Hello, am new here, my name is Olalekan Ibrahim, a nice dude and friendly, am technology geek and i blog on Olagist . and If you need anything, am here and ready to help, thanks alot
Well, hi there. I've a big list of things I need to do today, one of them is figuring out a way to hang a 2'x4' pegboard on my bedroom wall with the least amount of holes in the wall, but sturdy enough to hold the weight of many, many heavy leather & metal ladies belts. Have at it!
@LaVikinga Why are you hanging them on a pegboard? You know they'll get dust on them, right? I used to keep such things in a dresser drawer, back when I was fashionable. Pegboard in a bedroom: it just seems so inelegant. (Shrdlu curtseys. You're welcome. :-})
On the other hand, don't forget to use those fancy anchor bolts in the walls. Pity my handyman is retired, and not available even to ask questions of. He'd have had the perfect answer. Personally, I don't think you can do it in less than eight holes. Pegboard is heavy. Four on top, four on the bottom, seems like it's best. Do you already have the pegboard and hooks? Are you planning on painting the pegboard a nice color? I think I've seen those pegboard hooks in colors.
@LaVikinga I'm assuming you're mounting it landscape, 4' wide and 2' tall, as that seems the best way to hold many many belts.
I'd mount it to the studs. On 16" centers you should be able to involve 4 studs. What you'll want so the pegs have room to clear the back is some space behind the board. To get spacer wood that will still be thin and sleek, I'd get furring strips (the stuff they use to nail carpet down to). They're usually 8' long strips, about 1" wide and less than 1/4" thick.
I'd use a stud sensor to find your studs and mark out where you want the pegboard. If your desired placement doesn't line up with 4 studs, you can use 3 and cut the furring strips an inch or so short so they don't show at the ends. I would tape up the furring strips across the studs, lining up for level, and drill small pilot holes through the strips and the studs. Then I'd glue the strips to the back of the pegboard with something like gorilla glue, lining them up in between rows of holes near the top and bottom. Once the glue dried, I'd masking tape over the front side over where the pilot holes are, set it face down on a sacrificial piece of wood, and drill the pilot holes through the pegboard as well. The sacrificial block should keep the face of the pegboard from blowing out.
Then I'd mount the whole thing to the wall using 3 1/2" screws or longer. I'd probably use drywall screws for the black heads and the way they will screw in flush, but use screws designed to screw into wood and you'll be a-ok. The wood glued to the whole board would also spread the weight across a large area to make it as strong as possible so you don't blow out single screw holes in your pegboard.
Note that I'm not any kind of professional. That's just how I'd do it if it were my project to figure out.
You might also need additional spacer strips glued to the back to help bear the weight and keep the pegboard from bowing. I'd run some vertically every foot or so between two rows of holes, from the top spacer to the bottom. Shouldn't need to screw any of that to the wall, though.
You may be able to get by with only screwing the top rail to the wall if you are absolutely concerned with minimizing the number of holes in the wall.
@f00l They're in an enormous pile on the bedroom floor. They were in a laundry basket, but I tipped it over while raging around my room trying to pack for a trip last week. Told them they were on their own, just the leather belts against the two evil leather-loving cats who live in my house.
@djslack , @shrdlu, because of extremely limited wall space, the board will be portrait rather than landscape, painted to match the walls and covered by repurposed tatami mat to keep the dust off. Shrdlu, I am a clothes horse with a packed walk in (kicked the mister's stuff to the guest room closet), two tall chest of drawers and one long double dresser, AND a 4 foot wide stand alone rack I cycle stuff on. I'm thinking about using it to hold formals & cocktail dresses I want to/should keep. I own too many belts to shove in a drawer. Many of them need to be hung because of complicated stone/metal/beadwork, or I don't want the wider leather ones to be creased. I've found several smaller scale hooks similar to how one would hang a bicycle on the wall that will be great to hang multiple large buckle belts. The Mister advised the same thing about finding the studs and that I'd be sorry if I ignored the advice. He also said something about using bolts. Honestly, I don't remember what they're really called because we've called them "Gee, Wally" bolts for so many years (big fans of Leave It To Beaver in this house). Molly bolts? The reason I'm using pegboard is because it's easier to move the hooks around as my needs, and belts, fit. You guys are fabulous to give me such solid advice! And thank you @Thumperchick for not tazing the original question!
