Shelving

[JHZR2]

Hi,

I have a concrete garage. I am interested in putting shelving up on the back wall of it, and perhaps some on the basement wall as well (is this smart, given that Id be mounting into concrete that is below-grade in the basement?).

Im looking for 1ft shelves, maybe 4ft wide. Any recommndations? Id greatly prefer US made if we still make shelving here...

Thanks!

 

[Pop_Rivit]

There are lots of USA manufacturer's that make commercial grade steel shelving. When I built my shop I put in Vestil steel shelving, although I purchased it used at a substantial discount.

 

[bepperb]

I just put in 28 linear feet of 2' deep 6' high shelving in our garage. My advice would be to go as deep as you can and buy twice what you think you need. I went free-standing as I put a lot of heavy things (fertilizer, snowblower, lumber... etc) on them.

When we moved in I put quite a bit of hang-from-the-wall white wire shelving in our basement. With a bolt cutter you can do that pretty quickly. On our block walls I just painted some 1x4's white and fixed them to a rail along the floor joists, gravity does the rest. No holes in the concrete. I'm not quite sold on the wire shelving but it doesn't gather dust and lets light through.

 

[eljefino]

Are you looking for built in or plausibly moveable? What quality level?

I have the "typical" home center cheezy metal shelves along one garage wall. Screwed them into the wall for extra anti-tip-over protection.

They're tinny but hold up. Storing a cylinder head on one shelf.

I'm a visual person and like shelves instead of cupboards. I would also rather have many shallow shelves than a few deep ones.

 

[Donald]

I have a lot of free standing shelving. Some from Sams. I bolt the top sections together to make it more stable. Even some of what looks a little cheap works fine. Its not like you are Home Depot and storing pallets. They call it racking however and it gets inspected daily for safety concerns. I store a lot of stuff in the boxes that copier paper comes in.

 

[clarklawnscape]

if you dont care about the look, use 2x4's osb and build youre own

 

[bdcardinal]

Costco had some pretty sturdy looking shelving when I was in there yesterday. I didn't look at the country of manufacture though.

 

[JOD]

The Edsal shelving sold at the big box stores is actually pretty nice--typically it's NSF-approved and U.S. made. I picked up a couple units at Lowes last year around X-mas when it was on sale; no complaints. They have 18" and 24" deep. I think you'll get a lot more use out of 18" deep vs. 12" if you have the space.

 

[sciphi]

I have a bunch of cheap 3 and 5-shelf wire-shelved units scattered around. They're big enough to hold tools and what not. They're not the prettiest, so they'll go into the eventual garage. They work well for holding my car junk, though.

 

[KeithG]

This stuff is nice, from Menards:

http://johnsterling.com/DTshelfbrackets.html

 

[JHZR2]

Sorry I let this flop. No, I'd like wall-hanging shelving, as I keep big, heavy stuff on the floor, and also like to pull my car as far in our detached garage as possible, SI so I can keep stuff close to the door for access. The cars I keep in there don't get as much use, so this works great.

But there are feet of wall space I'd like to be able to utilize.

Fwiw, my garage is made of some kind of block. Not cinderblocks and not hollow, but some kind of 1920s-1930s concrete block with a decorative surface.