General hardware techniques used throughout TroveBlade assembly and installation — the kind of thing you'll reference more than once, not just read in order. If you're following the step-by-step Installation guide and land here from a link, that's exactly how this page is meant to be used.
Separate your M5×8mm and M5×10mm bolts before you start. Also set aside one silver M6×25mm and one M6×35mm (color-matched to the frame), plus four M5×20mm bolts, per TroveBlade.
Sliding T-nuts go in through the open edge of the 2020 profile. They are a little harder to work with than drop-ins, but the connection is stronger and more reliable — they cannot accidentally unlock during repositioning. We use them mostly.
Prepare the bracket with all bolts and T-nuts assembled. Align T-nuts with the targeted slot of the 2020 profile and finger-tighten. Then back each bolt out about two full turns — if the bolt head isn't flush with the bracket, the nut didn't drop into the slot. Push the bolts in, confirm the heads are flush, then hand-tighten everything down.
When tightening into 2020 aluminum profiles, the rules are different from wood or steel. The threads are small, and you can strip them if you go past snug.
When it's time for final tightening, make sure there's no gap between the bracket and the extrusion. A gap means the T-nut isn't seated — loosen, reposition, and retighten. If a bracket has multiple bolts, tighten in a cross pattern — diagonal pairs, not side to side. Once the system is complete, check every bolt. If you're not sure it's locked, unscrew it and re-tighten.
Do not pass ¼ turn. If you feel substantial resistance before that, stop.
To assemble a TroveBlade, you need a board to attach it to. In this example, we use a metal pegboard.
Advantage: consistent, parallel rows of ¼" holes. Disadvantage: those holes don't usually align with the slide's mounting holes.
Our solution: we provide a 2020 profile adapter cut to the slide's length minus 2" and attached to the slider, so any metal pegboard can be attached from its back side.
If you're using IKEA SKÅDIS or another plastic pegboard, note that the hole pattern is different. In every case, you have two options for attaching your board to the slide: through the 2020 adapter (M5×8mm bolts and T-nuts included for metal pegboard attachment), or directly to the slide.
Going higher. If you want a board taller than the cantilever's range allows, use a stronger board and space the cantilevers up to the maximum length of the cantilever arm — 1 meter.
At your own peril. We are not responsible for the consequences. Keep in mind: the higher something is mounted, the more kinetic energy it carries if it falls. A dumbbell or bowling ball dropping from height hits a lot harder than the same item falling from a low shelf. Your board moves during use — secure everything carefully, especially at height. And seriously: consider a helmet when working up there.
Matching heights across TroveBlades. We strongly recommend keeping all TroveBlades in a system at the same height. The provided hardware is designed to treat your wall as a single frame, which makes final adjustment — especially squaring to a 90° wall — much easier.
The correct setup: when you pull two TroveBlades (especially TroveBlade Cache units) out together, the distance between them stays constant. This is far easier to achieve with a single consistent frame height.
In the frame installation instructions, we suggest setting up the leftmost and rightmost TroveBlades first to correctly establish the top and bottom frame profiles. The remaining TroveBlades should fit snugly between those profiles, so all TroveBlades in a standard installation should be at the same height.
If your TroveBlade has a wall on one side, decide your Side-Safe configuration before attaching cantilevers to your board (see Installation 1.2) — it's much harder to change later. Not sure whether this applies to you? See FAQ — What is Side-Safe?
There are two ways to set up a Side-Safe TroveBlade:
1. Mounting brackets close to the wall, board's prettier side facing you. Harder to install — the TroveBlade's mounting brackets and the wall anchors are fighting for the same ~40mm (1.57") of space near the wall. It's our favorite anyway:
2. Board's prettier side facing the wall. Easier to install, with tradeoffs:
The rest of the Installation guide follows the first, more involved setup — the second isn't meaningfully different from a non-Side-Safe installation.
Already built your TroveBlade the other way and need to switch sides? A dedicated walkthrough for converting between the two Side-Safe configurations is on the way.
There may be cases where the top L Corner Bracket Joining Plate completely covers the stud, leaving no room to add a top stud anchor separately. This can happen with any TroveBlade, but it's almost guaranteed with a Side-Safe setup (see above), where the Joining Plate and a stud anchor are both fighting for the same tight space near the wall. In this case, attach a top anchor to one of the Joining Plate's bolts, as shown.
This is why the frame installation instructions start with the lower anchors — they're also easier to reposition if they end up in the TroveBlade's way.
