Tool room shelf n Chair project

[OldSchool]

Ah, I see, chair hooks.

By the title I thought you were going to refinish or restore a chair.

 

[Peanut]

First fitting of a chair hanger…

It’s going to be tricky over the old piano. The drop ceiling is at 92”. I need to put the top edge of the 1x6 at 91”. This will give me chair leg clearance just above the top of the piano. I have plenty of room for the other two hangers, a 2 or 3” gap is fine.

I was thinking I needed help fitting the boards, someone to hold the other end of an 8ft board while I marked where I wanted screw holes. Then I remembered, I have some 1x4’s 96” long (8ft). The ceiling is at 92” so minus 4”… minus a 2” gap at the top, minus 6” of the 1x6… I cut 1ft off the end of the 1x4. Then screwed the piece of scrap to the 1x4. I used a long clamp to hold it to the cinderblock wall. Now I have some “thing” to hold the other end of a chair hanger while I mark screw positions.

 

[Peanut]

4 chairs and a cooler off the floor! Approx. 14sq ft. of new space I can use for things like walking. Now I have 5 more chairs and 2 coolers to hang.

 

[Peanut]

What a pitb this was! It took 2.5hrs to install this little light fixture, below. Calibrating a catscan is simpler and quicker!!! I had to stand sideways on a step ladder and contort my body in ways Harry Houdini never dreamed of!!! My back is killing me now!

There were no instructions and all the necessary hardware wasn’t included. Installing it with the supplied hardware didn’t work. I had to come up with a new way and supply my own hardware.

I’ve debated installing it for a month now. It’s just to better illuminate this last section of steps. I decided to install it because I’m going to install a board/hooks to hang chairs in that room. That would make wiring this light more difficult, better to put the light in now. I bought the darned thing, might as well use it.

Anyway… the light fixture is mounted, wiring is ready to hook up tomorrow.

 

[Peanut]

Got the light wired this morning. Before and after pics. Much better than I thought it'd be. I can see fine either way but dad can't so this light over the lower stairs was for him.

 

[Peanut]

Prepositioned the next chair hanger. There'll be fewer tapcon screw holding this one than the last one. This hanger will have the ladder back chairs which are much lighter than the table chairs. Almost 6lbs per chair lighter, about 30lbs less weight. So fewer screws won't be an issue.

Still need to get it marked up, drilled and counter sunk... then mounted, maybe tomorrow.