The box said the shelves are chemical resistant. I'm taking that with a grain of salt and figured that by the time I move into a bigger garage I'll just replace them with some 3/8" plywood or thicker MDF.
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Here's mine in the corner of my garage.
I cleaned out 3 storage units/and the entire office at Global, after 10 years of banker's boxes full of files sitting on them and being taken on and off, the mdf/steel ones were all rickety while the more heavy duty all steel ones were still going strong.
But like brett said im sure they are fine for a couple of years.
For a $75 shelf I figured I could make decent shelves when it becomes necessary.
Is the top half separate from the bottom? That is what the problem was on most of them.
nice BDR, that's exactly what I want to build, but twice as long
the last little shelving unit I built like that I definitely built the bottom shelf too low, I think next time I am going to go for 2 inches taller than a 5-gal bucket
anit-grav plating???
I keel myself. http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f1.../chairfall.gif
Water damage. I used to have my ammo stash sitting on the floor of my mom's water heater closet at her house (its the entire area under a staircase so there's plenty of room). It has a bare concrete floor but after a year or so I noticed that the boxes of my bottom layer of ammo were sticking to the floor like they had gotten wet, but as far as I know there hadnt been any standing water down there. I guess it was just condensation or something but since I elevate the ammo off the floor and onto shelves it hasnt been a problem since.
I guess it just depends on what you're using the shelves for. In my case it didn't make sense since all I'm storing is car parts/junk.
I had the same thing happen with ammo once, though it didn't help it was next to the wall for the water heater.
I have one of the metal / particle board shelves from Lowes that works good. For the heavy / large items I have shelves made out of 1 1/2" gal. pipe. with 3/4" plywood (gift from El Paso).
finally got a pic of the shelves I built for my basement. I like this design, the plywood adds a lot of rigidity
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_BtG9ElGqcd4/SY...6/IMG_0671.jpg