Home Installations in Santa Rosa

What is behind the wall decides the job

Anything carrying weight has to be fixed to something structural. Drywall anchors have a real place, but they are not what a floating shelf full of books, a wall-mounted television or a barn door track should be relying on.

Where there is nothing structural in the right place, the answer is to add blocking rather than to use a bigger anchor. That means opening the wall, fixing timber between the studs, and closing it up — more work on the day, and the reason the installation is still solid in five years.

Installations Gary regularly handles

• Sliding barn doors and interior doors
• Timber slat walls and slat ceilings
• Floating shelves and bracketed shelving
• Acoustic and sound panel installation
• Crown, casing, baseboard and decorative molding
• Wall-mounted fixtures and hardware
• Mantles, hooks, rails and storage fittings

Barn doors need a real header

A sliding barn door puts its entire weight on a track fixed above the opening, and that track has to be carried on something structural across its whole length — not just at the ends, and not into drywall.

It also has to be dead level. A track that is off by a small amount over its run means the door rolls toward the low end by itself every time it is opened. Levelling the track is the whole job.