Rain Gutter Bookshelf Tutorial

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Rain gutter bookshelf tutorial.

A lot of people prefer to go for the straight plain white finish the vinyl gutters come with. My husband was leaning toward getting an aluminum gutter but i decided against it because the cost was more. Wall studs are typically 16. Optional materials end caps.

How to install rain gutter bookshelves step 2. It was only 4 98. Sand all the edges wipe the gutters down to make sure all the dust is gone use primer and paint to paint the rain gutters once the rain gutters are dry mark where you. Find the studs in the wall using the stud finder and mark them with a pencil.

End caps for the rain gutters. Be sure to. Vinyl rain gutters our rain gutter shelves are all 5 feet or 2 1 2 feet long and the gutters come in 10 foot lengths. The first thing we did was go to home depot and purchase a 10 foot run of vinyl gutter.

If you want the gutter bookshelves to look nicer you can grab some end caps to put onto the ends of the. In this diy i m demonstrating how i decorated my daughter s room with simple 5 plastic rain gutters and created them into book shelves. There is still some space to the left of this display and i am looking for the perfect bookshelf to fit the space. Brackets for the rain gutters i used either 2 or 3 brackets per 5 feet of shelving depending on how much use i thought.

Step 4. Use a level mounted on a straight edge while you mark the locations for the hangars.