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I installed mine using a spirit level and a few beer coasters under each foot until it was level… with the intention of removing the coasters when everything was level and drilled and replacing with something else.
so far the coasters are still there
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I have an almost 2 degrees slope across the room, resulting in an almost 7cm height difference from one wall to the other in a room under 2m wide.
7cm in 2m... that's a crazy height difference, but when you stand back it looks straight (without the shelves) as everything was built by eye and everything also slopes accordingly.
It's only with shelves in there that it's obvious how sloped this part of the house is.
Velocio
My shelves aren't level.
I could place a tennis ball on one side and it would roll immediately and with speed. The floor is sloped so badly in this Victorian house that on a 60cm wide shelf the left hand side is 1-2 cm lower in height 🙄
So... adjust the feet or legs! Nope, String shelving doesn't have adjustable feet.
The answer then is a platform for the feet to stand on. The feet are 30mm wide, and it so happens that you can buy stainless steel washers that are precisely 30mm wide and that have a hole just fractionally larger than 8mm in the middle.
Those numbers are magic... because the washer is the width of the feet, and I can shove a standard bit of 8mm dowel in the middle to turn a stack of washers into a block platform.
This is my next minor thing to solve.
On the major thing to solve... the Humanscale Float desk from John Lewis has an issue, the brackets that hold the worktop were manufactured incorrectly and don't fit. So now I have to go through support to get new ones. What is annoying is that I could fix this myself by cutting the brackets a little but it would void warranty, etc.