Who oh DIY
I thought I'd take the last night before I travel to finish some waiting DIY. Fortunately my dad had idiot proofed the idea of putting up shelves for me. He made some vertical brackets which fitted to the wall, some horizontal brackets which attach to the top of them, some diagonal crosspieces with doweling to make it all strong and some actual shelves to attach. Brilliant. All I have to do is screw the vertical brackets to the wall. I've even had screws provided, no bother. I can have two shelves fitted in my boiler cupboard and it will look great.
I want the ironing board to sit underneath the shelves so I measured it carefully so the bottom of the lowest vertical bracket was just above the ironing board. Initially I forgot about the size of the brackets and had to remeasure for the second (higher shelf) but soon I got the bottom of it's bracket fixed too, about eye level for me... a little high for a shelf but bearable. They screwed into the walls pretty easily and all went up like a dream.
Did you spot it? Did you? If you didn't then you've no right to feel superior to me. I'd measured where the shelves should be to the bottom of the vertical brackets but, in fact the shelves sit on the TOP of them. This means that the *lowest* shelf is about eye level to me. The *highest* shelf is in fact more than two metres off the ground and I could not see what was on the shelf or reach things off it without jumping. Oh dear. It is fixed very securely but you know that does not seem such an achievement. The bad thing is it did not even occur to me until I came to actually put the shelves onto the brackets.
Oh well. 50% of the shelves are up.
I want the ironing board to sit underneath the shelves so I measured it carefully so the bottom of the lowest vertical bracket was just above the ironing board. Initially I forgot about the size of the brackets and had to remeasure for the second (higher shelf) but soon I got the bottom of it's bracket fixed too, about eye level for me... a little high for a shelf but bearable. They screwed into the walls pretty easily and all went up like a dream.
Did you spot it? Did you? If you didn't then you've no right to feel superior to me. I'd measured where the shelves should be to the bottom of the vertical brackets but, in fact the shelves sit on the TOP of them. This means that the *lowest* shelf is about eye level to me. The *highest* shelf is in fact more than two metres off the ground and I could not see what was on the shelf or reach things off it without jumping. Oh dear. It is fixed very securely but you know that does not seem such an achievement. The bad thing is it did not even occur to me until I came to actually put the shelves onto the brackets.
Oh well. 50% of the shelves are up.