@LaVikinga@Shrdlu@djslack@Thumperchick I don't really have any advice, but I love what happened here! Also, as a person with no closets and many clothes, I like hearing creative approaches to bedroom storage…
@brhfl I am out of real estate in our bedroom. This thing is going to be tucked on a wall and hidden by the bedroom door when it's opened. We need a bigger house, because I'm not getting rid of my stuff. Deprived childhood--at least that's what I tell my dad when he teases me about being a fashionista with too many shoes and too much stuff. Too many shoes! Have you ever heard such nonsense!?
@LaVikinga It is not possible to have too many shoes. It's barely conceivable that there are enough shoes. I have the advantage of you in that I have a four bedroom house (and its attendant closets, and a hall closet). I actually use one of those closets as storage space for my canning equipment (and empty jars take a LOT of space too). The hall closet is for sweaters and winter coats (and boots). I have a mere five dressers, but in my defense, only two of them are used for clothes. The others are used for material and sewing items...okay, and a drawer or so for shawls.
I have perhaps 1/3 or less of the clothes that I did while I still worked, though.
I'm glad to hear there's a plan to help with the dust. Yeah, studded and other styles of leather belts are heavy, and creases in leather are forever. If you're going to hang it portrait style, you probably need six or seven anchor bolts (depending on how much weight you think will be hanging off it). I have a lot of very heavy equipment hanging on my pegboard in the garage; it's all bolted into wood, though, so be careful to find at least one stud for your anchor bolts.
Too bad I'm not closer; I love being in the middle of other people's projects. I find myself to be very amusing. Truly. ;-}
@Shrdlu I hear you on the canning jars. I fell in love with some Italian canning jars that I hoard. The kitchen remodel we did two years ago doubled my storage space. I managed to fill it up without any effort at all. I think I'm going to let him hang the board so he can go all "more power."
@LaVikinga When I mounted a pegboard to my son's wall, I created a frame for the pegboard using a 2"x2" and a router. I managed to do so without excessive bloodshed, IMO, which is nice.
Basically, it's a picture frame-looking thing, with a 1/4" groove cut into the interior circumference of the frame, for the pegboard to sit in. The groove created a 3/4" or so stand-off from the wall for the pegs to do their thing. Think of a cabinet door front that was built by a 2 year old. (OK, I did a MUCH better job on it than a 2 year old could do.)
@G1 I thought about trimming it out in a similar fashion by using the edging one can buy to trim lattice fencing, but just haven't felt that industrious. The belts are STILL in a pile on the floor. Too many tiny distractions lately to commit myself to getting the darned thing done. I put it off again today because I just knew if I dragged out the power tools, something would go kablooey--mainly because I am having dinner tonight for the first time with the CEO of the company for which my husband works. (I've seen her photograph. She's a stunner and I didn't want to roll in looking like Les Nessman).
@Thumperchick Please do not use your mighty powers of destruction to delete the question, though, because there are all those ever so helpful answers for our favorite delicate flower, @LaVikinga.
Truthfully, it never occurred to me to look at the "blog" (the introductory paragraph told me I didn't want to). Thanks for being brave for the rest of us. ;-}
@Shrdlu Now that I'm not on my phone, I can explain further. (Not that it's needed, but I think you'll dig it.) The reasoning behind removing spammy threads is that they add nothing to the community discussion as a whole and, in most cases, detract from it. In this instance, because @LaVikinga sassily asked a genuine question, she saved this thread and made it add to the community discussion. Since the OP was genuine in their associate to the site they linked, there's no need to edit for clarity, or shame them for being sneaky. The link isn't harmful (as of right now*) so I didn't have to nuke it.
@Collin1000 I saw enough at the first headline: "5 Ways To Become More Mesirable To Your Husband". I don't know if it is a shoutout to Meh, a wish to become miserable, or just a mark of how low @lekssyb sets the bar for content & quality on this "blog". No matter what, it is quite meh.
@djslack I made my husband quite mesirable this morning. I decided to pull up the big paving stones that make up our front walk to remove the tree roots which had pushed the stones all wonky. It was either pull them up or face a possible lawsuit when a trick-or-treater face-planted tonight. Only took seeing me swing the axe (rather adeptly, I might add) before he manly-manned himself into the job. He was hating life and pitching a bitchfit before he was done. Had no sympathy for him. I LOVE yard work. Himself? Not so much.
@Lekssyb The others have answered that for me. I will give you a friendly head's up on something, though. While this one post survived, your spammy comments in other threads have been removed. Please do not use our community to spam for your site. Instead, you are welcome to participate! Talk with us, joke with us, let us get to know you and sometimes, that will translate into traffic to your site. Probably not much - but much more than spammy comments ever will.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to @ me.
