Garage Shelves

[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).

[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.

[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

[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.

[hghclsswhitetrsh]

Looks like you need a garage sale not garage shelves.

[Irving]

Looks like you need a garage sale not garage shelves.

I'll give you first dibs on the bottled water in the 2 liters. The attic is definitely going to be sorted through this spring.

[hghclsswhitetrsh]

I'll give you first dibs on the bottled water in the 2 liters. The attic is definitely going to be sorted through this spring.

Nah I want that opened coors light bottle. On a serious note I will be following this thread closely for idears.