An exercise in frustration?

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Is it even possible for one person to successfully hang up shelving alone? I thought it would be not too difficult:

attach boards to brackets
hold to wall with level on top
make pencil marks where holes are
drill over pencil marks
hammer in weird plastic wall protectors
hold up shelving
screw to wall
repeat with next section

I can't even get the pencil marks right though, everytime I get two, they slip when I try to do the other side, I think I'm going to just give up. Shelves leaning on floor at crazy angle -> modern art scultpure. I feel like a failure here, I'm a klutz at simple carpentry.

― lyra (lyra), Saturday, 21 September 2002 18:02 (twenty-three years ago)

How many ILXers does it take to put up a shelf? I wouldn't fancy trying this alone either, Lyra.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 21 September 2002 18:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd offer to come round and help, but I don't even know what country you live in, so I won't!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 21 September 2002 18:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm sure lyra would be glad to pay for yr ticket martin.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 21 September 2002 18:25 (twenty-three years ago)

she might if it was a tube ticket, but not if she is one of the Dunedin crowd, I suspect! I can never remember where anyone lives if they have never shown up at a London meet.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 21 September 2002 18:31 (twenty-three years ago)

RON TO THREAD!!!

― vic (vicc13), Saturday, 21 September 2002 18:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Have a break, have a kit-kat.

― Shaz, Saturday, 21 September 2002 18:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Seattle, WA, USA -> only a few thousand miles away.
I think the problem is this- me: 5'5" shelves: 3' 6"ish, so they're so long that they keep slipping when I try to hold them up. It's too bad they're too heavy to temporarily duct tape in place against the wall.

― lyra (lyra), Saturday, 21 September 2002 18:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I managed it the other day, but it was hard work. And I'm a tall-ish chap. Is there nothing you can use to support them - even if you only support one end, it makes everything easy, like if you had 3 hands

― Mark C (Mark C), Sunday, 22 September 2002 13:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll have extra hands monday evening. The advantage of staying good friends with exes: I emailed one to ask for help, and he's going to stop by to assist, yay.
I actually did try the holding-up-the-other-side-with-something method (using a chair with a huge pile of books on it) but it wiggled too much- I couldn't get the pencil marks up much better than with just me holding them.

― lyra (lyra), Sunday, 22 September 2002 15:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I tell you ask Ron, the man makes furniture and is also on Seattle

― vic (vicc13), Sunday, 22 September 2002 18:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Ron is secretly laughing at my ineptness, I'm sure.

― lyra (lyra), Sunday, 22 September 2002 21:20 (twenty-three years ago)

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