@Thumperchick Glide, darling. You glide. Keep telling yourself that. Like a soft summer breeze. You're gliding from your core. Your poor, stuffed with baby, dear-god-I-can't-breathe-anymore, does-anyone-want-that-last-doughnut core.
Thanks a lot @Everybody and @Thumperchick thanks a lot, some people call my blog a click bait but actually, there is nothing i can write on that has not been already written by someone else, i just need to research and rewrite, and i stated it in my privacy and policy page.
@Thumperchick I am naive, when it comes to lots of internet stuff. I went to this guys link, it just look like a bunch of ads and such. If you would, please explain what click bait means? Don't know what a 419 is either? Thank you.
(on the Internet) content, especially that of a sensational or provocative nature, whose main purpose is to attract attention and draw visitors to a particular web page. "these recent reports of the show's imminent demise are hyperbolic clickbait"
Usually done for profit (pay per impression ads generally are found on pages visitors load by falling for clickbait).
Thanks Olala! I actually do need something, so your post is very timely! Due to factors beyond my control (ie. booze) I have been spending more money on meh.com than I probably should and could use more money. Please send $1000 to the meh home office where they will hold it for me as credit (minus a small home office party fee). Please do this ASAP, as I expect to buy more stuff.
Well, hi there.
I've a big list of things I need to do today, one of them is figuring out a way to hang a 2'x4' pegboard on my bedroom wall with the least amount of holes in the wall, but sturdy enough to hold the weight of many, many heavy leather & metal ladies belts.
Have at it!
@LaVikinga
ok now i am wishing for a pic of the many ladies belts.
@LaVikinga Why are you hanging them on a pegboard? You know they'll get dust on them, right? I used to keep such things in a dresser drawer, back when I was fashionable. Pegboard in a bedroom: it just seems so inelegant. (Shrdlu curtseys. You're welcome. :-})
On the other hand, don't forget to use those fancy anchor bolts in the walls. Pity my handyman is retired, and not available even to ask questions of. He'd have had the perfect answer. Personally, I don't think you can do it in less than eight holes. Pegboard is heavy. Four on top, four on the bottom, seems like it's best. Do you already have the pegboard and hooks? Are you planning on painting the pegboard a nice color? I think I've seen those pegboard hooks in colors.
@LaVikinga I'm assuming you're mounting it landscape, 4' wide and 2' tall, as that seems the best way to hold many many belts.
I'd mount it to the studs. On 16" centers you should be able to involve 4 studs. What you'll want so the pegs have room to clear the back is some space behind the board. To get spacer wood that will still be thin and sleek, I'd get furring strips (the stuff they use to nail carpet down to). They're usually 8' long strips, about 1" wide and less than 1/4" thick.
I'd use a stud sensor to find your studs and mark out where you want the pegboard. If your desired placement doesn't line up with 4 studs, you can use 3 and cut the furring strips an inch or so short so they don't show at the ends. I would tape up the furring strips across the studs, lining up for level, and drill small pilot holes through the strips and the studs. Then I'd glue the strips to the back of the pegboard with something like gorilla glue, lining them up in between rows of holes near the top and bottom. Once the glue dried, I'd masking tape over the front side over where the pilot holes are, set it face down on a sacrificial piece of wood, and drill the pilot holes through the pegboard as well. The sacrificial block should keep the face of the pegboard from blowing out.
Then I'd mount the whole thing to the wall using 3 1/2" screws or longer. I'd probably use drywall screws for the black heads and the way they will screw in flush, but use screws designed to screw into wood and you'll be a-ok. The wood glued to the whole board would also spread the weight across a large area to make it as strong as possible so you don't blow out single screw holes in your pegboard.
Note that I'm not any kind of professional. That's just how I'd do it if it were my project to figure out.
Oh, and welcome, @lekssyb!
You might also need additional spacer strips glued to the back to help bear the weight and keep the pegboard from bowing. I'd run some vertically every foot or so between two rows of holes, from the top spacer to the bottom. Shouldn't need to screw any of that to the wall, though.
You may be able to get by with only screwing the top rail to the wall if you are absolutely concerned with minimizing the number of holes in the wall.
@LaVikinga command strips or mounting putty will help support the weight, and screw into the studs.
@f00l They're in an enormous pile on the bedroom floor. They were in a laundry basket, but I tipped it over while raging around my room trying to pack for a trip last week. Told them they were on their own, just the leather belts against the two evil leather-loving cats who live in my house.
