Found myself humming that song this morning. Little Bear and I took a nice walk looping around toward Landlady’s place to tend chickens, and on the way I got to thinking about drywall anchors for closet and book shelves. Never having had a scrap of drywall on the Lair until very recently I didn’t own a single one. I could get some tomorrow if D&L want to take their semi-regular Saturday trip to the dollar store but that’s not certain, and anyway it’s kind of a hassle.
On the other hand I know where stuff is stashed in Landlady’s barn…
So now I have shelf brackets and drywall anchors. Now to scrounge up some lumber for the shelves themselves…
Of course, if you were to screw the shelf brackets directly into the studs instead of just into the drywall, they would be far more able to support a significant weight. Assuming you got decent shelf brackets. But then if you can’t hit the studs with the shelves where you want them, then that isn’t an option.
Y’know, Joel, the juxtaposition of “now I have shelf brackets and drywall anchors” and the gat in the picture might lead a new reader to get the wrong impression. 🙂
More than any other song, that one that will pop into my head the most frequently and randomly.
What Mark said. Get some cheap standards, a couple of rails screwed into the studs and you can put your bowling ball collection in the shelves. Lots of flexibility and easy to install and change as needed. Would not bother hanging anything more than a picture or painting on drywall.
“Get some cheap standards”
Hey, my standards have been so cheap for years that they’re almost nonexistent. Or do you mean something else?
Really you guys think I don’t know that? Sometimes a closet rod brace or shelf bracket has to go where it has to go, whether or not there’s a stud there. Example: I can secure the two side closet rod braces to studs, no problem. But the middle one falls in the middle, where I happen to know there’s no stud. Hence drywall anchors. I’ve watched enough of them pull out of walls for them not to be my first choice.
I assume that there will be a deep shelf over closet rod for storage? Will it/could it be sturdy enough to support the center of your closet rod?
Just want to be sure, because sometimes things can go tango uniform in a hurry. And I doubt that you want to be patching holes where drywall anchors have pulled out anytime soon. Not to mention how pissed LB would be if the shelf fell on him when it decided to go with gravity….
Actually, the gat picture is even more interesting in that it appears to reveal a handful of the super-secret, special-operator-only, SELF-SILENCING, hyper-velocity, helical-threaded pistol bullets normally fired from a high-capacity, bump-fired, extended clip assault weapon.
OMG OMG OMG