As part of a project I need a few large'ish plastic storage boxes to slide under a bed but the gap is only 115mm ... has anyone seen anything that shallow?
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9 years ago
As part of a project I need a few large'ish plastic storage boxes to slide under a bed but the gap is only 115mm ... has anyone seen anything that shallow?
Plastic bread trays?
Bill
Really Useful Boxes have a useful web page with all their box dimensions on
Staples have this one
The rigid trays used in primary schools are 'Gratnell trays' and come in various heights. Lids are available as options.
They don't usually come with lids but cat litter trays are cheap in supermarkets
Owain
They must be higher than that, or it would be a small slice of bread.
Do they need to be lidded?
Really Useful Box have some 120mm high 20L boxes, which includes the lid. Without it, it would probably fit? Or, the rim of the lid has ribs inside so it is quite a bit higher than the top of the box. You might be able to fabricate a lid from hardboard or ply that would cover the box and still fit under the bed. The internal depth is 90mm and the bases of RUBs aren't very thick
Or a 10L box with a hieght of 85mm
Details of all their boxes here:
Google is your friend shurely......
'Storage' may be the missing link over the keywords in your own subject......
Jim K
Stand the bed on bricks!
+1 for RUB, they are quite 'addictive'.In message , JimK writes
Have you actually tried finding them?
110mm is very shallow - underbed boxes tend to be 150-200mm or so high
:-)
We're talking trays rather than boxes I would have thought. Yes, cat litter trays or something from the horticultural sector perhaps?
Google "bed risers". Amazon stock them.
very simple diy project
NT
Yes, I've tried and failed (or else I wouldn't have asked here)
I was hoping to avoid adding yet another job to the (almost) infinite list, but ...
Thanks! I hadn't heard of them. There's a 710 x 440 x 120 that would be interesting if I can trim 10mm off.
Thanks - that led me to
There is no rest. Accept it I've not found plastic to be good long term. Wood is.
NT
I have some plastic bread trays. The outside height is 105mm. They do not need to be as high as the bread.
Bill
I guess not, but I was thinking of usual stacking ones, which surely need to be as high as the bread a some pints so they can stack without squashing it?
It could a raised support thing I guess, but I was thinking of the ones I have which have those flip over supports/handles or the oens the bakery over the road used to use - IIRC brown with little corner spigots to support the tray above.
I see what you mean. The ones I have must have been designed to go on shelves so they can be pulled out without disturbing the stack. They are actually from a delivery van.
It might be worth making your own, then you'd get exactly what you want.
Bill
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