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Brommers
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I have a couple of Ikea Benno CD towers that I want to mount on the wall horizontally as shelves. The sides of the tower which will become the shelves are birch-faced chipboard and fixed at 3 points (top, bottom, middle fixed shelf).
I was thinking to simply rest it on some twin slot brackets (some more shelving is going above and could extend the uprights down), but given it feels fairly study I'm now thinking of using French cleats to fix directly to the wall, it'll look cleaner. The sides/shelves protrude slightly past the backing board which gives enough room to hide the cleat.
My concern is that the 'upper' shelf will be supported and the 'lower' shelf will be hanging from these 3 points. Anyone done something similar? It's CDs going back in so not massively heavy. Wondering if it's worth screwing in a few more of the loose shelves (the little square ones) to act as dividers and more contact points, but not sure if regular screws will do much in chipboard or just pull out. The ones Ikea use have that massive thread on them.