All together it cost a little over 100 in materials.
Threaded rod floating shelves.
Make sure these are evenly placed from each side.
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.
First video on strong floating shelves.
It s all 1x12 common pine and 1 2 threaded rod.
Not so much that it squeezes out everywhere when you put the rods in but enough so the threads are surrounded by it.
Drill two 5 16 holes on the top of your shelf.
These are the secret weapons that will make this hidden shelf strong.
Install mounting rods into wall put some epoxy glue into the holes in the wall.
For these shelves we used 5 8 threaded rods for the edges and 1 4 threaded rods for the center.
We also planned to use liquid nails inside the holes in the shelves.
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.
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.
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.
Https youtu be naoakoifkao after experimenting with floating shelves for several years now i ve found ways to make.
I chose 3 8 inch sucker rod.
Also called threaded rod these rods are like long bolts without heads.