DIY How To Install Floating Shelves On A Subway Tile Backsplash

today's video we're going to show you how to install some floating wooden shelves on finished tile how hot is that so today in the building world there's a craze going on with using big slab lumber this is a two and a quarter and you can go to the building stores and you'll see there's a display they've got this thick lumber and they've got some live edge on it and they're selling table legs and the idea is you can glue and screw these things together to make a great big table with a nice live edge all the way around and they come pre-drilled with some pocket screws you see those okay nice fabulous now I had a crazy idea I wanted to mount some floating shelves on this wall and I didn't want to do the traditional you know Dowling and that sort of thing because it's very very difficult to be precise with Dowling and I thought wow what a great idea what if we just drill the hole and use these new structural screws now these bad boys here are I think they're the headlock program timber lock yeah these black screws here timber lock screws and they're actually been engineered and designed to be the same strength as a 3/8 galvanized bolt well that's really strong we was that for structural lumber when we're building decks so if I can get a couple of these into this right into the framework of the wall I'm confident that this is gonna hold the shelf up because let's be honest here when you're installing kitchen cabinets you're gonna get four little screws that are holding up the weight of all that cabinet and all your dishes so all the decorative shelf like this needs maybe maybe a hundred or 200 pounds these bad boys are rated for a thousand pounds each so if you have a climber in your family and then you can be confident they're not going to fall off with the shelf the funny thing is here max came into the room he goes oh you have a blueprint and a great joke by the way but what I did is I just taped out just visually so I could see what the finished hood fan and shelves would look like and I've just kind of scaled things back until I liked it aesthetically now this tape is based on the laser level line that we put on there so we're gonna have a couple of different dimensions and this gives me the ability to mark my studs on the tape put down my numbers and keep all my math on that wall without affecting the tile so the basic tools that we need for this job is like you can expect we need the timber lock screws we're of course gonna need some plastic wood I like using this stuff because it dries quick and I can get on to my sanding right away you need a black marker of course they sell these at the building store by Milwaukee and you're gonna need one of these now this isn't necessarily available in your building stores you might have to do a little hunting go to a tile supply store most of these places sell stuff like this this bit is actually $85 as top of the line there are other options available in the 30 dollar range and if your tile is ceramic it'll do just fine I bought this one because I use this for gone through ceramic and porcelain when I'm doing my shower fixtures of course we're gonna need a drill impact driver put in the screws and for this bit just a regular VSR drill and I'll take it off hammer function so don't drive everybody crazy now I've already checked before I built the wall and it fit the cover plate off and the framing for this wall is right beside on the right side of this plate and I know that my Center mark is actually just to the right of the plate cover which is right here so I can use that as my mark knowing that is where my framing is and then I can measure off my 16 s for the frame on this wall because that is the way we frame walls in North America every 16 inch all right and you use a black marker on the tape to mark the center of the stud and then I'm going to mark from the wall to the line and I'm going to put my measurements on here so I got a seven and of course plus 16 is 23 from there I've taken my slab with the pre-drilled holes and I've already cut this one down what did I do this I just marked the center line here and I measured back seven inches made a mark and cut the slab and there's my 23 and there's my finish mark I want to come to 39 just right here like the tape shows so now that I've got it all laid out and I can put it up here and confirm that I'm lined up I like that I've got to drill holes now let's just take a quick look at what it looks like when this comes through the other side of the wood so we have an idea where the pocket screw is going to come in right smack dab in the middle that is awesome so because you want a clean line when you're finished which is why I titled the first I actually want my bottom edge of the wood to just be touching the top of this tile okay so let's translate that information 2 inch piece of wood from the bottom that tile it goes just to the top of the tape so what I want to do is I want to mark my centerline okay so one inch off that tile that's my centerline and the reason I want to do that is I don't want to have a gap appearing here whereas tile and then grow it in the tile Negro because the wood isn't necessarily going to perfectly straight so we'll drop it down just a hair and so then we're gonna want that to be the center of our hole take another eighth off for good measure now this particular hole saw has a pilot drill bit as well so what I can do is I can just line that up on my tape mark and then start drilling through and you'll see that it was a little wobbly after the pilot drill holes started but that's the point of this tip this pilot hold keeps your drill bit from rocking around to wild and so once I get these holes started then I'll take out my pilot hole and then I'll drill all the way through this bit comes with an allen key that I can use to reverse my set screw and pull out my starter now we'll just finish off these holes [Music] yep there's definitely one in there make sure you clean this out as you go once it gets jammed up is really hard to clean up I like to just do a little rocking lotion as I'm drilling I think relief reduces the amount of contact that I have with the bit so doesn't overheat [Music] [Music] so now we're done with this tape you can see following that procedure you won't crack your grout lines or anything it's not about speed and pressure here it's just about letting the bit do the job and you'll walk away from that unscathed so I'm gonna set up my laser across the room and just drop that laser line down until it's just on the top of that tile in case you're wondering the outside corner beads of this wall we're done with the metal corner bead and that laser has a magnetic lock on the back so I can put that on any corner in the house as long as it's got a metal corner baton it just sticks there on the wall by itself won't even scratch the paint so I'm choosing to install it with these pocket hole screws up because once this is installed most people aren't gonna see the top of the shelf they're only gonna see the bottom all right so I want to make sure that this is gonna be out of the hot line of sight now we get to do a little bit of trial and error here and I'm thinking I want to just get my wood underneath my screws I'll start here right on that laser line okay and then drive my bed home [Music] just throw in our bed extender here I'm driving all the way so just because you got a great idea doesn't mean it's always gonna work this screw actually hit our stud just a little off-center and as I was driving through its the wood split and the big chunk tore off so our screw is now it's just spinning on the wall so what I have to do now is because I'm gonna be using wood filler and sanding anyway I don't have a choice but to line up my hole do I have a new screws sure that well on the angle to hit the far side of the stud and give it a little bit of a lift because it pulled off level okay back to level so for the purpose of the video our way in the last couple of steps but I would sure anybody willing to tackle this kind of a project at home is probably more than capable of finishing there with but really all it comes down to its mixing up a little bit of your plastic wood here this stuff is really amazing cuz it doesn't shrink and it smells awesome all right of course we're just gonna put that in and press it in we don't have a lot of residue because although it's sandable anyone who's ever worked for this stuff before no isn't it's not that sandable it'll give you a bit of a fight we'll let that set up a little bit and it'll come back and fill it up somewhere later so there you go I'm not gonna waste all your time sanding and finishing the wood we're just gonna use a straight-up very thin finish on this which would be really easy to maintain and keep the dust from collecting if you want to see how this looks when it's all done check out the video links at the end of this video because we're gonna have the reveal for the whole project you'll see the kitchen and the custom-made hood fan all those elements make sure if you haven't check out the concrete countertop video it's very cool and subscribe if you haven't subscribed I would like everybody to hit the like button on this video because this is a great project for anybody to do

Channel: Home RenoVision DIY

Views: 718,588

Keywords: jeff thorman, home reno, renovation, bathroom, do it yourself, diy, how to, tutorial, step by step, home reno vision, home renovision, renovision, contractor, renovate, floating shelves, live edge

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Length: 11min 24sec (684 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 07 2018