Shelves in the garage with their own hands

It is well known that in a modern garage building, besides the car itself, it is customary to store a large amount of special tools, auxiliary equipment and other materials.

To accommodate all of these items necessary for servicing a car, special racks or shelves should be provided, the manufacture of which should be taken care of in advance. In our review we will try to talk about how to make racks in the garage of various materials, as well as consider some of the nuances of the organization of work on the manufacture and collection of shelves.

Types of designs

Various options for the manufacture of racks for the garage involve the use for their arrangement of structures of the following type;

• metal;
• designs from wood materials;
• combined (metal frame plus wooden shelves).

In addition, there is a difference in the way they are installed and there are, in accordance with this, the following versions:

1. Prefabricated metal structures that are mounted at an arbitrary height convenient for you and fixed on the walls with the help of special fixing angles (using bolts and nuts). Caracas for the shelves of this type can serve as racks of perforated metal profile.
2. Stationary structures, the frame of which is mounted from solid horizontal racks attached to the four vertical posts. Structures of this type are able to withstand a large load, which in this embodiment is completely transferred to the floor. As a rule, metal blanks serve as the starting material for such racks, but if the load on the shelves is small, you can use wooden materials for their arrangement.
3. It is possible to use mobile structures equipped with special rollers, thanks to which they can be moved to any place convenient for you. Unfortunately, structures of this type have certain restrictions on the load.
4. And finally, you can equip hinged shelves, suspended directly under the ceiling at a height convenient for the owner of the garage. To arrange such a construction, it will be necessary to prepare special fasteners that are freely sold in any building materials store.

We make shelves by yourself

Like working with any other type of construction, self-production of shelves in the garage should begin with drawing up a sketch in which their location should be noted and all characteristic dimensions should be indicated. Optimal is the option of placing shelves along one of the walls, freed from all unnecessary items and things.

The depth of the racks and the distance between the contours is chosen based on the maximum size of the items that are supposed to be stored on them. The distance between the two lower shelves should be chosen to calculate the possibility of storing tires and jerrycans on them.

Metal shelves

Before arranging metal shelves in the garage, you will have to prepare for them a robust frame made from standard corner blanks. Fastening it to the racks is made by welding or by conventional bolting.

In the second case, you will have to prepare a whole system of holes, designed so that in the future you can adjust the shelf height. All metal components of the structure (rack and frame) will need to be primed, which will provide them with reliable corrosion protection. As a material laid in a frame structure, one can use either a regular board, or a chipboard or multilayered plywood. To fix them on the metal frame is best to use conventional screws.

To increase the structural strength of the frame, it can additionally be fixed on the wall (or ceiling) of the garage with the help of special brackets.

Wood shelves

If you want to save on the material, you can make a racking design completely from wooden blanks. You can choose a standard bar with a cross section of at least 10 × 10 cm as racks, and use a board or sheets of 1.5–2.5 cm thick for the shelves.

You should always remember that the load-carrying capacity of the wood structure is noticeably lower than that of its metal counterpart. In addition, such racks are much more dangerous to use because they are made of flammable materials.

Video

In this video in an accelerated pace shown the manufacture of wooden shelves.