Thread: Ghost's Shed Build

Hi All,

I've discovered that owning a shed is like owning a Land Rover - it's never quite finished...

The light that came in the sand blaster is pretty poor - so I purchased some of these (very cheap), and installed them with double sided tape - works a treat!

Led Lights by Grey Ghost, on Flickr

Next up - repositioned (and modified) the monitor bracket & hung the speakers:

IMG_0719 by Grey Ghost, on Flickr

Like I said - it's like owning a Land Rover, there's always something to do..

Cheers,
GG.

We are currently building a shed (I think 14x9x4) and we will be needing to make/buy lots of shelving.
So far what are your thoughts about the shelving (blue and orange) ie. weight, cost, ease of putting together?
Did you consider making your own, why or why not ect.
sorry you probably have already discussed this and I am just being lazy

Just a thought Smurf,
The dexion style racking is pretty heavy duty, but is great for heavy items (IIRC each shelf is good for 200kg or so).
If you are in no rush, and need something lighter duty, keep an eye on gumtree / ebay for gondola shelving, usually had very cheap after shop refits (or maybe go the next step and speak to shop fitters!).
I recently threw out 10 or so bays of old gondola shelving at work after a refit of one of our sites. It's the staple display of retail stores, and if you know where to look it'd be cheap and easy to work with / easily customized.

Originally Posted by Landy Smurf

We are currently building a shed (I think 14x9x4) and we will be needing to make/buy lots of shelving.
So far what are your thoughts about the shelving (blue and orange) ie. weight, cost, ease of putting together?
Did you consider making your own, why or why not ect.
sorry you probably have already discussed this and I am just being lazy

I found a stack of steel bench parts at a clearing sale solved the bench bit for a start, then I also got a stack of Loxangle and a stack of offcuts of the heavy ply used for formwork and used this to build more bench and shelving at two other clearing sales. For heavy shelving, I managed to find, at yet another clearing sale, a stack of steel truck sides that were easy to convert into shelving - two on end with others attached between them with tek screws give very heavy shelving that easily stands up to trays of bolts, vehicle parts etc.

In other words, I looked for opportunities.

The stuff that Toms used is probably good for about 500kg per pallet space.
You can get it even heavier if you choose, and looking on sites such as Grays will find various factory lots. Even going to the makers/suppliers you will see second hand stuff pretty cheap.

I mostly used pallets.
cheers,
d

Hi Landy Smurf,

The stuff I used is Dexion (there are cheap chinese alternatives out there). Some thoughts:

* It is easy to put together - you assemble the uprights (all bolts together like a mechano set), and the orange beams clip in place. It's a bit like a landy!
* It is readily available - as others have said, look on ebay, grays, gumtree, there is heaps of the stuff out there.
* Because I used Dexion - I know that I can easily replace it or add to it in the future.
* It does come in different sizes (I think that I ended up using 3 different sizes, small & medium for the racking in the shed, and large for the big work bench)
* It is modular - you can basically set the shelf sizes to whatever you want.
* It does come in different weight bearing types. For example the work bench orange cross beams are rated at 2.5 tonnes...
* You can make it stronger by installing more cross beams per shelf - I only had 2 beams per shelf, one at the front and one at the rear - but I have seen installations that have one in the middle also.
* It's reasonably cheap - I would say that my entire shed cost about $5,000 - but that is 20 mtrs across (with 3 shelves in most bays, 2 bays are 5 shelves), plus the 2 work benches, and all of the chip board.
* Because it's designed for a warehouse - it's designed for pallet sizes, and you can bolt it to the floor if you have a fork-lift...
* It basically took an entire day to install all of the shelving & 2 work benches.. That was just 2 of us (including cutting the chipboard, and painting it).
* I did look at buying multiple shelving units from Bunnings - but it would have cost a lot more $, taken a lot more time to install, and wouldn't have been as strong.
* I liked the idea of the orange cross beams - I have bought yellow stickers that I can label the cross beams with... My plan was one bay per vehicle (101, Rangie, Perentie, Stage One V8, 60 Series II, 61 Series II, miscellaneous)
* I figured that if I ever need to, it would be easy enough to dismantle & sell.
* You don't need any special tools - we just used a rubber mallet, a couple of shifters, and a circular saw to cut the chip-board.
* Because it is easy to install - we spent a bit of time playng with it, getting the best configuration.. We changed a few things due to the uprights/purlins in the shed.

I hope that this helps. Have a quick look on Ebay - I just did - there is a lot of it out there.

Cheers,
GG.

Thanks so much for the quick and detailed reply. I will have a look over the weekend