Thread: Garage Shelving

Hi MickG, I’m not sure these are what you want but I bought some slot-together shelving kits last year from a place in Nerang.

I’ve got 4 kits, they seem to be good and solid and I have them stacked to the roof.

You don’t need any tools to put the up and they take about 10 minutes to put together.

The kit makes up into a set of 3 or 4 shelves, 60 cm deep 180 cm long and 2 m high. I can’t remember how many shelves came in the standard kit as I bought extra shelves.

You get 4 steel corner posts and each shelf is made up of 2 steel angles and a half inch sheet of particle board.

If you interested post back and I’ll try and find the receipt with the cost and address, from memory, they weren’t that expensive.

Cheers

I dont know about any specialts anywhere. There are industrial shelving companies around but i hate to think what they would charge. My suggestion is go to Mitre 10 or Bunnings or something and buy the heavy duty shelving kits, the better the strenght and quality the more you will pay. Each brand has different dimensions so measure the length you need yo cover and buy as many as you need, the put them together and fix them to the wall for further structual rigidity. Matt

Mick - head to Bunnings, they sell angle iron, I think in 3 metre length. They also sell 2400 x 900 chipboard which I think is 18mm thick. I cut these sheets in half and create bays of 1200 x 900. You can buy the appropriate nuts and bolts in the same area as the angle iron. I also bolted the shelves on with quarter inch bolts (1 and a half inches long from memory).

When its all bolted together and a couple of tek screws into the walls you get a pretty strong unit. You join as many as you like together.

If you drive a landrover then you have to be able to build these shelves.

Alternatively, the trading post often has shelving or pallet racking for sale - cheaper than the Bunnings angle iron!

I have never seen a shelving kit worth buying - they are too flimsy.

Go to a sechond hand office furniture place and buy some Brownbuilt commercial shelving. That's what I did. Cheap at the time.

Steel sides, steel back and adjustable shelves. Hand tools (screwdriver and small spanner) are all that is required to assemble.

See http://www.officecentre.com.au/category20_1.htm

Ron

Hi Ace and farmcar, I shopped around before I bought my shelves and if I remember correctly, the board alone from Bunnings was going to cost me more the the full shelves did.

Bunnings is the place to go AFTER you have been every where else, there just to expensive.

Cheers

I'm not sure if Mr Plywood is up in QLD, but I always buy ply from them in Sydney. They sell sheets of 1200 x 2400, I think you can buy smaller pieces if need be. They do cut it up the sheets for a fee, and I've found them to be very reasonable on price, and much better quality than Bunnings.

I generally draw a diagram of a sheet showing what sections and dimensions I would like cut, fax it to them and pick it up later that day, great service I think.

Originally posted by drivesafe
Hi Ace and farmcar, I shopped around before I bought my shelves and if I remember correctly, the board alone from Bunnings was going to cost me more the the full shelves did.

Bunnings is the place to go AFTER you have been every where else, there just to expensive.

Cheers

I wouldnt go to bunnigs either, as you say they are just to expensive, they were suggestions, M10 is a much better bet, or you could shop around and try the steel places and buy the materials to make your own. If you made the bays out of the 450mm wide melamine shelving you can wipe them clean with turps or thinners when you spill something on them, its a little dearer, but it comes in 6 or 8 foot lengths and the laminated surface wont absord oils etc like normal chipboard or MDF. If you wanted to keep the price down make the bays 3 feet wide and 450mm deep and use 12mm MDF or plywood, its much cheaper than 18mm, and if for most uses just as strong, just use the thicker stuff on the lower shelves if you want to store really heavy stuff. Matt

The stuff I use is form ply - it is black plastic coated and used for concrete formwork. I can't check the thickness at the moment but it is about 5/8" thick 5 or 7-ply

Its biggest advantage over melamine covered chip board is that it is much more resistant to bending under heavy loads.

Mr Ply&Wood will cut it to size.

Rin