How to Build Garage Shelves | The Best Way!!

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[bkipad]

Your parents must be proud of such an industrious son, good job. I appreciate your videos

[nixworld]

It's really great to see an ambitious young handyman doing and teaching. Thank you for a very well produced video. I'll be taking some of your ideas and modifying for my own situation.

[MrStingray]

Not hating here Eric .. Great job for light weight storage only.  I'm a Master craftsman with over fifty years professional  experience.  Just one thing to keep in mind in your future designs and with your ability will be some great ones for sure.  A very old master craftsman I worked with as a apprentice told me that holds true today as it did a 100 years ago. Fasteners (Nails, bolts, screws etc) are not part of the structure they only hold the structural members together that take the load. Fasteners have tremendous shear strength but will fail with time in pull or tensile strength .. not hating Eric just passing on what hundreds and hundreds of Craftsmen have learned in the pasts.  With simple 45deg dia. bracing from a ledger on the wall to the top plate would transfer the load from the fasteners to the ledger and would quadruple the load rating. Great job Eric.

[barryzimmerman]

Built a version of this project. It turned out great! Now we can park two cars in garage! Thanks, keep them coming!

[dblphotography]

Great job Eric. This is the best version of garage shelves I have seen. May have to do the same in my garage to reclaim some much needed space.

[kevinm]

Very nice work and humble attitude. I gave a thumbs up.

[garycottreau]

Great idea. It is really nice to have a place to store things and its out of the way too. Best of both worlds. Great job.

[joshuasmith]

Great video, good inspiration for all of us with limited garage space!

[SteveCarmichael]

Well done Eric! Those will free up a lot of floor space. I might be doing something similar soon.

[mitocaf]

I just did mine, but I painted the garage first then after I got done with the shelves we painted them, and let me tell you, they look awesome, but I didn’t do doubles like you, I just did the top one with larger gap. But still good work. TY for the ideas..!! New subscriber right here.

[berniceyw]

What an awesome project, thank you for sharing!

[tubongpuroksaranay]

Dude, thats a sweet spot for your miter station because of those two windows. Perfect!

[anthonygehman]

Hey man good job! You should look into making a corner jig for making those boxes. It would be faster and square its always nice to have the surface of drop into the frame rather than sit on top as well. Just a couple suggestions but again great work.

[listendeeper]

Be careful with this project. It is very important to assure the overhead load tension applied to the ceiling will suffice. Is the framing that is fastened to the ceiling running perpendicular to the above joists or parallel? If parallel, then the 2x4 is attached to only 1 overhead joist. This is a constant load, and if excessive weight is involved, creeping can and will occur. You do not want to ruin a vehicle, a garage door, or anything beneath this structure. Shear strength of fasteners also needs consideration here. Angle bracing beneath can also keep floor area clear of support posts. It does look nice.

[uwithorwithoutyou]

'Get some friends to help you'
*uses plank of wood*

Great video as always!

[american_chevy]

I'm not that handy at all. but when I watch YouTube videos I seem to always have a successful build.
your video is exactly what u want to do with my garage. thank you!

[Robert.E.Edmondson]

A good way to build hanging utility shelving is to use lengths of threaded rod secured at the ceiling and passed through holes in the shelves. Nuts and washers enable adjustment of the shelf spacing. For floor mounted utility shelving, again use threaded rod, but run rods through PVC pipe spacers between shelves. Nuts and washers top and bottom pull everything rigidly together. Simple. Strong. Inexpensive.

[MarkH]

I am totally down with this. I started on my townhome shop build today, and want to offer a handyman service in our complex. This is a wonderful candidate.

[jerrybobteasdale]

I built similar. For a lot of the components, you can rip the 2x4's into 2x2's. Not every part has to be built so heavy. I hung my front vertical pieces like you did, but the 2 screws near the top edge of the vertical 2x4 don't seem like enough strength to hang everything from. I reinforced that. If I were to do it over, I'd rig chains and eyebolts, or a few U-bolts. Or maybe run those top screws thru perforated metal.

[MrBhampson]

This would be incredible with "Dam it feels good to be a gangster" as the soundtrack!