DIY Garage Shelves for Storage | Cheap Wall Mounted - Hanging Wood Shelf 1-Day Build

Описание: If you build this affordable 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐃𝐈𝐘 𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐟, there is a nine in ten chance that your wife will make you build another one!

Hello YouTube, how is everyone doing? JC here with the Cuban Redneck DIY channel where we do things cheaply, just because we can! If you are a subscriber, you already know, my 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞 is coming along pretty nicely. However, my wife's corner of the garage needs a little help. Somehow, over the holidays, the number of holiday decorations bins grew from four to six, and I have decided to do something about it! No problem, right! Let's go over to Home Depot or Lowe's, pick up some ¾" plywood, a few 2X4s, and build ourselves some garage shelves! Not so fast! I have no idea if you have been shopping for plywood or just wood in general, but the prices are out of control. On average, a 4X8 sheet of plywood is up anywhere from $15 to $30. The 2X4 sheets of 3/4-in Lauan, which I have used for so many DIY projects and paid around $10 last summer, are now costing over $17! Besides, I have never been a fan of bulky garage shelves, if you know what I mean.

While strolling the junk wood aisle at Lowe's, I ran into a pile of 1X3 and 1X2 white pine boards fur strips. While browsing, a picture of a yacht swimming platform popped into my head. The reason for that is that I recently helped my friend Ron rebuild the teak swimming platform in the back of his 42' Hatteras, and the place where we picked up the material had a pile just like that; teak, of course, not white pine! With that image so clear in my head, I asked myself if I could make a super cheap garage shelf using these white pine boards and fur strips! Why not! Yacht swimming platforms are super strong and hold a ton of weight!

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If you are not familiar with a boat reak swimming platform, it is nothing more than multiple strips of wood joined together, leaving voids on every other board for the water to escape. That is the same concept that I am adopting. I picked up five 2.5" X1" X8' white pine boards, as well as three 1" X2" X8' fur strips at the cost of just over $18! Will the pine hold the weight, I am not sure, but for $18 versus $90 for a sheet of plywood, I was willing to try!

The space for my garage shelves is a hair over seven feet. So I started by trimming all the boards to length! Know that carpenters and professional woodworkers call this type of wood junk wood for a reason. These boards are going to be warped and bend! You may have to go through the entire pile to find a few good pieces. Although I did, they still had a little bit of a twist here and there. I ended up forcing the five 2.5" X1" X8' boards into place and driving several 3.5" drywall screws along the length to keep them in place and to be able to achieve somewhat of the consistent cut across all boards. After cutting them to size, I used the scraps to build the brackets to hold my garage shelves. I also cut one of the four strips into 3-inch pieces for my spacers between the boards. I then trace the fur strips' profile into one of the cut off from the 2.5" panels. I carved the shape with the jigsaw and added a rib to create a T-beam and further support.

I then place all the boards and the spacers on top of my patio table to figure out the over width. You may ask yourself why not just measure it? Let's just say that finding two of these white pine boards of the same size can be a challenge. The easiest way to get an accurate measurement is to play them down and measure. Now that we know the overall width of the garage shelf, we can cut the stringers. These are the pieces that hold the boards together. With all of the pieces cut it is time for assembly. Putting together these garage shelves is as easy as putting together Legos. Start with the backboard, attach that to the stringer, put a row of spacers, then another board, and so on.

I finished my garage shelves with a simple satin clear coat, but here is one place where you can get creative. The installation is pretty straightforward; I used Tapcon's (concrete screws) just because I had them, but if you have to buy them and don't have a hammer drill, plugs may be a better solution, although the weight load may be compromised a little. I ended up loading over 100 lbs on the garage shelves, and they did not budge! Overall I have to say that for the money, I don't think you can build a cheaper garage shelf if you try it! As far as looks are concerned, I think we can all agree that your ordinary DIY plywood and 2X4 garage shelves don't stand a chance!

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