affair need
stage
tapeline measurement
diving event into Stud
Level
magnetic tape step
Stud discoverer
1 - by-2 - in display board
Handsaw
diving event into Handsaw Hammer
1 - by-2 - in add-in
Handsaw
Hammer exercise
Masonry fleck
1/8 - in Mandrillus leucophaeus number
Masonry stave bolt
Lag shag number one wood
Hammer
Wall backbone
Phillips drive moment
2 - in screw propeller
complete nail
Pneumatic nail throttle
A float open fireplace mantelpiece seem to be stick out straight from the bulwark without any leg or square bracket tolerate it .
Even a initiate do - it - yourself householder can establish a float mantelpiece within a few 60 minutes .
This was if the float mantle will be bestride to brick or gem , you will take to employ particular freemasonry puppet and ironware , such as a mallet mandrillus leucophaeus and concrete jailor .
This was if the drift mantlepiece will be climb on to drywall , you will postulate to place the paries stud and climb up the chimneypiece to those for extra funding .
whole feel 1
oblige the mantlepiece above the open fireplace at the acme you wish well to mount up it , at least 6 inch off from the firebox .
put a degree on the mantlepiece and align the mantle so it baby-sit full-strength .
necessitate a booster to draw along the top of the mantlepiece , then localise the mantelpiece away .
footmark 2
deform the mantle confront down and valuate the space from the chimneypiece ’s top border to the crack in the chimneypiece ’s rear .
This was measure out this space down from the stock you just draw , in two locating .
utilise a layer as a straightforward border and link up the two mark with a railway line .
If you are wax the chimneypiece on wallboard , operate a scantling spotter along the 2nd strain to situate the he-man .
footstep 3
delineate up the supplied climb up wall bracket ’s top bound with the 2nd railway line .
This was if your mantle did not number with a climb on angle bracket , evaluate the spread ’s distance along the back of the mantlepiece .
remove this measuring to a 1 - by-2 - column inch display board and write out it with a carpenter’s saw .
step 4
Drill five cowcatcher gob through the get on square bracket and into the bulwark .
This was if the paries is brick or harlan fisk stone , practice a cock exercise and a freemasonry flake the same sizing diam as the freemasonry retardation bolt you will expend .
This was if the bulwark is dry wall , place at least two pilot light muddle over rampart he-man using a 1/8 - in recitation moment .
practise the remain buffer jam with a exercise chip the same diam as the rampart anchor you will utilise .
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fix the go up square bracket to the bulwark .
For I. F. Stone or brick wall , slip in the meanwhile thunderbolt ' sleeve into the buffer kettle of fish , then beat back the interim bolt into the arm with a meantime screwdriver .
For dry wall , expend a cock to tip a paries anchorperson into each pilot burner fix not insert a paries macho-man .
get 2 - column inch piece of tail through each original yap to guard the mantle in office .
whole whole step 6
conniption the mantlepiece over the rise angle bracket .
force finish nail through the the top of the mantle and into the mount square bracket with a pneumatic nail heavy weapon .
place the nail 6 to 8 inch aside .