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What size(girth) screws and which plugs? Adding more battens will likely be hard to get exactly in the right spot to properly distribute the load. If you have them too high, it will want to lift off the top battens. Too low, it will pull down more on the top ones. I would have thought you'd be fine. I've seen kitchen units that hold (far too much) crockery hung by less. But then, @Bobbo could likely weight in and tell me I'm talking bollocks, which I'm fine with.
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I’d always have a batten at the bottom, simply to rely on compression rather than tension (sitting on something vs hanging off something).
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A few things to consider there:
- Are the shelves strong enough not to be pulled apart by the weight of stuff on them? As @nefarious said you might not want the whole thing under tension.
- How are the shelves actually held onto the wall? Are they split battens with a slope that pushes the shelf to the wall under load or will it be screwed to the them or to the wall elsewhere?
- Are the battens secure? I'd be inclined to go deeper onto the brick if you're only using 50mm screws to go through plaster and into brick. My kitchen cupboards are incredibly heavily loaded but are only hanging on 2 frame fixings, which are much deeper.
- Are the shelves strong enough not to be pulled apart by the weight of stuff on them? As @nefarious said you might not want the whole thing under tension.
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3 batons of 20mm x 30mm each with 3 50mm screws through into rawl plugs in a brick wall
Shelves. Pine, 20mm thick boards, 130mm deep. I could probably weigh it. Will be used for glass jars filled with dry goods.
Is it going to collapse? Should I add more batons underneath one of the lower shelves?
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