Once you wish to shield your partitions from being broken by darts, you must mount your dartboard inside a dartboard cupboard. This particular cupboard will shield your partitions with an expanded space for darts do you have to miss the dartboard. Hanging a dartboard cupboard just isn’t far more troublesome than handing a dartboard once you comply with these steps.

Step 1: Guarantee You Have Loads of Area

The regulation throwing line for darts is eight ft from the face of the dartboard for soft-tipped and digital dartboards. For steel-tipped dartboards, the throw line is at seven ft 9 and one-quarter inches.

You’ll want to place the dartboard within the cupboard. Whereas somebody holds this on the base of the wall, measure out the required distance. You should use masking tape or packing tape to mark the throw line.

Step 2: Mark The place the Bullseye Must Be

The bullseye must be 5 ft eight inches off the ground. Place a mark on this location on the wall the place you wish to cling the dartboard cupboard.

Step 3: Measure the Width of the Cupboard with the Doorways Open

You must confirm there’s ample house on the wall when the doorways are totally opened. If in case you have an open dartboard cupboard, you continue to must confirm there’s loads of room. Subsequent, measure the wall to confirm and make sure the bullseye mark is within the heart.

Step 4: Use a Stud Finder to Find Studs

The cupboard must be secured to the partitions. One of the best ways to do that is to mount it to studs behind the drywall. A stud finder will let you realize the situation of the studs. Mark the studs utilizing a washable marker.

Normally, the spacing between studs is sixteen inches—the identical spacing the place the holes are inside the cupboard for mounting. Nonetheless, some properties have the studs spaced aside 24 inches. So if it isn’t attainable to safe either side of the cupboards to studs, you should utilize wall anchors on one facet.

Step 5: Put together the Cupboard for Hanging

• Place the cupboard face up on the ground or desk and open the doorways.
• Heart the dartboard inside the cupboard.
• Measure from the underside of the cupboard to the middle of the bullseye. Write this measurement down.
• Maintain the cupboard towards the wall utilizing the stud marks and peak mark you made earlier.
• Have somebody measure from the ground on top of things inside the cupboard to confirm it’s on the right peak.
• Stage the cupboard by inserting a degree on prime of it.
• As soon as degree, use a pencil or marker to mark the situation on the wall via the predrilled holes within the cupboard.
• Take away the cupboard.
• Utilizing the suitable measurement drill bit, drill about half the size of the mounting screws into the studs. In case you are utilizing wall anchors, drill the holes and safe the anchors into the wall.

Step 6: Mount the Cupboard to the Wall

• Maintain the cupboard as much as the wall and align the predrilled holes within the cupboard with those within the wall.
• Screw within the higher left screw however don’t totally tighten. Align the higher proper screw gap and confirm the cupboard remains to be degree. Whether it is, then screw within the higher proper screw and totally tighten the higher left one. If it isn’t degree, you may redrill the holes within the right areas.
• Screw within the decrease left and proper screws.
• Safe the U-shaped bracket that got here together with your dartboard to the cupboard. The mark inside the cupboard ought to be seen on the decrease a part of the “U.”
• End prepping the again of the dartboard utilizing the directions that got here with it.
• Dangle the dart board within the cupboard and switch it barely, so the quantity 20 is on the very prime.

Step 7: Play Darts

Now that your dartboard cupboard and dartboard are mounted to the wall, you’re able to play darts.

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