Installing My Garage Shelves
I have been waiting for this for a long time since my garage looks like a junkyard, well did before I installed my garage shelves to get it organized. It was quite a good amount of work that I had to put in to it but I did learn something from it. I made a few mistakes and that is stuff that I don’t want other people doing if they decide to install the shelves themselves, and that is why I am going to write a quick “how to” on installing shelves in your garage.
First off you are going to start planning. Make good plans on where you are going to put those shelves and how big you need them to be. Also make sure that it is possible to put them where you want then – there should be no wiring in the wall if you are going to attatch them to the wall, and no plumbing and airconditioning pipes going there. If there is you can probably work around them by cutting a matching hole in the shelves, for me there was no pipes so I did not have to worry about this.
The very next thing to think about are the tools that you are going to use. You don’t want to wake up durig the project that you don’t have all the tools that you need – that will drastically make your project longer. This happened to me, and I realised that I need a new saw to be able to cut the shelves in a proper angle. So if you have a garage which has weird angles and a concave ceiling then make sure that you prepare for everything. At the same time you should be thinking about the materials you are going to use. Many people go with metallic shelves since they are considered quite durable, but for me I did go with wooden ones, because of the fact that they are easy to handle. You can cut them in to shape and not worry about the durability going down. With metallic shelves there is the case they the sides are specially bent to give extra support to the shelf, so you can’t cut that. If you have pipes and stuff you are going to need to go with wooden shelves to be able to mold them in to your liking.
If you decide to get shelves that are standing on their own feet – instead of being attached to the wall, make sure that you assemble them correctly. Read the instructions carefully, since you can make big mistakes which might damage the shelves. If you misassemble them you are not going to get money back if they break.
Once you have your shelves ready, don’t overload them. Put the heaviest stuff on the bottom shelf, and stuff that you rarely use on the top shelf. That way you won’t constantly have to reach to the top and risk something falling on your head.
