Garage Shelves

[Irving]

I don't have that much room above my door. But I do have all that room up in the attic, which is currently stuffed full. I want shelves up there as well, but am really NOT looking forward to building stuff in such a tight space.

[flogger]

I don't have that much room above my door. But I do have all that room up in the attic, which is currently stuffed full. I want shelves up there as well, but am really NOT looking forward to building stuff in such a tight space.

Watch what you store in an attic space. It gets pretty warm/cold up there and any platform you build should not compromise or crush the insulation. PLUS lots of wiring and many ways to put your foot through a ceiling. They can be a great place with enough headroom, lighting and a fold down access ladder, wish mine was bigger (my attic that is).

[Sharpienads]

Wait till he goes to level them. Or square them up and realizes how out of square the garage is.

This is a really good point. You don't realize how out of square your house is until you make something slightly more square and realize it doesn't fit like it should because you assumed your walls were square. Point is, I wouldn't worry too much about making the shelves perfectly square. I would just cut all my boards to length, measure and mark where your boards should be, and start screwing.

[Great-Kazoo]

Ay-yup yup yup.

Here's some old photos of my garage overheads. The crap on them has changed around many times, some's gone, more's been added, but it kinda shows what I'm talking about. It's a mess, but a constantly changing mess. These photos are about 10 years old.

All my 24" overheads along the walls are built with 2"x2" perforated steel angle, because I had a bunch of it. But they could be made out of pine 2x2's even easier, and be just as strong. And far cheaper.

The "loft". There's more stuff up there now than you can believe, including an entire, intact 1956 CJ5 front axle, with brakes on it. And the entire windshield assembly, fenders, grill, radiator, soft top, 10 jerry cans, half of a Harley dresser, and more. And there's another shelf up there you can't see.





Shelf over/above the garage door. Use that dead space!



24" L-shaped shelves along 2 walls.



All down that wall over the workbench.



Along the other wall too.

Looks like our 3 car shop. Outside of the gorilla racks, everything is on wheels. All the misc items, is why we have out buildings.

[Irving]

I know my garage floor slopes, and I don't think a lot of other stuff in the house is real square. I'm only concerned about squaring stuff, because the first thing I built this year was a cat tower. Same basic concept for a box filled with sand as the base on each side. Everything was fine until I attached the boxes to the center post. An hour and 1.5" of shims later and the thing can finally stand up and pass for level in the dark.

Here is the garage now:



Step one: Randomly run into a guy with a truck and get him to get rid of the stove. You guys see my work bench? Me either. First two shelves will replace the metal one on the left and the wooden one on the right in this picture. Next will be similarly tall shelves where the water is at the end of the garage. Finally will be long, low shelves in between to fit under the windows.

[Irving]

Okay, finished (mostly) one of the shelves. Updated the first post with pictures.

[rbeau30]

Irving, off topic... but wondering where you get your 2-liter bottle crates. You can PM me if you don't want to reply here.

[Irving]

I was delivering pizza and the company I worked for switched contracts from Coke to Pepsi and the Coke guys never came and picked them up.
Thanks for reminding me, I forgot I wanted to check how those racks fit on that shelf since I plan to build identical shelves for each of those corners.
This is three "crates" on the shortest shelf. Each crate holds eight 2-liter bottles.

[Irving]

Bump for asking what to buy to attach to the wall. I plan on going after work and just asking, but if there is a superior product that they might not recommend, I'd like to know. Thanks.

[Great-Kazoo]

I was delivering pizza and the company I worked for switched contracts from Coke to Pepsi and the Coke guys never came and picked them up.
Thanks for reminding me, I forgot I wanted to check how those racks fit on that shelf since I plan to build identical shelves for each of those corners.
This is three "crates" on the shortest shelf. Each crate holds eight 2-liter bottles.

That one of the new MJ lunch trucks