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  • Planning to put a scaffold board up the full length of the wall in our living room. Conveniently its just under 13ft so a scaffold board should fit with minimal trimming.

    Hung all of the brackets this morning, and plan to put timber laths on the walls it meets at either end for additional support. As I was drilling the holes I noticed that it's mainly just drywall it's going into (drywall/space/something harder and more brittle than drywall, but not sure if it's block).

    On a scale of one to certainly, how likely is it to pull my wall down once I put the board up and start loading it with bric-รก-brac?

  • Is it and internal or external wall? How old is the property?

    It could be dot & dab onto breeze block - which is a ballache to hang stuff on.

    Maybe screw into the brick behind, with standoffs to get some solidity.

    If it's stud, then screw battens across the studs, and hang the shelf brackets off those.

  • Its an exterior wall and it could well be dot and dab.

    Good shout on lining up with the studs, i should have done that in the first place rather than trying to evenly space the brackets across the wall. Best get the filler out this eve! Glad i done this before painting the wall!

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