Anyone can recommend a design, system or idea of how to fill the back wall with shelving space where I can store the various boxes and bin bags of stuff I have? I was thinking something that can be screwed directly onto the wall would be most compact and would avoid issues of having bulky freestanding shelfs to align.
After years of piling up stuff in the garage and tripping over stuff, I'm finally reaching the end of my patience and looking to throw out a lot and organise the rest. I wanted to convert the whole back wall into shelf space for storage. The back wall is approx 4m wide and 2m high.
In case you do end up going with standing shelves, we have some of these large plastic “regals” in our storage area and they are remarkably sturdy. With this one in the link, each shelf can hold up to 70 kgs:
https://www.jumbo.ch/de/de/maschinen…%7cP2P_product
There are other sizes as well. The shelves are nice and deep, too, and can hold storage bins.
I’ve actually found these plastic shelves to be more sturdy than the metal ones usually are. The metal ones usually tilt and sway really easily. If I remember correctly, I think these plastic ones also come with straps that allow you to secure them to the wall, if you want (otherwise, you can just buy the strap kits).
We also have a similar one and is very sturdy. Another thing we are happy with are the ones with wheels from Amazon. If your items are not very heavy and can use more of depth towards the wall they are very useful. We have put them as library stile so you can move them around and store quite a lot of stuff.
We have had the Ivar system from IKEA for years both in the pantry and cellar. I like that it’s extendible and modulablenin pretty much any form. Also has loads of accessories, different depths etc. Compatible with the Samla boxes for storage.
Most important accessory of IVAR shelf is the metal grills for wine storage. 8 bottles per row
Back to OP's question, stop by a brocki and check the options. Lots of used furniture at low price including shelves.
Hi PhilMCR, your title says, Economical … so check ricardo, as a quick look, I found a couple of industrial shelve, should be very strong.
https://www.ricardo.ch/de/a/erweiter…al-1212549034/
And in Basel region !!
Good luck with the tidy up !!
Economical, but incredibly strong:
Use wall brackets with Schaltafel planks. Up to 3m long or use two 2m ones to give you your four meters. They are also a decent depth of 0.5m.
Wall brackets (You can find the the ones most suitable)
L Brackets .
Get the ones with a hole so you can screw the underside of the planks into the brackets for safety.
I used what Tom suggested in my garage.
For my 4m high cellar, I use these as you can order tall ones:
https://regaly.ch/epages/175390.sf/d…ts/LAG001-0086
Cheapest option is to buy four of these:
https://www.galaxus.ch/de/s4/product…B&gclsrc=aw.ds
Interesting. Are these the things used for making forms during the pouring of concrete? It's 27mm thick, but even then, can it really support a 2 meter span?! Maybe I'd need to align 3 brackets to hold it.
For whatever it's worth, we have these all over our basement; they're much stronger than you'd think. We attached them to the walls and shimmed them for extra stability.
Ain't pretty though.
We have them all along the back wall of our garage and in the atelier in our basement.
They are brilliant and as you say are very strong, we’ve had ours for a few years now.
We use something similar in the cellar and workshop. Easy peasy to install, easy to customize to your needs.
Ours have two brackets for a 2m span.
The garage came with them. If I was doing it myself I'd use three brackets but even with two and quite a heavy load, there's no bowing.
The planks are PU coated too which means they are easy to wipe down.
Thanks. It looks like a good option. Quite a steep delivery charge, though!
The wheels are a factor. We've found that they're a tremendous advantage and I wouldn't go for a fixed, non-wheely system again, at least for some of the storage space. Handy to bring out that stack of boxes, helpful to move them across the room, easy to lean something (perhaps even a similar wheely stack) up against them behind the stack and still have it accessible, useful to swing it around to see what's in the back of any semi-transparent boxes.
Have a look on the auction sites for industrial ones in metal, they are heavy, exceptionally solid and you'll only buy them once !
I can highly highly recommend Errex .
They make metal industrial shelves for warehouse storage, but also sell small quantities for household and office use. The system isn’t too expensive and is extremely strong while also looking really good - nice industrial design. You can find their shelves in an architect’s office, a family’s apartment or in a huge industrial storage facility.
You can either collect the elements in Rumlang or have it delivered. It isn’t too difficult to assemble.
Quite a lot of Errex products on Tutti at the moment:
https://www.tutti.ch/de/q/suche/Ak6V…=1&query=errex
OK. I went with Tom's suggestion.
Now for round 2 of the question: Anyone got a good option for storage crates that will fit these 50cm deep shelves? I guess I'm looking for something in the region of 50 deep, 40 wide. With a decent material that is not going to break easily (my wife bought some plastic boxes that all turned into trash after just a few weeks of punishment).
Since there's 16 linear meters of storage. Assuming they are 40 wide, that is 40 boxes.
Having seen boxes available at Jumbo for 50 Fr. so 2’000 Fr. for 40x maybe I’ll just go with double-walled cardboard cartons!