John Lindal’s Blog

New Shelves

After I assembled a three shelf cabinet and moved some of our clothes down from the shelf above the clothes rack, that shelf finally broke. I knew it was junk from the moment I noticed that it was two pieces of 3/8 inch particle board joined above a horizontal beam nailed to the wall!

Now it’s a single piece of 3/4 inch particle board held up by two heavy duty shelf brackets. The clothes rack is still a hack, but at least it’s screwed solidly to the shelf above it via a 3/4 inch beam.

I learned one interesting trick while sweating to screw the shelf brackets to the wall: When one does not have a 90° screwdriver, a ratchet wrench with a 1/4 inch socket will nicely hold a screwdriver bit intended for a ratchet screwdriver!