9/18/2023 0 Comments Floating shelf hardware diy![]() ![]() Time will tell, but I do have high hopes. The entire internet assures me it is the best one in the universe. You build stud finders, for crying out loud! They literally have ONE job! GAH! What a dismal product failure! A Better Stud Finder I’m not the kind of simmering rage-pot who carries around a mental shit list, but if I did, Zircon would hold the number one spot. It was the only way I could be sure of anything. In the end, I had to just drill a series of exploratory holes with a small drill bit across the wall. I passed the same spot a dozen times and got a dozen different readings for the center of the stud – some of them wildly off! I’ve never seen a more useless and inaccurate tool! More on that in a minute, but instead of risking two potentially weak screws driven into the edges of a stud, I decided that one in the middle and one in anchored drywall would be better. I have two of them (different models), and I had to turn the wall into swiss cheese by drilling test holes in order to find the studs. That doesn’t leave a lot of room for error, especially if you’re using a piece of crap stud finder like those Zircons sold at Home Depot and Lowe’s. I already bought the brackets!” Damn, she had this thing planned out. “He’ll be making me some floating shelves to go above the dog-feeding station! It’s so easy, my babes. “Uhhhhh,” I said, articulating as best I could my feelings about the topic. Things could go off the rails quickly with her next sentence. “Does my babes know what he’ll be making for me? Hey? Hey? Does he?” I eyeballed her warily. This floating shelf business started with number 1. “Soon I will be asking you to build ”.“Does my babes know what he’ll be making for me? Hey? Hey? Does he?”.When it comes to me getting rope-a-doped into one of my babes’ harebrained schemes (I’m kidding, they’re always good projects), it always starts with one of two utterances. My Wife Floats the Idea for…Floating Shelves ![]() While my toilet dreams remained unfulfilled (floating or solid gold – I would have taken either), Handan roped me into this DIY floating shelves project. I want that porcelain bowl to float before my eyes like a shimmering mirage in the Arabian desert! Where’s my damn floating toilet? I’m tired of squatting over a ground-based toilet like some sort of grunting ape. ![]()
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