I am going to be putting a new shed in the backyard. Will be 6.8m long by 3.2m wide and 2.5m high to the eaves.
I've been trying to find the 'best' racking solution that's a bit more sturdy that the OzB usual Pinnacle and the likes.
Have seen the Rack It systems but wanted to see if anyone else has experience in another brand or system.
Search the forums but only things I could find were quite old and probably outdated.
Wanted something more permanent that I could bolt into the ground. Benches, drawers, shelves etc etc
I've been using the racking from Dataworld for over seven years now. They kind of feel flimsy at first when you put the shelves together but I've had no issues with them and they're holding lots of heavy items. They're modular and at a very good price.
If you want to go completely overboard, used dexion pallet racking shows up at auctions fairly regularly. I picked up a few meters of it because it was cheap and it's ridiculously over engineered for the few hundred kg I have on it, but it's absolutely rock solid.
You won't get a bunch of accessories like draws, etc. but it's solid enough that you can easily bolt or weld on frames, slides, etc. to DIY it or just pick up a couple of ikea bedside tables and sit them on a shelf.
Custom built…
If you want working storage rather than decorative, and are even slightly handy, used pallet racking is the only go
1. Uprights and beams must be the same manufacturer
2. You can cut them down to suit heights, esp side to side in shed.
3. You can install MDF type sheets, up to a metre wide 10-30mm thick(20 prob best), and or buy them cut to your specs
4. You storage space is Length x Width x No. of shelves.
So one shelf of a Bunnings type solution might give you 2Mt x 0.5Mt.= 1SQ MT
Racking at 2Mt x 1mt = 2SqMt. And when it comes down to it, it is only about storage space. Give it 10 years, and you will love the decision you made.
5. Paint it if looks is important
6. Include a working shelf and backboard, at a level that works for you, and a suitable height to put up a tool wall if you like.
Facebok marketplace is good for this stuff. It does not need Ebay assurances because it is what it is.
Agree, I have palette racking on my rear garage wall, replace my storage unit that kept increasing every 9 months.
I agree, for a single shelf for little things , the $59 4 tier shit is fine - for a full on shed of stuff , do it once, cry once.
My work shed at home also uses old pallet racking , still holding up fine nearly 15 years later.
Yeah there's no way I'm going for the 4 tier cheap stuff. Would like this to be done once lol
I think I'll keep an eye on FB for some pallet racking. Like you said, can always paint, which I think I would do. I want it to be a shed but with cross functionality. Will be insulating to eventually move my WFH office down there once more younglings come along
Facebook market place You'll get the same stuff if not better at a 1/4 of the price of Bunnings brand new.
Might keep an eye on FBMP
Plus one for this. Businesses often offload quality stuff.
Whatever fits in the space the best to maximise every part of the wall. I managed to get a 2.4m x 2.4m x 0.6m heavy duty shelving unit from a local place, and it fits almost millimetre perfect into the space I wanted it for - no dead/lost space.
As this wasnt enough shelving, the other space I had earmarked was an odd measurement and none of the standard type shelving suppliers had anything that would make the most of the space without having a dead space next to it - so I made some custom shelving with 90x45 timbers and yellowtongue (as one rip gave exactly the shelving width I needed) to exactly fit the space and have exactly the right dimensions for what I want to store in it, and its beyond rock solid. Overkill, but it looks the goods and is solid as all hell.
Great work
But what's this word "Exactly"
I'd just buy the Bunnings all-metal Pinnacle shelving. It isn't particularly expensive, and decent quality. Depends what you want to store on it? It works great for power tools, garden tools, pots, etc but maybe not much use if you want to keep bags of concrete on it