Tips for Installing Shelves Using Drywall Anchors

Series Summary

When installing shelving to drywall, or even hanging a picture for that matter, it’s important to use anchors. Drywall, or sheet rock, is a basic building material used to complete the interior walls and ceilings of structures worldwide. It’s lightweight and allows contractors to complete wall construction in much less time than the lath-and-plaster wall building method that drywall replaced, and it’s easy enough for do-it-yourself home carpenters to install. Because drywall can be easily damaged, it’s important to use the right kind of anchors to support the weight of your shelves.

In this series of free DIY video clips, expert contractor Dominic Capone demonstrates the simple process of how to install a shelving unit to drywall using anchors. These basic tips can be easily adapted to construct a closet, pantry or entertainment center. With the proper anchors, tools and instruction from these free video clips, you’ll be able to hang just about anything on drywall.

Video Transcript

" Hey there! This is Dominic with expertvillage.com and today I’m going to show you guys how to install something properly. No it’s not a jail to put your kids way in although it could kind of look good, nice profile. It’s actually shelves wire shelves common shelves that you see in lots of newly remodeled homes, people go out to different stores Crate and Barrel, Home Depot, Lowes they buy these wire shelves and they put them up in their closets and their pantry and believe it or not people just have a really hard time installing these as simple as they are and the other thing is that they install them wrong and the couple of months go down the road and these things are coming out of the wall. I’m sure that everybody has seen those and there’s holes in the dry wall and they can’t support anything as soon as you put 10 pounds on them, oh my god these things are coming out of the wall and someone help me my shelves are falling out. So I’m going to show you guys the proper way to install these wire shelves and I’m going to show you guys the type of anchors that you’re going to use also so that the shelves don’t climb the wall anymore like literally you can sit on them well depends on may be if you like a little short guy but you can sit on and shelves, well come out. I’m going to show you guys a great way to install these things into your dry wall so strong it will hold all your cans of soup and next segment we’re going to go into that. "