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· Västernorrland
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There must be some studs C/C 600 you can aim for!
Maybe depending on how the attachment points look on the shelf. But the first dinner party at home with several leather jackets and a couple of coats, I would be nervous. I think you should, in principle and carefully, be able to hang yourself from the hat shelf. By your hands.
In that case, it doesn't work to attach only to the drywall. Our hat rack was fastened with sturdy plugs, but when our oldest daughter was nine years old (and slim and light even for her age), she decided to hang on it by her hands, and then the whole thing came down. I don't remember what type of plug it was, but it probably wouldn't have helped with molly, because it wasn't the plugs that were pulled out but rather several square centimeter-sized pieces that broke away from the board around the attachment points.akhagen said:
It was, in fact, just two attachment points.
...even though molly is good!
Had the same problem when I lived in an apartment long ago... but I built a type of trellis with planed wood.
Two horizontal pieces the same width as the hat rack and then vertical ones that went almost from the ceiling all the way down to the floor. Whitewashed it... turned out quite okay.
So it took the load from the hat rack... just screwed the trellis itself up with 4 screws.
Then I put hooks on the trellis itself at different heights, which saved a lot of screw holes in the wall.
Hope I'm not too unclear... difficult to describe. But the two horizontal pieces closest to the wall also made it come over the skirting board and could use the floor as support.
Had the same problem when I lived in an apartment long ago... but I built a type of trellis with planed wood.
Two horizontal pieces the same width as the hat rack and then vertical ones that went almost from the ceiling all the way down to the floor. Whitewashed it... turned out quite okay.
So it took the load from the hat rack... just screwed the trellis itself up with 4 screws.
Then I put hooks on the trellis itself at different heights, which saved a lot of screw holes in the wall.
Hope I'm not too unclear... difficult to describe. But the two horizontal pieces closest to the wall also made it come over the skirting board and could use the floor as support.