How can I use cable wire to suspend a desk?
Want to make a floating desk with cable wire and need it to fold down for easy storage. What do I attach the cable to?
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Studs in the ceiling.
Cable hitches in the floor, ceiling, and an adjacent wall to pin the tabletop away sometimes. Terrific idea!
The ceiling joists.
If there’s an attic, you’ll be able to easily find them.
If it’s an old house, the ceiling joists may be only 2x4’s and won’t hold the desk without multiple mounting points and multiple joists.
Will your cable hold the desk and the desk contents and one’s forearms leanjng in it?
I’d look at cable fastening hardware that is rated for at least 500 lbs because you’ll have both a dead load & a live load.
you can use big hooks on edge/sides of desk& carbiners on cables here's video how these people hung a bed from ceiling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCZHQw-wJ_Y you will be able to do same from the wall so cables would be diagonal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxTT0uNU9WE here's how to put up desk top that folds down using piano hinge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZMeZv8u8uM one more on piano hinge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ResB0LpH2H0 one more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QTHhMh0C5I have you woked with cable wire before better to use the crimping loops with the thimbles https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dindustrial&field-keywords=crimping+loops