Chris Jenkins
12-11-2006, 10:01 AM
I recently closed on a house and most of the boxes have been unpacked aside from the the office to be. In our last house I bought stock countertops from the local home center and cantilevered them off the wall by using some 2 x 4 bracing (2 pieces forming a 90 and a 45 support). We liked the way it worked so much for us last time the wife wants to do it again.
This time I am trying to get a bit smarter about the installation. Instead of leveling all these individual braces, I want to slap up a 2 x 4 down the length of the wall and build the braces off off of that. This way I just level one surface and build off of that and shim only a few spots in the end rather than individual braces.
Does that sound like a better plan? Is there some type of "standard" way of doing this? Also I planned on making the supports 10 - 12 long supporting the countertop that is 25" deep. Is this enough? Last time I made the supports 16" long, but we would hit our knees on the ends of them (even though I beveled the ends). The heaviest things that would be on this countertop our the PC monitors, so I figure I could go a bit shorter on the bracing (the 16" braces allowed me to walk on top of the countertops last time!)
Thanks
This time I am trying to get a bit smarter about the installation. Instead of leveling all these individual braces, I want to slap up a 2 x 4 down the length of the wall and build the braces off off of that. This way I just level one surface and build off of that and shim only a few spots in the end rather than individual braces.
Does that sound like a better plan? Is there some type of "standard" way of doing this? Also I planned on making the supports 10 - 12 long supporting the countertop that is 25" deep. Is this enough? Last time I made the supports 16" long, but we would hit our knees on the ends of them (even though I beveled the ends). The heaviest things that would be on this countertop our the PC monitors, so I figure I could go a bit shorter on the bracing (the 16" braces allowed me to walk on top of the countertops last time!)
Thanks