Greetings and Salutations...

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 14:58:11 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:

Strange as it sounds, I'm having a devil of a time finding plans for some
basic floorstanding garage shelves. Spacing between shelves needs to be big
enough to store medium-sized U-Haul boxes and other big stuff, and I don't
care how ugly they are, as long as they're strong. Screw assembly is
preferable to nails, because I'll be moving within the next couple of years
and would like to be able to disassemble them. Can anyone provide a web
link, or the name & author of a book that's useful? My public library hasn't
been much help.
-Doug


The BORG sells metal brackets designed to connect 2x4s
together into shelf units. They are REALLY great. My brother in law
built several units and got a lot of his basement straghtened up.
Consists of a 2x4 upright, with the shelves spaced about 18" apart,
high enough to allow two standard record storage boxes to be stacked
on the shelf. Two is about the max, otherwise you can't get to stuff
easily.
he made them 4 shelves high, which works out to about 6'.
The length is 2x4 stock, and, he made them about 6' long. The
width is about 36' or so (the length of two of the document storage
boxes end to end.
We finished up by cutting 1/2" plywood into a shelf and
screwing it to the shelf supports.
Very quick, fairly cheap and amazingly strong.
Regards
Dave Mundt