Now that the loft is in, I've been waiting to put some shelving in to help organize the place. I have a TON of stuff in the garage, from go-karting to yard work stuff, and I simply don't have space in the lower level if I want to put a car in the garage (it was really really disorganized). This was the motivation to building the loft, which helped some, but I really needed to have some shelves up there to make good use of the space.
Matt helped me put up the shelves which have 20" brackets which EACH are capable of holding 1,000 lbs. I put 24" deep particle board on them as it was the cheapest thing I could find that had some stiffness. I'm pretty sure my boards will break before I get anywhere near that point, but in theory, I could hang a car off of each shelf. Actually, with five brackets on each shelf the load capacity is 5,000 lbs, which is WAY over the capacity of the particle board (and potentially my wall). Good thing I don't plan on using it.
The shelves are currently pretty full. The good thing is that they have pretty much removed everything that was on the main floor! You'll see what happened down there in a later post..
Matt helped me put up the shelves which have 20" brackets which EACH are capable of holding 1,000 lbs. I put 24" deep particle board on them as it was the cheapest thing I could find that had some stiffness. I'm pretty sure my boards will break before I get anywhere near that point, but in theory, I could hang a car off of each shelf. Actually, with five brackets on each shelf the load capacity is 5,000 lbs, which is WAY over the capacity of the particle board (and potentially my wall). Good thing I don't plan on using it.
The shelves are currently pretty full. The good thing is that they have pretty much removed everything that was on the main floor! You'll see what happened down there in a later post..
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