Stick-on shelves

[quimcunx]

It's for life you know. Through thick walls or thin. You promised...

 

[mrsfran]

Please note my earlier phrasing: Mr B thinks the walls are too thin. Mr B does not want to drill holes in the walls/tiles. I do not necessarily agree. If it were up to me, there would be holes and shelves everywhere. However, we share the house and so I cannot go round drilling holes and putting up shelves. That is established. Instead of arguing, I am trying to find an alternative solution. Hence my original question.

 

[tarannau]

I think Mr B is procrastinating and feeding you duff information in the hope of avoiding DIY.

Did he have a bad incident involving a drill as a nipper?

 

[mrsfran]

He is not a DIY kind of man. I did not marry him for his DIY skillz. Yesterday, he put The Frog Chorus on my ipod as a surprise

 

[tarannau]

Using a drill isn't really DIY though, more a masculine wall-penetrating activity that anyone should warm to. Over in seconds and then it's a quick withdrawal - what's not to like?

To be fair I'm hopeless in a home improvement sense. But I maintain the impression of basic competence by maintaining a link with manually skilled proles and bribing them with food and kindness. Invite a handy friend with drill around and they'll have put the shelves up before you know it.

 

[keybored]

Mr B thinks the walls are too thin.

If it were up to me, there would be holes and shelves everywhere. However, we share the house and so I cannot go round drilling holes and putting up shelves.

The old "double cop-out dilema"

 

[Cid]

If he knows nothing of DIY then he should not be entitled to comment on it, the walls will be thick enough. Or they wouldn't have a shower on them.

Anyway, as I said, is there not something you can just hang a cup/shelf from?

 

[mrsfran]

Ok, this isn't a bash Alex thread. No more criticising of his DIY knowledge/abilities please.

There really isn't anything I could hang a shelf from. There is a door, but anything placed on a shelf hung off there would fall off every time we opened the door. All I want is a shelf to pop toothbrushes and toothpaste on. I think a stick-on one, as linked to above, will work.

 

[kabbes]

Silly Fran, Urbans exists to overcomplicate everything. You should know that by now.

 

[Santino]

If he knows nothing of DIY then he should not be entitled to comment on it, the walls will be thick enough. Or they wouldn't have a shower on them.

Which wall is this then?

 

[Rosco]

Even a thin plasterboard wall using plugs/screws will hold a shelf over time better than glue, even more securely if fixing through a layer of tile and tile adhesive.

Do you not fancy drilling through tiles? As has been said it's easy, you don't even really need a tile bit. Check there is no pipework/electrics in the cavity. Put PVC tape over the area to be drilled (stops drill skating over the tile), mark the spot on the tape. Use a 5.5mm masonry bit in a variable speed drill. Make sure the drill is NOT set to hammer action! Start slow until you feel the drill bit break through the glaze, then speed it up and push through. Insert red rawlplug and use #8 screws (#10 for a tighter, more secure fit). Done.

Yep as above.

Missfran, your internal walls sound like studwalls, ie sound thin and weak but in reality about 3 or 4 inches thick, mostly hollow but with timber frame. This type of wall with tiles on is fine to drill into and will always give a very good screw fixing. Even without tiles, with the correct fixings almost anything can be fixed on the wall.

 

[softybabe]

i got one of these

... soap dish and hand towel holder too

here's a link...i'm shit posting pics

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wenko-Wense...1_29?ie=UTF8&s=kitchen&qid=1235515720&sr=1-29