shelves bracket perfect invisible supports for fireplace mantle or rustic live edge wood shelving 6 inch stainless support rod shelve kit 6 4 5 out of 5 stars 75.
Install mounting rods into wall put some epoxy glue into the holes in the wall.
100 mm of the rod is fitted into the provided bored hole in the rear of the floating shelf suitable for custom manufactured floating shelves of thickness 18mm 1 8cm and above and with a depth of 200mm brackets can be used to fit deeper shelves but weight capacity decreases as shelf depth increases use a.
Also called threaded rod these rods are like long bolts without heads.
I built these shelves for a friend.
Make sure these are evenly placed from each side.
I chose 3 8 inch sucker rod.
The solid steel support rod is in total 172 mm long x 12mm diameter with 72mm of the bracket rod length threaded with expanding wall plug included for fixing into the wall substrate.
Our tentative plan is to use 12 inch x 5 8 inch steel threaded rod to support the shelves by screwing the rods about 3 inches into the studs and then sliding the shelves with holes drilled in them to correspond to the rods onto the rods.
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First video on strong floating shelves.
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All together it cost a little over 100 in materials.
Not so much that it squeezes out everywhere when you put the rods in but enough so the threads are surrounded by it.
Measure the height you want your floating shelves to sit on your wall and cut the threaded rods 3 4 inches longer than that measurement.
12 lengths of 5 8 threaded rod quantity depends on the number of studs you have to drill into 2 12 framing lumber cut to the desired length of your floating shelf 1 2 drill bit long enough to drill 3 into stud 5 8 drill bit long enough to drill 8 into shelf epoxy or construction.