This will help clean up and smooth out those edges. back to side, side to front, front to rung side. It's the the largest side that people in your house will always look at, so make it count!įinally, sand all the cornering that leads to each face. Now do the front of the ladder and make sure this is the cleanest and most even sanding job you've ever done. So any shorter people or people sitting below it see its best side :) So then, consider that the "best" looking side should face downwards when you hang it. Once you've done both of them, you can judge which side actually looks better and cleaner. Then, turn the ladder on its sides and do both the sides. You don't need to do an awesome job cleaning it up, but just do enough to clean off the debris so you're not bringing all this extra dust into your house.
It just need to be practical, clean and smooth enough that no one gets a splinter.įirstly, start on the back of the ladder. Its course enough to pull off stuff and in the end you don't need to have a super smooth ladder shelf in your house. That said I got a pair of belts for I think $3.pretty cheap! Overall, I went through 6 belts cleaning up this ladder.
The wax kind of mixed with the debris and totally clogged up the belt sander and even "belt cleaning tools" couldn't clean up the belts. Serious, this ladder was covered in a wax coating and it took about 6 weekends on and off to sand it back and clean it up. A hammer drill: If you have brick walls. A hard set 45 degree protractor, or/and a combination square. A high pressure hose (Not needed if you don't have one). As many bolts, nuts and washers you'll need to secure the brackets to the ladder. I also alternated the top and the bottom brackets. Dynabolts: Is there anything stronger? I personally bought enough brackets to attach one to every second space and I started 1 rung in. Long brackets painted the same color as your wall: This should give enough space to properly balance some books and board games, or any other heavy objects you might want to put up. Short brackets painted the same color as your wall: This should give enough space that the ladder comes out from the wall, but alcohol bottles won't fall between the wall and the ladder. A long ladder: I reckon 5-7m if you can acquire it. Also, if you can't be bothered walking it, you could probably bring a circular saw and cut it to the length you require it before transport. But you should be able to find one on craigslist or eBay pretty easily in your local area. You should easily be able to find old wooden ladders on the cheap. So this 6.6m turned into ~2.3m and a ~4.2m after the cuts. The ladder was also so long I couldn't transport it on my car roof, so myself, my partner and two mates walked both pieces a good 2km to my parents place so that I could work on it, as they have way more space than I have.Īlso, because I'm going to split my ladder, I didn't want to make an even piece of art. This ladder was so old that it had a six digit local phone number on it (now 8 digits in Australia) and had around half a millimetre of debris on it as for a number of years it had been sitting outside the guys place of who I bought it off. So fortunately for my parents they have inherited the secondary piece, which mum is still deliberating on some plans for it. The secondary piece wasn't wide enough to fit bottles in it and in any case I only needed the one piece, and one that would hold more stuff on it. The ladder I bought was 6.6m long and had another piece that was also 6.6m long. Depth thick enough to hold some bottles of spirits, but also enough space on the back to hold books and board games. My living room is 3.5m by 5.7m, so something that could wrap around both walls, while leaving about 1.5m - 2m white space on both the end sides. I thought, if you're going to put a ladder on the wall, it may as well be a big a one as you can get (within reason?), and many DIY ladders either bolted theirs directly to the wall, to a plate and the plate onto the wall or didn't "hide the brackets" The few images searches I feel don't really utilize the potential show stopper piece that this type of project could be in a room.
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It did give me a few ideas about how to go around this project. I thought to myself, what a cool idea that is.but it needs to be bigger! and now that I own my own place, I can put my own one in :) After numerous google searches and a multitude of image searches, of which there are many pictures, but no real instructions. I came about this idea after seeing a photo on my Facebook news feed with a small ladder mounted on a wall.
It's been a while, but I'm back with another instructable! This time with a practical wall mounted ladder!
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