Garage shelving

I've always found chipboard sags. Try a timber merchant, explain what you want and you may be able to get some decent boards which will work much better. B&Q uses to do some pine shelves which were relatively cheap but did the job.

Paul DS.

Ply then? If so, how thick?

NT

I used thick mdf for the shelves in my garage and they're surprisingly sag-free, on spurs. Pretty cheap to make (although mine are only half that depth). Brought them with me from the last place where they were up for the best part of 10 years. Of course it wouldn't be any good if they were going to get wet, but it rarely rains in my garage...

Thanks. If I use 2" x 2", what size screws to fix to the wall? I ask because, as already demonstrated, I've a habit of 'over engineering'!

Depends on the wall, on whether the shelving is self supporting or wall supported, etc. 4-5" I guess, if the wall's good & sound.

NT

I found it was hard to beat Makro's Fairline branded ready made stuff. If you wait for the special offers then you can have it at £35 a pack. Decent strength steel framing, 5 shelves (chip or mdf) supported on all

nowt wrong with that. I've long practised BSE: Brick Shithouse Engineering. Work done 40 years ago is still there - and the pointy ends of the screws on the other side of the walls are handy for hanging things on ;-)

That's reassuring: it's not just me...

Slughle! You owe me a new keyboard!

My neighbour regularly regales me of the time the previous occupier here put in kitchen units, and the screws she pushed into the wall ended up falling out into my neighbour's kitchen.

JGH

I have a spare one for mobile use - 4" cast-iron castors on it, so a push in the right direction...

Chap at work drilled through the wall of his cellar and started draining his washing m/c into next door's cellar! If it /had/ been an outside wall, I still wonder if he would've checked to see where it went.

Me too. When I put up our first kitchen caninets, I used Rawlbolts!

Thanks, all, for the advice.

I've done this in my garage & in several pub cellars;

Fix 63 x 38 CLS timber (cheap as chips) horizontally to the walls using hammer fixings, at the height you want each shelf.

Get a sheet of 11mm OSB ripped down to the depth you want, glue & screw a 2 x 1 batten on edge along the front edges to act as a stiffener.

Screw back edge of shelf onto CLS. Use 3 x 1 sawn as uprights secured to

Quick, easy, cheap, strong.

It all depends on the stuff! You'll have to provide some estimate of the load, and whether it is distributed (like say lengths of timber, sheet, pipes) or localised.