Wall fixing for a shelf?

[CheesyMother]

I’m thinking about buying a biplane shelf from the great little trading company (www.gltc.co.uk/collections/wall-shelves/products/bi-plane-wall-shelf) for my DC’s room, but I have absolutely no idea what sort of wall fixing I should get to go with it...

I obviously want something minimalistic so it doesn’t impact on the look of the shelf too much. I’ll also be fitting it to the chimney breast, so it’s to a brick wall. I’d also like it to be able to support the quoted 20kg...

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what would be suitable?

What fixing you use will depend on the wall in the position you want to place it.

You can see from this zoomed in pic from the shop site that you need to fix it in 4 places.

Modern build houses are likely to have walls made mostly of plasterboard supported by wooden frame uprights every couple of feet. If there happens to be a horizontal bit of wood exactly where you need it, you can use wood screws. If it is just plasterboard with void behind then you need to look for hollow wall anchor fixings (but you will need to check the diameter of the holes in the shelf support. If it's an older property with solid masonry walls you will just need some heavy-duty rawl plugs and matching screws.

The variability being down to wall type is why manufacturers don't include fixings as standard a lot of the time.

As you've clearly said you're fixing it to brick OP, ignore most of the plasterboard advice above.

It looks as if you'll be able to drill directly into the brick in line with your chosen fixings and fix using wall plugs and screws. I tend to use 10mm wall plug screw packs from b and q or screwfix

Thanks! I’m confident about which screws to use and rawl plugs etc for the brick wall. What I have no idea about is the actual bracket that that shelf will be attached to.

I’d like something discreet like the zoomed in photo attached to Kiho’s post, but B&Q/Screwfix etc all seem to just sell L shaped brackets. Would the ones in the photo even give enough support if you wanted to actually use it as a shelf rather than just a wall decoration?

I get that walls are wildly different and so they don’t want to include the actual screws, but why on earth can’t they provide the brackets?

Kiho seems to assume that the brackets in that picture are included, but they’re not shown in any other picture and if you click through to the instructions it’s pretty clear from the components list that no brackets are included... unless I’m being stupid?

They look like alcove shelf brackets but fixed to the main wall rather than the ends.

How effective they are will depend a bit on the material the shelves are made from and the weight you load on the shelves.
I suspect they'd probably be fine for just the shelves but not for loading

It looks quite like those shelves are just hanging on the brackets rather than fixed

Ah I hadn't realised the brackets in the photo weren't included in the package. That's not very good. Probably false advertising

Something like these might do the job?