@djslack , @shrdlu, because of extremely limited wall space, the board will be portrait rather than landscape, painted to match the walls and covered by repurposed tatami mat to keep the dust off. Shrdlu, I am a clothes horse with a packed walk in (kicked the mister's stuff to the guest room closet), two tall chest of drawers and one long double dresser, AND a 4 foot wide stand alone rack I cycle stuff on. I'm thinking about using it to hold formals & cocktail dresses I want to/should keep. I own too many belts to shove in a drawer. Many of them need to be hung because of complicated stone/metal/beadwork, or I don't want the wider leather ones to be creased.
I've found several smaller scale hooks similar to how one would hang a bicycle on the wall that will be great to hang multiple large buckle belts.
The Mister advised the same thing about finding the studs and that I'd be sorry if I ignored the advice. He also said something about using bolts. Honestly, I don't remember what they're really called because we've called them "Gee, Wally" bolts for so many years (big fans of Leave It To Beaver in this house). Molly bolts?
The reason I'm using pegboard is because it's easier to move the hooks around as my needs, and belts, fit.
You guys are fabulous to give me such solid advice!
And thank you @Thumperchick for not tazing the original question!
@LaVikinga @Shrdlu @djslack @Thumperchick I don't really have any advice, but I love what happened here! Also, as a person with no closets and many clothes, I like hearing creative approaches to bedroom storage…
@brhfl I am out of real estate in our bedroom. This thing is going to be tucked on a wall and hidden by the bedroom door when it's opened. We need a bigger house, because I'm not getting rid of my stuff. Deprived childhood--at least that's what I tell my dad when he teases me about being a fashionista with too many shoes and too much stuff. Too many shoes! Have you ever heard such nonsense!?
@LaVikinga
then a pic of the writhing pile of lethally venomous ladies belts lying in wait for prey would be cool, if you have the energy.
(And from my "Ask Imelda" persona):
"How is it possible to own too many pairs of shoes? Not in this universe!"
@LaVikinga It is not possible to have too many shoes. It's barely conceivable that there are enough shoes. I have the advantage of you in that I have a four bedroom house (and its attendant closets, and a hall closet). I actually use one of those closets as storage space for my canning equipment (and empty jars take a LOT of space too). The hall closet is for sweaters and winter coats (and boots). I have a mere five dressers, but in my defense, only two of them are used for clothes. The others are used for material and sewing items...okay, and a drawer or so for shawls.
I have perhaps 1/3 or less of the clothes that I did while I still worked, though.
I'm glad to hear there's a plan to help with the dust. Yeah, studded and other styles of leather belts are heavy, and creases in leather are forever. If you're going to hang it portrait style, you probably need six or seven anchor bolts (depending on how much weight you think will be hanging off it). I have a lot of very heavy equipment hanging on my pegboard in the garage; it's all bolted into wood, though, so be careful to find at least one stud for your anchor bolts.
Too bad I'm not closer; I love being in the middle of other people's projects. I find myself to be very amusing. Truly. ;-}
@Shrdlu I hear you on the canning jars. I fell in love with some Italian canning jars that I hoard. The kitchen remodel we did two years ago doubled my storage space. I managed to fill it up without any effort at all.
I think I'm going to let him hang the board so he can go all "more power."
@LaVikinga When I mounted a pegboard to my son's wall, I created a frame for the pegboard using a 2"x2" and a router. I managed to do so without excessive bloodshed, IMO, which is nice.
Basically, it's a picture frame-looking thing, with a 1/4" groove cut into the interior circumference of the frame, for the pegboard to sit in. The groove created a 3/4" or so stand-off from the wall for the pegs to do their thing. Think of a cabinet door front that was built by a 2 year old. (OK, I did a MUCH better job on it than a 2 year old could do.)
@G1 I thought about trimming it out in a similar fashion by using the edging one can buy to trim lattice fencing, but just haven't felt that industrious.
The belts are STILL in a pile on the floor. Too many tiny distractions lately to commit myself to getting the darned thing done. I put it off again today because I just knew if I dragged out the power tools, something would go kablooey--mainly because I am having dinner tonight for the first time with the CEO of the company for which my husband works. (I've seen her photograph. She's a stunner and I didn't want to roll in looking like Les Nessman).
Hi there @Lekssyb - Question for you... can you really call a click-bait reposting site a blog?
@Thumperchick Please do not use your mighty powers of destruction to delete the question, though, because there are all those ever so helpful answers for our favorite delicate flower, @LaVikinga.
Truthfully, it never occurred to me to look at the "blog" (the introductory paragraph told me I didn't want to). Thanks for being brave for the rest of us. ;-}
@Shrdlu that's why I didn't!
