Have a job to start and would like to confirm my choice of materials and sizes.
I've to build, in situ. some shelves to hold box files containing Architectural Drawings and notes. They're quite heavy and the brief is to get as many on the shelves as possible. The shelves are to be of slatted style, it's what the customer wants. They are to be screwed together to allow dismantling and removal/rebuilding if required.
Area is 2850mm floor to ceiling, 2550 wall to wall.
Shelf to hold the depth of the box spaced at the height of the box to get maximum stored. Box is 300mm H x 350mm W x 420mm D.
Using Slat shelving to full span wall to wall.
Plan is to use 2 base plates of 2 x 3 (PAR 50 x 75) and support the uprights on these, this will also spread the overall load across the joists.
I want to confirm the upright sizes, maximum span and sizes of slats and basically are my construction techniques correct.
Planning on 1" x 2" (PAR 25 x 50) uprights (2 of) at each end and centred at 1225mm. that would allow 3 boxes per shelf with approx. 43mm between box and upright or box and box.
Depth of shelf 450mm
Slats of 1" x 1 1/5" (PAR 25 x 38) say 4 slats spaced 100mm (or would you recommend 5 slats spaced at 65mm) span of slats 1225mm. Span broken by 1" x 1 1/5" front to back at approx. 400mm spacings.
At 1225mm 2 more 1" x 2" uprights and a 1" x 2" baton (front to back) to support the slats.
With a height of 2850mm to ceiling, hoping to get 8 lengths of shelves on the wall allowing storage of 48 boxes in total?
Would you recommend anything else? Have I estimated/sized the space I have to allow 48 boxes to be stored. I'd like confirmation on my measuring of the spacings and numbers of slats and risers. Knock yourselves out
