Locate and mark your shelf.
How to hang floating shelves on plaster walls.
Of course there are no studs were i need them.
Place a carpenters level alongside the bracket.
Determine where you want your shelves and how wide they will be.
Plaster walls with available studs.
Determine the height.
Use a stud finder to locate the studs within the walls.
We were going to use toggle bolts but after we drilled the holes for the toggle bolts we discovered there s only about 3 cm of space between the back of the lath and the exterior masonry.
I m trying to hang two small floating shelves on a section of plaster wall.
Floating shelves generally require two wall studs.
Consider what you will be storing on your shelf.
Now that you have.
Place one of the brackets against the wall at the first shelf location.
Use a stud finder to locate wooden studs hidden behind the plaster wall.
Shelves that are expected to hold any.
Mark both side.