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Making Shelves on Hollow Block Walls in the Basement

Basements make great places to store household items, but your basement can quickly become a disorganized jumble without some way to order your items. Adding shelves to your basement walls can help, but attaching shelves to the hollow-block walls used to build most basements is a little more difficult than attaching them to a wooden wall or other surface. With the right tools and materials, though, you'll have no trouble making shelves for your basement wall.

Things You'll Need

  • Tape measure
  • Pencil
  • Level
  • Straight edge
  • Eight shelf brackets
  • Drill
  • 1/4-inch masonry bit
  • 1/4-inch masonry anchors with screws
  • Screwdriver
  • Four 4-foot 1-by-12-inch boards
  • 1/2-inch wood screws
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Instructions

    • 1

      Determine the location where you want to mount the shelves. Measure up from the floor and make a pencil mark on the wall at 16 inches, 32 inches, 44 inches and 52 inches.

    • 2

      Place a straight edge on each of the marks and put a level on top. Center the bubble of the level and then draw a 48-inch line along the straight edge.

    • 3

      Place a shelf bracket 12 inches in from the right end of the lowest line. Mark the bracket holes onto the wall with a pencil. Repeat, 12 inches in from the left end. Drill holes with a carbide-tipped drill bit at each of the marked locations. Insert masonry wall anchors into the holes.

    • 4

      Line up the bracket mounting holes with the wall anchors. Insert screws through the mounting holes and into the anchors. Tighten them with a screwdriver.

    • 5

      Repeat the previous two steps on each of the three remaining lines.

    • 6

      Place a wooden shelf board onto the brackets, starting at the top. Insert a screw into the hole in the bottom of the bracket and screw it into each board to keep the shelf boards in position.

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