Garage Storage: Shelving

Author: Marti Sims

Author: Marti Sims

A garage is the ideal home for all sorts of items and activities - from the storing of sporting equipment to tools and machines; and its basic intention for car parking to situations like a home-office, a gymnasium or a workshop. If your garage is just used for storing instead of other things it really requires some shelves for arrangement.

Usually garage shelves can be found in 2 main forms: site-built and prefabricated. Site-built is shelving commonly not so costly and allow you to accommodate the sizes to the free place accessible. Everything that you need can be found at the local home center, lumber yard, discount store or hardware shop.

One of the basic principles of the garage shelves is made of a simple piece of plyboard or a length of 1x or 2x lumber on a set of heavy-duty shelf angle brackets. This is mounted by attaching the angle brackets to the rivets directly using long screws then by attaching the shelving to the brackets. To strengthen the shelf you can add a brace at each rivet.

A different type of shelves are the floor supported ones. 1 way is to extend vertical 2x4s each 50 ins and resting them on the floor and attaching them to the balks or ceiling joists at the top. In addition, the 2x4s are extended horizontally on edge between the verticals then a particleboard is applied to produce the shelf. The most normally utilized dimensions are 19-25 ins for depth and the spacing between 2x4s is usually on 25 inches but these sizes can be changed to bear the size of the things you are storing.

For storing small things consider the room between the studs. By attaching a series of 1x2 strips horizontally to the inside edges of two connected studs about 6 ins apart, cutting some 1x4 and 1x6 pieces of lumber and fitting them between studs and slipping them on top of the 1x2s you can create some small adjustable shelves. These are great for jars, cans and bottles and also for other small and light items. The small shelves are great for organizing and storing screws and nails.

The better selection when constructing prefabricated garage shelves is Steel shelves. Plastic shelving may be enough for storing light weight items but in time you may require something more resistant for storing heavier things. One disadvantage of the steel shelving is that they cannot be cut to size so they have general widths, depths and heights so you have to select something that suits within your accessible room.

Adjustability is another important consideration in preassembled shelving. Prefabricated shelves should be adjustable to at least two different locations within the shelving framework and also the pins for lining up should be heavy duty and should have something in place for preventing them from working loose or getting unexpectedly shifted.

Another thing to be taken into consideration when choosing for preassembled shelving, particularly those designed for heavy loads, is that they may need a wall fastening or other support against tilting.About the Author:

Marti Sims has an old house, that frequently needs some home improvement maintenance and tlc. Visit her website at http://homediyprojects.info for some great ideas on home improvement projects and how to save money doing it.

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