Today we’ll learn to build a set of shelves for your garage. To get started I’m going to be on my miter saw station where I’m gonna cut off all two backboards.
Let’s start the assembly process. The first thing I’m going to do is start by taking two 2×4 and then take 14 in. pieces and I’m just gonna hang them up on the ceiling.
That should be a good start. I’m going to be using these 3 1/2 in. construction-grade screws so there’s supposed to be a little bit more durable. That way it’s gonna anchor to the wall just a little bit better.
Now before I start hanging the 2×4 up on the wall, I want to make one mention of one thing and that is I already went ahead and mark my top and bottom shelf lines as well as the lines on the ceiling and I also went ahead and take a stud finder and found all the studs and mark everything. Now you want to do the same exact process.
It might be a little bit different for your garage depending on the dimensions but I think we’re all set to start hanging those up on the wall and you want to make sure you’re getting those into studs.
Otherwise, it is just going into drywall it’s not going to be anchored to anything. Now with the 2×4 attached to the ceiling, I can go ahead and start attaching my 48 in. brace pieces to the 2×4.
Now, with my 2×4 hung up all on the ceiling, I’m all set to start building the boxes that are gonna make up the shelves. The only thing is you don’t want to add the plywood quite yet, you want to go ahead and hang these up first before you do that otherwise, you won’t be able to easily hang it up on the wall.
With all my boxes framed out, I can go ahead and start hanging these up on the wall. It’s gonna be a good idea to get a few friends to hold these up while you’re screwing everything in place. With that last board screwed in on the side, that wraps it up for this project.
The main reason I opted for shelves that hang up on the wall rather than the ones to sit on the ground was that, with the ones that hang up on the wall I’m able to get all the way up and use all the top of the wall space but yet I still have all this ground space here, Brackins store stuff like lawnmowers maybe my wooden go-kart, a few bikes or something I’m just able to use all this space and then the top half is where I can just store the stuff that I don’t really need for the top shop.
I’ll probably be storing long-term stuff in the middle or on the bottom shelf, stuff that I need to access a little bit more often.