How To Hang Pegboard On A Concrete Block Wall

How to mount a pegboard to a cinderblock wall.

How to hang pegboard on a concrete block wall.

Hanging the support boards gives you a solid surface to attach the pegboard and also allows for some dead space behind it. You want the board to stick out of the wall to leave space for hooks. Pegboards on garage walls provide an excellent way to store and organize your tools in plain sight. Pegboard is a tempered hardboard with pre drilled holes designed to be strong enough to support most household hand tools.

This guide reviews the steps for how to hang a pegboard and make use of garage storage space that might otherwise go wasted. Staple gun or nail your pegboards to the 1 x 2 boards. Nail or staple a 1 x 2 board across the top to give the pegboard a framed finished look. Measure 24 inches down the wall from the top of the first board and place a second board.

Take a level and place. Place a 4 foot 1 by 2 inch board against the cinder block wall at the top edge of the location where you d like the peg board to be installed. I used 2 sheets of 2 x 4 pegboards that i bought at home depot. Then insert screws into the holes after.

After making the holes put down the board and put the masonry wall anchors in the holes. Screw the pegboard in at regular intervals such as six inches apart in a horizontal line. Repeat with remaining furring strips to secure the pegboard to the wall.