The Anonymous Widower

A Shelf Above My Cooker

The two IKEA wall cabinets either side of my cooker hood have lights underneath. To connect the lights, I needed to run a cable across. So to solve two problems in one go, I decided that a shelf above the cooker between the units would work.

I could have used wood and painted it to match the black-brown colour of the units. but as the house has lots of exposed steel beams, I thought I’d experiment with a steel beam powder coated to patch the IKEA cabinets.

It was made for me by Anglia Fabrication and Design in Newmarket. It cost me about a hundred pounds and I could have had it in any RAL colour.

I think it works. As the pictures show, I don’t think, I’ve got the layout of the tools right yet.

My Hungarian handyman and myself mounted the steel beam on the wall using some impressive Rigifix dry wall fixings.

Rigifix Dry Wall Fixings

Note that we used a brass bolt with the fixing, which is rated at over a hundred kiolgrams.

The only problem was Jerry’s brickwork, which produced a wall as flat as the Pennines.

January 12, 2016 - Posted by AnonW | World | jer, My Kitchen