@Shrdlu Now that I'm not on my phone, I can explain further. (Not that it's needed, but I think you'll dig it.)
The reasoning behind removing spammy threads is that they add nothing to the community discussion as a whole and, in most cases, detract from it. In this instance, because @LaVikinga sassily asked a genuine question, she saved this thread and made it add to the community discussion.
Since the OP was genuine in their associate to the site they linked, there's no need to edit for clarity, or shame them for being sneaky. The link isn't harmful (as of right now*) so I didn't have to nuke it.
TL:DR - Viva @LaVikinga!
@Thumperchick Viva sassy!
@Thumperchick
What do you mean?
@Lekssyb Well nothing on your "blog" is actually yours.... it's all clickbait that's been stolen from other websites.
@Collin1000 I saw enough at the first headline: "5 Ways To Become More Mesirable To Your Husband". I don't know if it is a shoutout to Meh, a wish to become miserable, or just a mark of how low @lekssyb sets the bar for content & quality on this "blog". No matter what, it is quite meh.
@djslack I made my husband quite mesirable this morning. I decided to pull up the big paving stones that make up our front walk to remove the tree roots which had pushed the stones all wonky. It was either pull them up or face a possible lawsuit when a trick-or-treater face-planted tonight.
Only took seeing me swing the axe (rather adeptly, I might add) before he manly-manned himself into the job. He was hating life and pitching a bitchfit before he was done. Had no sympathy for him. I LOVE yard work. Himself? Not so much.
@Lekssyb The others have answered that for me. I will give you a friendly head's up on something, though.
While this one post survived, your spammy comments in other threads have been removed. Please do not use our community to spam for your site. Instead, you are welcome to participate! Talk with us, joke with us, let us get to know you and sometimes, that will translate into traffic to your site. Probably not much - but much more than spammy comments ever will.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to @ me.
What is the worlds fastest land animal?
@thismyusername Me, if you take my chocolate. I waddle fast for a pregnant lady.
@Thumperchick Glide, darling. You glide. Keep telling yourself that. Like a soft summer breeze. You're gliding from your core. Your poor, stuffed with baby, dear-god-I-can't-breathe-anymore, does-anyone-want-that-last-doughnut core.
Thanks a lot @Everybody and @Thumperchick thanks a lot, some people call my blog a click bait but actually, there is nothing i can write on that has not been already written by someone else, i just need to research and rewrite, and i stated it in my privacy and policy page.
@Lekssyb
But yet, you just wrote this (above) which had not yet been written by someone else.
BTW, Olalekan Ibrahim happens to be the name of a Nigerian soccer (no fucking way I'll call that shit football) player.
I can only imagine a 419 scam is next.
@tHumperChick - I feel your pain.
@Pavlov Sing it with me! Some day my Nigerian Prince will come...
@LaVikinga but he needs $5000 for tickets, can you help him out?
@thismyusername
He thought he would just come along and post to meh, but he never saw THIS coming! Click here to see what happened next!
@jaremelz You WON'T BELIEVE what happens when you use this one simple trick to alienate potential readers!
@Thumperchick Try this simple trick in mehd to drive them wild with mild annoyance.
@Thumperchick I am naive, when it comes to lots of internet stuff. I went to this guys link, it just look like a bunch of ads and such. If you would, please explain what click bait means? Don't know what a 419 is either? Thank you.
@mick - From Google:
Clickbait:
(on the Internet) content, especially that of a sensational or provocative nature, whose main purpose is to attract attention and draw visitors to a particular web page.
"these recent reports of the show's imminent demise are hyperbolic clickbait"
Usually done for profit (pay per impression ads generally are found on pages visitors load by falling for clickbait).
419 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced-fee_scam
The number "419" refers to the section of the Nigerian Criminal Code dealing with fraud.
@mick ^What @Pavlov said.
@Pavlov That was the first Olalekan Ibraham that I found too. There seem to be many https://ng.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Olalekan/Ibrahim
@Pavlov Thanks!
@connorbush Must be Nigerian for Ponzi.
(Yes, before you all give me shit, I'm aware that joke is in atrociously poor taste and abysmally ethnocentric.)
Thanks Olala! I actually do need something, so your post is very timely! Due to factors beyond my control (ie. booze) I have been spending more money on meh.com than I probably should and could use more money. Please send $1000 to the meh home office where they will hold it for me as credit (minus a small home office party fee). Please do this ASAP, as I expect to buy more stuff.
Thanks again for your timely offer of help!