Thread: Pallet Racking to Shelves or Workbench

In a commercial warehousing situation, these shelving units are installed and certified by dexion for a load. This is relative to the spacing of the supports, and load rating is reduced for the higher levels (up to 4m height).

Pallet loading on the compliance plate for the unit I have in a comercial setting is up to 2500KG per level, and this would also include a margin of error (I have loaded with goods with a irregular centre of gravity).
Even if that max value is assumed to be equally loaded between front and rear horizontal supports, would your load be likely to exceed 1250KG on a single span? Or less?

The right thing to do would be to get you to contact dexion and get them to inspect your setup and certify it. You'll pay for it.

Realistically, just make it happen, and chances are you will well and truly be under the design capacity if you have your heads screwed on.

Hello All,

After checking out a number of hardware stores for their prices, I bought 8 sheets of 3600 mm x 900 mm x 19 mm Green Tongue particle board flooring for the pallet shelves. Since the width of my pallet rack is 840 mm I had to buy the longer sheets to be able to get the width spanned.

With the aid of an endless chain hoist; some straps, rope, chain and some rectangular box section I was able to position the shelving - without any support bars. I lay on some of the sheeting when I positioned the higher shelves so that was a good test of its weight bearing capacity.

I will Tek Screw the sheets in place tomorrow. Still no power in the shed so I was restricted to just positioning the sheets today.

Thank you for all your contributions. Hopefully within a couple of days of Tek screwing I will have the storage issue in my shed sorted out and I might be able to find things the first time I go looking for them! You know things having their proper place and being able to found within minutes. No shuffling through piles of detritus to find something an hour or so later. Or just giving up and going to a hardware store and buying a replacement item because it is quicker and cheaper to do so.

Kind regards
Lionel

Nice work.

Wish I’d done the block and tackle lift
I put the sheets in position by hand. That was one hell of a workout!