Best way to support a floating desk?
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Posted Mar 1, 2020, 9:57 PM UTC
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Speaking from a practical standpoint, the only way to have it hold the weight of a child is to have either a counterweight, fixture or mix thereof on the other side of the wall, that give an equal pull.
Oh, and don't forget the support legs next to the wall. Drywall has barely any structural integrity.
Whatever you do, you're probably going to be placing supports on the other side of the wall if you don't want supports on this side.
While the brackets you're showing are good, i can say from experience that expecting them to hold the weight of even just a child could make them deform, depending on the thickness of the metal.
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Good to know, thanks. I was hoping they'd be a safe bet to blindly order online, but I'll see if I can go explore some options in a store.
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if you do use those brackets remember to use long screws centered on the spars.
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Those brackets will be just fine. With that screwed to a stud, you could easily support 150 pounds on one of those.
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I would say those brackets are your best option. The threaded rod brackets don’t have enough strength to keep your desk level with any real weight on it.
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I'm short a couple of tools to ensure I get good holes drilled for the threaded rods too, so the ease of installation with the brackets is looking like a big plus since the backside of that wall is already exposed. Thanks for the help!
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If you can secure to the left hand wall and can move your shelf all the way to the right and make it taller, you will bring in a lot more integrity. Maybe make the shelf a set of 2 or 3 so that you have a 'box' on the right hand side. That will brace it a lot more. Then you just need brackets to support weight in the middle.
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Might be too late but I’ve used these to support my floating desk.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Everbilt-18-in-x-16-in-White-Heavy-Duty-Shelf-Bracket-14835/202824731
It’s in 2 30inch by 5 ft sections and I use 2 brackets on each section
Run 2 ledger boards across the wall into as many studs as you can, using nice long lag bolts, then mount the desk onto the boards using the ledgers as a guide for support and to get it level. We have butchers block countertop as the desk top material so there is 200 lbs of weight on the desk unloaded.
Here is a pic:
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Seriously why not just have legs?
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Legs would be fine on the one side that touches a wall, but due to the space available and the layout of the room, a leg on the other side would definitely get in the way.
Normally I would absolutely just put legs on it, but we're converting the current office into a toddlers room, so space is getting quite limited.
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Ah, sorry I'm grumpy today. Maybe something like this would be a good idea https://www.amazon.com/Brackets-Floating-Shelves-Triangle-OVOV/dp/B07BR9DBZK
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No worries, it was a perfectly valid question and I didn't really explain the reason for this circumstance in the OP.
I am getting pretty tempted to scrap some of the invisibility of the brackets and go with some triangle ones like you mentioned. Turns out floating shelves get pretty complicated when they get decently large haha.
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Yeah, floating is cool for shelves but for structure and kids it seems not so great
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The best way to support the load is using threaded metal rods. They must go into the 2x4's. YouTube has some videos on how to do it.
Search "threaded rod floating shelf" what you are doing is basically a floating shelf.just used as a desk
Oh awesome, I came across a ton of similar setups with straight rods, but those ones were done more superficial to the wall and didn't seem suitable for depths > 8" or so. This looks promising, I'll do some reading. Thanks!