Garage shelving.

The sheds sell knockdown shelving units in steel, wood or plastic for less than you can buy the materials for.

These are good value (I have 5 units) but collect dust as the shelves are lattice type. Real time saver though.

About £20 pound a unit IIRC. I picked up some broken ones half price and extended the height with the good bits.

HTH,

Alex.

I used 2 x 2 tanalised sawn timber. 5 lengths fixed to the wall horizontally with frame fixings. 5 lengths of OSB with a 2 x 1 batten screwed & glued along one edge (1" side fixed to OSB).

Uprights were 3 x 1 sawn tanalised.

Takes 2 to assemble, or 4 hands. Start at top, screw un battened edge of OSB to 2 x 2 and level with clamps on 3 x 1 upright at each end. Screw through 3 x 1 into 2 x 1 to fix. Work down to fix other shelves. Fix remaining uprights.

Cheap, strong & quick. Mine are only 18" deep, but don't sag either way.

Dave

I did have plastic modular shelving in my workshop, but found it a bit inflexible with respect to shelf spacing (i.e. like it or lump it), so I replaced it with Screwfix twin slot shelving uprights and suitable depth U brackets. Cheap in comparison to most places. Simply ripped strips off a 3/4" sheet of MDF from wickes (about £12 IIIRC) for the shelves themselves.

The Ikea wire shelving seems to be the bargain bucket best for garage/warehouse use at present.

Is it even cheaper than their wood equivalent?

Probably not, but it is tremendously strong. We had a stack in our office loaded floor to ceiling with books, manuals, server boxes, dumb terminals, spare parts, reams of paper, etc.

The downside with ready made shelves is they never fit the space, you end up with gaps at the ends, sometimes wrong height, and you cant fit shallower or tapered ones in where theres a smaler gap etc. It all gets quite inefficient usually. DIY is more work, but you end up getting lots more junk in there.

I sure wouldnt use 2x1 for framing tho, 2x2 as a minimum, bit more if its heavy stuff. And always always fit proper bracing, to not do so is to risk your life for the sake of a couple of quids worth of wood.

NT

Probably not, but it seems good on a "what you pay for what you get" basis. It's about £15-30 a module IIRC. We recently outfitted our warehpuse with it at a fraction of the cost of buying the same stuff from an industrial racking supplier.