Shed/Garage Shelving

[darrenyorston]

I am looking for some plans to build shelving in my garage. I currently have some older shelving that was is not really up to the weight it is carrying so a few shelves are bowing. Also the shelves were built for a different shaped garage and are no longer an effective use of the space. Does anyone have some plans or images to share?

I am wanting the shelves at max to be around 3m high and 5m long and about 550m deep.

I drew up some ideas myself but I get lost in the geometry. The current shelves utilise coach bolts screwed through the side of a post into the end grain of a support.

[Ashore]

For the price carpal have a good product for shelving a snip to put up light weight and is movable


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And here is some I did for a neighbour

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[HappyHammer]

What are you going to put on the shelves?

HH.

[darrenyorston]

The shelves will hold tool boxes, power tools, crates of camping gear, crates with shoes and bike helmets, eskies, scuba equipment, empty jerry cans. The sort of stuff that seems to clog up our garages and sheds.

Max weight for any shelf would be maybe 40kg.

I would like to make them myself out of wood. I don't really like the steel look.

I have attached an idea of what I was thinking about doing for the joints. Any problems with the design? Unsure though about secure the beams to the posts. I though about using coach bolts. The structural supports are the ones coloured yellow, the green ones are just there to tie in the posts. Would coach bolts through the yellow beams and coach screws for the green ones be ok?

[woodsprite]

Depends how neat you want it I guess. When I built the heavy duty shelving in my shed - pretty much the same dimensions as yours actually, I used 900mm square posts at the ends, and then tech screwed the horizontal rails on. I have 2 intermediate posts along the length - these are about 4 x 1/2 inches - front and back. I teched short supports fromthe back to the front, through the hoirzontal rails and also through the sides of the intermediate posts. I made up shelving from some 5 ply. The techs keep it all together well - no movement anywhere and it looks reasonably neat. Was lucky and got all the timber from a local 2nd hand timber yard that also recycles car crates - practically all the timber is baltic pine.
Hope this helps.
Jeff

[zathras]

For the price carpal have a good product for shelving a snip to put up light weight and is movable



And here is some I did for a neighbour

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Gee I reckon the plasterer would have been glad to see the end of that garage ! :eek:

[TommyC]

You can shout THAT out! Fitting 4 peices of cornice into the dunny in my shed did my head in - look at all those tcuts around the piers!!!

[Ramps]

Darren
I was feeling the same as you ... metal yuck plus I would have to go and buy it:eek:

I used a few bits of recycled Jarrah that I had ...3x2 split in half (about 2x1 and a bit) and whacked it thru the thinnesser. The just butt joined with a couple of screws with the Kreg jig. Quick, simple and strong. I can hang off any single shelf support so two of them and and a piece of wood to distribute the weight should do it easily.

Mine were designed to fit in the linen "walk in" in our rental but were really designed to go in the shed when we move out. :D

Cost a packet of square drive screws and some mdf for the shelves.

See pics of joints ... the last being from the inside of the shelves (aren't digital cameras wonderful)