Just a helpful hint to give to those who are building a new home, before the insulation and sheet rock goes in, go around every wall, in every room, including ceilings, and take videos. Save those for times like this. Believe me, it has come in handy more times than I can count. Do some verbal narratives too so you know what part of the house you’re shooting the video.
If you plan to do a lot of in between stud projects, you might want to consider buying a Walabot. It’s like a stud finder with x-ray eyes that works through your smart cell phone. Not only can it sense studs, but it can also tell you where you have electrical wire and pipes behind the wall. There is no need to damage your wall and risk costly repairs. Anyone who has repaired drywall will tell you that the paint never matches completely. Fresh drywall that is painted and walls that have several coats of paint have very different textures, that are difficult to match; they take a lot of time and energy. I was going to put an in-wall shelf above the toilet in my main bathroom. I used my Walabot and discovered that they had string the electrical wire for a receptacle in the adjoining room up high to avoid the plumbing. It saved me from having to repair my bathroom wall! They are not that expensive and they have versions for Android and Apple.
Do you have to go all the way to the base board ? What if you just cut out 4’ 3” from the top of the door? And then you would have a half cabinet, and not disturb the wire?
An interesting and simple system. I won’t get into the specifics on electrical code, because I don’t know the requirements in your area. Personally I would have taped the joints on exposed plasterboard first and put a wooden support above the system between the two sheets of plasterboard. You might also want to to cut away some more of the dado rail each side so you can add trim to finish it off nicely. Thanks for sharing the video. I’m going to make a series of videos of my bathroom renovation where I’ll be doing something similar. I’ll drop a link for you to critique. I’m always open to feedback 👍🏼
I didn't understand the thing about the pennies and quarters: you were using coins as shims? But the board is going to come in and out (for the hidden compartment). Won't the homeowner knock the quarters off when they move the shelf/board to reach the hidden compartment? Or was that just temporary? Can you cement coins down?
The quarters are only for leveling the board at the bottom. So when you attached the EZStudRack, the shelves will be level. The quarters also allow a gap between the EZStudRack and the bottom support so it easily slides out. The coins are removed after everything is installed. Thanks for the questions. I hope this helps!
Since this video is more of a product advertising, rather than a DIY educational video, I decided to look more closely at the actual product being sold. I like the idea of this product, but when I did the research, I found that the execution of it failed horribly; the product is very impractical because of the size and shelf spacing. There is some conflicting information in their advertising as well. The dimensions of 1 bracket are 12.69” tall and 3.5” wide. The spacing between the each shelf is essentially useless. Unless you are working with very very tiny / short items. You would likely only get 1 practical shelf per set of brackets. To give you a better idea, each bracket can hold 11 shelves. If you placed a shelf at the highest point and the lowest points on the bracket, you would have 9 shelf spaces or slots between those 2 shelves. I watched their promotional video very carefully to see the number of spaces needed for common household/garage items. I took screenshots from the video so I could count the spaces the shelf spaces more closely. Keep in mind that product packaging does change so the items might be larger or smaller now and could take up a different amount of space 🧐. From the video it appeared that a can of shaving gel used 8 slots (7 for the actual height of the product and 1 for the shelf it was sitting on. A can of Rustoleum spray paint also used 8 slots. A small bottle of Floetrol paint thinner was 12 slots. 1 for the shelf it was sitting on and 11 for the height of the bottle. Since a bracket only has 11 slots, this means that an entire bracket would be wasted. A regular bottle of Roundup with the attached sprayer, is another wasted bracket, as it needs 13 slots. Gamers will need 8 slots for Wii and PS4 type games. For people who are crafting enthusiasts, a small wooden stamp needs 3 slots. A bottle of Smirnoff Vodka would be another wasted bracket with 12 slots. Even a regular sized jar of peanut butter used nearly an entire bracket with 8 slots. And finally, even a package of Gold Fish crackers took 7 slots, which is over half the size of a bracket. From my point of view this product is impractical. The number of screw holes also seems odd. There are 11 screw holes per bracket, but you are only provided 4 screws per bracket. I figured this out because the Amazon advertisement page for the 32 bracket or 16 set item, indicates that you will be sent 128 screws. The Amazon advertisement STATES you can use up to a 1x10” wide board; however their promotional video and advertisement images indicate that the maximum width is a 1x8” board. Using a 1x8” would mean that there is 4.5” or over 1/2 of the board hanging outside the stud and bracket. Again, I liked the idea of this product, but I don’t like how it was manufactured. There is no point in having the shelves so close together, when the available space is useless. IMO at the current spacing, and the product height does not offer customers any value for their money. The brackets need to be taller, and have more spacing available between each shelf. Perhaps a variety of spacing with different sized brackets to give buyers more options for their needs. I would not recommend this product whatsoever. I also think the company needs to correct the errors to their advertising, because the conflicting information is misleading. Hope this helps others make a more informed decision on whether or not to purchase the EXStudRack
@@CanadaNurse thank you for your detailed review. I think you are missing the reason why I invented EZStudRack. Saves time, less stress and flexibility. It’s not about how many shelves this can fit, it’s about where to fit the shelf at the time you need it. Yes, go buy a $6 bracket and attach it to your wall, put a big bulky shelf and store whatever you want. When you run out of room, buy another $6 bracket and repeat. When you need something, you start digging, moving items and spend time looking, stressing and scratching your head trying to remember where that item is. EZStudRack puts everything ONE ROW DEEP on your wall. No more digging, no more stress finding it, no more WASTING TIME finding it. When you use it you only have one spot to put it back. It’s a SYSTEM to help you GET ORGANIZED and STAY ORGANIZED. Once it’s up, put a shallow shelf or a deep shelf, whatever you need at that particular time. Now if you are the organized type of person, then this is not for you. EZStudRack is for the person who is tired of clutter and needs a simple system to help declutter. Thanks again for your detailed review.👍🏽
I think the way you treated the romex is illegal. It looks exposed. I would not do that. I would have left the sheet rock in tact 4in above and below the wire. I would then added 2x4’s above and below the wire. Keeping the wiring blocked off and protected.
