Shelves
Fuck shelves. Sincerely. They're great and all, quite handy for putting stuff on, I'll admit. But putting the bastards up? WARNING : FAIL PROXIMITY.

You're probably reading this and thinking "you soft tit, it's not that hard" and you'd be absolutely right - it isn't. If you live in a house that was built in the last 50 years that is.

Victorian / Edwardian tenement flats (much like you'll find throughout the central belt in Scotland) really don't take kindly to having holes drilled in their walls. Horse-hair, lathe, asbestos, dung, newspaper and christ alone knows what else came pouring out of every hole I tried to put in. Even with reee-diculous rawlplugs (M8 bolt fixings ftr) the fuckers would just tear up more wall and fall out like I'd tried to knob the top of a welly boot.

90 quid on shelves & a day spent drilling holes and cursing like a docker ("you c*nting f*cktard" is now in my profanisaurus), and all I have to show for it are three piss-poor bathroom shelves which can barely hold a tin of deodorant without acting like a prop from a B-grade disaster film and a cupboard full of Nordic timber and failed dreams.

Fuck Shelves, and Fuck IKEA.
(mymilkshakebringsallthemongstotheyard poison hearts, poison minds - joining hate, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 22:57, 7 replies)

Awwww
I found when faced with a similar dilemma, vast quantities of superglue mixed with sawdust poured into the holes then ramming the screws in seemed to work.
Still got a shelf up after 6 yrs.
I pity the next tenant who tries to remove it and pulls the entire wall down
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 23:14, closed)

a bit late but
have you thought of trying some free standing shelves?

No ideal if the bathroom in question is on the smaller side.

StyX
(StyX is staring at you, yes YOU!!!, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 23:23, closed)

Subsidence
and sloping floors roundly shaft me in that respect. Thank christ I rent.
(mymilkshakebringsallthemongstotheyard poison hearts, poison minds - joining hate, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 0:47, closed)

Lol
How about 4 legged and adjustable?

I know this like closing the barn after the horses have fucked off, but i like a challenge.....
(StyX is staring at you, yes YOU!!!, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 3:07, closed)

I have to 5 minute rule when it comes to shelves/general DIY...
If it stays up for 5 minutes - it'll be there for life...

Those 5 minutes are a stressful time though.

Have a click.
( snee held his breath since, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 9:10, closed)

Bricks and Planks are your friends...
Call it pragmatism. I do...
(caescarna Hell's Roomba, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 10:27, closed)

Shelves......
Why do you need to store crap on the walls, use a drawer like any one else. have a click
(TwinkleFuckingToes Has a ingrown toe nail, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 11:02, closed)