Floating Mantel Brackets
The Sheppard Brackets Floating Mantel Bracket can be installed right over the drywall and does NOT require that the drywall be removed. With our MultiMount system and using the Studlock key design that we created and manufacture, your beautiful new mantel can be safely, securely, and beautifully mounted with confidence that it will stay in place for the duration of the lifetime of your home. Sheppard Brackets Floating Mantel Brackets will be able to be drilled into every stud or cross beam that is behind the mantel and will not need to be moved or shifted left or right to line up with any pre-drilled holes. You will also not need to add more difficult-to-drill holes through our 3/16” thick solid still backplates.
Our heavy-duty floating mantel brackets that will hole virtually any solid-wood mantel that you would like to install. For any mantel between 2 ½ and 3 ¾ inches thick, we recommend the floating mantel bracket with a 2 inch backplate. For mantels that are 3 ¾ inches thick and thicker, please consider that floating mantel brackets with a 3 inch backplate.
Floating Mantel Drill Guides and Router Templates
Floating Mantel Bracket Drill Guides
To install a Sheppard Brackets Floating Mantel Bracket with your new wooden mantel, make sure to check out our custom drill plates that ensure that you will get perfectly straight and perfectly spaced holes for installation.
Floating Mantel Bracket Router Templates
To ensure the true flush mount mantel, and to increase, even further, the strength of the brackets, we also recommend that you use our specially-designed router templates to create a mortise into which the brackets will slide and thus become a true, flush-mount floating mantel with no gap between mantel and wall.
Mortised Floating Mantel for true flush-mount using a Sheppard Brackets Floating Mantel Bracket.
Mortised Floating Mantel for true flush-mount using a Sheppard Brackets Floating Mantel Bracket.
Sheppard Brackets Floating Mantel Brackets
For the best-made, best-delivered, and best floating mantel brackets out there, you really only have one choice – Sheppard Brackets Heavy-duty Floating Mantel Brackets. Watch the below demonstration video to see how to prepare and install a floating shelf or floating mantel using Sheppard Brackets Floating Mantel Hardware.