I have another shelving project planned.
I have bought these six foot tall storage shelves I use in my garage/cave. They are quite modular and easy to halve or double.
I have halved some and added to the top of all the ones I have installed to extend the tippy top to nine feet high. Leaving me about a foot and a half above, before the ceiling.
In doing this, I have also removed two walls worth of wire shelves, which were installed with plastic wall anchors.
My plan is to take the wire shelves up top, attic, and using actual metal wire supports, cut them to size, install them between studs up top for organizing things like decorations Wife and Daughter like to play with.
One side is theirs, other side is full of my stuff.
I believe if installed with hard man forethought, they will work fine.
Best part of this idea; no laddering!
I mean, except for getting my tools up there again.
I knew there would be some weight up there, so one of the first things I did when we moved in was to go up with a half bucket of 12in construction screws I had on hand from another project and reinforce all the joints of the trusses where those silly flat plates were nailed in.
I had one arm in a cast, but running big screws in is something I've done a lot of in the past, while doing some cool installs of sound gear.
I don't know if it helped, but I feel better knowing all that weight is not depending upon stamped steel, nailed in plates, one per joint.
Anyway, more shelves!
I have bought these six foot tall storage shelves I use in my garage/cave. They are quite modular and easy to halve or double.
I have halved some and added to the top of all the ones I have installed to extend the tippy top to nine feet high. Leaving me about a foot and a half above, before the ceiling.
In doing this, I have also removed two walls worth of wire shelves, which were installed with plastic wall anchors.
My plan is to take the wire shelves up top, attic, and using actual metal wire supports, cut them to size, install them between studs up top for organizing things like decorations Wife and Daughter like to play with.
One side is theirs, other side is full of my stuff.
I believe if installed with hard man forethought, they will work fine.
Best part of this idea; no laddering!
I mean, except for getting my tools up there again.
I knew there would be some weight up there, so one of the first things I did when we moved in was to go up with a half bucket of 12in construction screws I had on hand from another project and reinforce all the joints of the trusses where those silly flat plates were nailed in.
I had one arm in a cast, but running big screws in is something I've done a lot of in the past, while doing some cool installs of sound gear.
I don't know if it helped, but I feel better knowing all that weight is not depending upon stamped steel, nailed in plates, one per joint.
Anyway, more shelves!
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