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Originally Posted by Betty
Knowing that you have a 67% increase in closet space is a little bit dorky ya know.  |
Seeing as I measured and remeasured and remeasured countless times, I can hardly help but know that.
The dorky part is that I could have looked at it before and after and given that 67% figure correctly WITHOUT measuring.
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Originally Posted by Stan4dSteph
Any chance of sharing photos? I would love to see how you configured it!
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Once it's painted I'm going to take pictures. But I can describe the change pretty succinctly.
Before:
A single 9 1/2` shelf at a height of ~70" and a single 9 1/2' bar just beneath it. All supported by 2 supports*.
After:
Essentially raised that 9 1/2' span up so that the hanging bar is at 80". Instead of a single 9 1/2' length of shelf/bar, it's now 3 separate pieces of shelving, 2 separate bars, supported by 7 angle brackets attached to studs.
Then at a height of 40", there's a 38" hanging bar w/shelf on either side of the closet, leaving a 38" space in the middle so we can hang long items from the top bar. So it now looks something like this (not to scale):
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---------------------------- 40"
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Nothing fancy, but way better than one collapsing shelf.
*If you can call what was there "support". Whereas an intelligent person would use a shelf support that looks like this:
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Whomever put that shelf up used supports that were JUST the angle part:
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Gee, I wonder why the shelf was sagging.