Holy crap. Don’t let this guy anywhere near your house. I assure you that running Romex (the electrical wires) between two removable shelves doesn’t meet ANY kind of code. Especially since he or the customer removed one of those shelves by the final shot showing it running loose, hanging in front of a cute statue and waiting to start a fire when somebody snags it and yanks the conductors out of the stair light switches that you could obviously see on the wall when he was saying it was all A-OK. 🙄 This was a kid’s room and he left electrical wires loose!
Thanks for the input. I will permanently put a board above and below with a front cover so exposed wires will be covered up. Again thanks for the input.
Just a helpful hint to give to those who are building a new home, before the insulation and sheet rock goes in, go around every wall, in every room, including ceilings, and take videos. Save those for times like this. Believe me, it has come in handy more times than I can count. Do some verbal narratives too so you know what part of the house you’re shooting the video.
Great tip! Thanks for sharing!
I love the music when you took that first look and saw the wiring! I'm definitely learning some tricks of the trade, thank you for the videos!
Great vid now I can see how do you detect stud in the wall
If you plan to do a lot of in between stud projects, you might want to consider buying a Walabot. It’s like a stud finder with x-ray eyes that works through your smart cell phone. Not only can it sense studs, but it can also tell you where you have electrical wire and pipes behind the wall. There is no need to damage your wall and risk costly repairs. Anyone who has repaired drywall will tell you that the paint never matches completely. Fresh drywall that is painted and walls that have several coats of paint have very different textures, that are difficult to match; they take a lot of time and energy. I was going to put an in-wall shelf above the toilet in my main bathroom. I used my Walabot and discovered that they had string the electrical wire for a receptacle in the adjoining room up high to avoid the plumbing. It saved me from having to repair my bathroom wall! They are not that expensive and they have versions for Android and Apple.
What about installing shelving with steel studs? How do you mount when the studs aren’t straight like 2x4s?
Hi Gerry, Can you email me some pictures? Eugenio@EZStudRack.com
On crooked studs, you mount the same way and custom fit each shelf.
❤️ Great video!!
Do you have to go all the way to the base board ? What if you just cut out 4’ 3” from the top of the door? And then you would have a half cabinet, and not disturb the wire?
Melody Davis looking back, that’s what I should have done...🤦🏽♂️
EZStudRack thank you, I’m just trying to understand.
An interesting and simple system. I won’t get into the specifics on electrical code, because I don’t know the requirements in your area. Personally I would have taped the joints on exposed plasterboard first and put a wooden support above the system between the two sheets of plasterboard. You might also want to to cut away some more of the dado rail each side so you can add trim to finish it off nicely. Thanks for sharing the video. I’m going to make a series of videos of my bathroom renovation where I’ll be doing something similar. I’ll drop a link for you to critique. I’m always open to feedback 👍🏼
Thanks Karl for the input. Would love to see what you come up with in your renovation.
I didn't understand the thing about the pennies and quarters: you were using coins as shims? But the board is going to come in and out (for the hidden compartment). Won't the homeowner knock the quarters off when they move the shelf/board to reach the hidden compartment? Or was that just temporary? Can you cement coins down?
The quarters are only for leveling the board at the bottom. So when you attached the EZStudRack, the shelves will be level. The quarters also allow a gap between the EZStudRack and the bottom support so it easily slides out. The coins are removed after everything is installed. Thanks for the questions. I hope this helps!
what did you do with the wires???
We put a board above it a board below it and nailed a front face so the wires were not exposed.
How to when there’s no studs ? Bought home , has big square hole from storage , want to build this but there’s no studs
That’s weird. Did you run a stud finder across. Send pic to info@ezstudrack.com
Can I hire you to come to my house? Are you anywhere near Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 30 minutes from Nashville.
