How To Remove Wall Mounted Shelves

How to remove an existing wood shelf.

How to remove wall mounted shelves. Use a stud finder to determine the location of the wall studs. 2 tap up on the bottom of. You won t be able to cut completely through the shelf. Look on the bottom of the shelf and you will see same colored stickers covering the holes.

Screws could be on the top next to the wall also. Quick and easy method to remove floating shelves. Solid wood shelves sag less than plywood while melamine or laminate covered particleboard shelves are the most prone to sagging. Some of the brackets required a small screw when you installed them.

Turn on the saw and cut through the shelf from front to back as close to the center of the shelf as possible. Remove those screws and it will slide off. Use an electric drill with a driver bit to remove. Hold a reciprocating saw vertically with the blade centered on the front of the shelf.

The shelf will be secured with screws nails or adhesive. Tap the shelf with a hammer until both pieces fall down and remove them from the cabinet. If the shelf has a center stile cut on either side of the stile. Remove the shelf part from the brackets or strips of wood that it sets on.

Mark the desired height of the brackets on the wall then use a level or chalk line to make sure all the brackets are level and the same height.