Dude must not be making money doing that, considering all the damn ads in this video.
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Since this video is more of a product advertising, rather than a DIY educational video, I decided to look more closely at the actual product being sold.
I like the idea of this product, but when I did the research, I found that the execution of it failed horribly; the product is very impractical because of the size and shelf spacing. There is some conflicting information in their advertising as well. The dimensions of 1 bracket are 12.69” tall and 3.5” wide. The spacing between the each shelf is essentially useless. Unless you are working with very very tiny / short items. You would likely only get 1 practical shelf per set of brackets.
To give you a better idea, each bracket can hold 11 shelves. If you placed a shelf at the highest point and the lowest points on the bracket, you would have 9 shelf spaces or slots between those 2 shelves. I watched their promotional video very carefully to see the number of spaces needed for common household/garage items. I took screenshots from the video so I could count the spaces the shelf spaces more closely. Keep in mind that product packaging does change so the items might be larger or smaller now and could take up a different amount of space 🧐.
From the video it appeared that a can of shaving gel used 8 slots (7 for the actual height of the product and 1 for the shelf it was sitting on. A can of Rustoleum spray paint also used 8 slots. A small bottle of Floetrol paint thinner was 12 slots. 1 for the shelf it was sitting on and 11 for the height of the bottle. Since a bracket only has 11 slots, this means that an entire bracket would be wasted. A regular bottle of Roundup with the attached sprayer, is another wasted bracket, as it needs 13 slots. Gamers will need 8 slots for Wii and PS4 type games. For people who are crafting enthusiasts, a small wooden stamp needs 3 slots. A bottle of Smirnoff Vodka would be another wasted bracket with 12 slots. Even a regular sized jar of peanut butter used nearly an entire bracket with 8 slots. And finally, even a package of Gold Fish crackers took 7 slots, which is over half the size of a bracket.
From my point of view this product is impractical. The number of screw holes also seems odd. There are 11 screw holes per bracket, but you are only provided 4 screws per bracket. I figured this out because the Amazon advertisement page for the 32 bracket or 16 set item, indicates that you will be sent 128 screws. The Amazon advertisement STATES you can use up to a 1x10” wide board; however their promotional video and advertisement images indicate that the maximum width is a 1x8” board. Using a 1x8” would mean that there is 4.5” or over 1/2 of the board hanging outside the stud and bracket.
Again, I liked the idea of this product, but I don’t like how it was manufactured. There is no point in having the shelves so close together, when the available space is useless. IMO at the current spacing, and the product height does not offer customers any value for their money. The brackets need to be taller, and have more spacing available between each shelf. Perhaps a variety of spacing with different sized brackets to give buyers more options for their needs. I would not recommend this product whatsoever. I also think the company needs to correct the errors to their advertising, because the conflicting information is misleading. Hope this helps others make a more informed decision on whether or not to purchase the EXStudRack
@@CanadaNurse thank you for your detailed review. I think you are missing the reason why I invented EZStudRack. Saves time, less stress and flexibility. It’s not about how many shelves this can fit, it’s about where to fit the shelf at the time you need it. Yes, go buy a $6 bracket and attach it to your wall, put a big bulky shelf and store whatever you want. When you run out of room, buy another $6 bracket and repeat. When you need something, you start digging, moving items and spend time looking, stressing and scratching your head trying to remember where that item is. EZStudRack puts everything ONE ROW DEEP on your wall. No more digging, no more stress finding it, no more WASTING TIME finding it. When you use it you only have one spot to put it back. It’s a SYSTEM to help you GET ORGANIZED and STAY ORGANIZED. Once it’s up, put a shallow shelf or a deep shelf, whatever you need at that particular time. Now if you are the organized type of person, then this is not for you. EZStudRack is for the person who is tired of clutter and needs a simple system to help declutter. Thanks again for your detailed review.👍🏽
不好看，普通的木板都比这个好
Thanks for your comment. Shelves are wooden boards and you have the flexibility to adjust to fit your items
I think the way you treated the romex is illegal. It looks exposed. I would not do that. I would have left the sheet rock in tact 4in above and below the wire. I would then added 2x4’s above and below the wire. Keeping the wiring blocked off and protected.
Holy crap. Don’t let this guy anywhere near your house. I assure you that running Romex (the electrical wires) between two removable shelves doesn’t meet ANY kind of code. Especially since he or the customer removed one of those shelves by the final shot showing it running loose, hanging in front of a cute statue and waiting to start a fire when somebody snags it and yanks the conductors out of the stair light switches that you could obviously see on the wall when he was saying it was all A-OK. 🙄
This was a kid’s room and he left electrical wires loose!
Thanks for the input. I will permanently put a board above and below with a front cover so exposed wires will be covered up. Again thanks for the input.