How To Build Storage Shelves | Easy BuildPosted by Balling Haley on April 25th, 2021 Hey guys and Scott with everyday home repairs and the project for today is how to build a massive shelf like the one behind me. This shelf is eight foot tall, eight foot wide and two foot deep and the catch here is. I did this full project under $ 100 and I also did not use my own saw, so I had all the pieces ready to go when I got back from Home Depot and all I had to do was screw everything together. If that's a project, you're looking to do stay tuned and I'll go through all the details, so we arrived at the home-improvement store and if you're comfortable with selecting your lumber, you can go ahead and jump to the 4-minute mark where we'll start the build you're. Looking for straight boards, without any bark without any knots, without any splits and the better, you do selecting your lumber, the easier it's gon na be when you get back and start to build your project. Everything will just go to bed and go together a lot better. So once we get our 2x4 selected, we're gon na jump over and grab two sheets of the OSB half inch plywood, and then we got all of the two by fours and the OSB, and now we're ready to leverage the saw the radial arm saw, which the Nice thing here is: this: is industrial grade they're able to stack four two by fours all at once? They put a stop in place and then that stop is gon na be at the distance for which you've requested your two by fours cut. So they can cut through these and literally about five times. The rate that I could do with a chop saw at home and I don't have any of the mess. Then they have the specific saw that can cut or rip your OSB, so both of those sheets you're, just gon na get cut or ripped down to two foot sections and then here's everything and the results of all the different 2x4 is being cut to the 20 Inch lengths and the 21 inch lengths and the two and the plywood so for the complete list of this build, go ahead and look down in the description and a wide everything out all right. So I got everything back to the house and about ready to jump in overall having them do all the cuts. So I do have a chop saw. I can do most. These cuts pretty much all the cuts at home. My truck I can, I can bring the you know full sheets of plywood, but really trying to think through the normal homeowner midsize SUV, even a full-size car, with like a 4060 split rear seat and the way that we approach this. Where you have the sheets of plywood that are two foot by eight foot long, you have your two by fours and then you have all your cut components for the shelves and then also the uprights. You can kind of fit it in any of those midsize SUV. Full-Size SUVs easily or a car, so you don't need a truck. You can go to Home Depot Lowe's or your local home improvement store. You can have a plan of attack, have all your cuts laid out and then have them. Do that one caution I would say to you is: have them cut? Let'S say one of your two by fours and then measure that to make sure it's the length you want, it's gon na be very common that they're going to go ahead and knock through all those cuts and they didn't take the blade width into consideration or they're. Just slightly off so that could cause you issues when you get back home, so go ahead, get that first piece make sure it's to your your lengths, mine were 20 inches and 21 inches for the two by fours. So when you get home, everything goes together smoothly. So, first that will jump in and start to build out the shelves so for the whole project. I use two and three quarter: general construction, screws and those will be with a star bit and that's t25 size before really getting into the shelves. I did batch a lot of the small repetitive tasks, for instance like this drilling the two holes in each of the ends of the eight two by fours. That'S two of the 8-foot section, two by fours for all four of the shelves. Also, I had taking the screws and screwed them in about an inch into the outside boards. All the way, along the line to give myself just a head start when I'm putting the cross members in you notice on the corners, I was using an ur win' clamp and that clamp has a special corner adapter on it. So you can fit your pieces of 2x4 together, you can make sure they're flush at the top and then you can secure them with this clamp. It'S super handy. I actually bought this for the project and, like all the other things, this will be in the description. If you want a reference on exactly what I used one bonus part of this, it has a hole on the side, so you can easily put your screws in place while the clamp is on in secure okay, so the ends are all together, and now we have The three middle cross sections I had marked out 24 inches, 48 inches and 72 inches. I marked those out on the three-and-a-half inch side of the tube by force and also on the one-and-a-half inch top and bottom. So it's easy for me to align those cross members up, get them in the correct spacing. I did all three of the cross members on one side and then I flipped over and secured in the rest of the three cross members. Take your time make sure the top and bottom are at the same measurement, so you're not kind of cockeyed in there. The more you take your time here, the better everything will turn out. As you start to put together the shelves in the next step, so build out all four of these shelves so they'll be ready to go and then we'll move on to securing the twenty inch piece of 2x4 to each of the six legs. Once you get this completed, then you'll be ready to kind of stand. Everything up and start to have the shelf take shape. So I got my first shelf and then the six different legs and I'm gon na position, the four outside legs first and the way I'll do that without securing them immediately is I'll, just use those four or wind clamps that I have and then this will make Sure everything's tight and then I can go back through and take a little bit more time, lining everything up and then sinking one screw per leg and then per shelf. So you can use a level and make sure everything is perpendicular to the Shelf. But you do have a little forgiveness on this first one because you're only using one screw per leg so with the second shelf. That'S when you really want to take your time, use that level and make get it as close as possible to perpendicular to the shelves. So then, when you get to the last shelf, you don't have a gap, that's starting to form in any one of your six legs, so get all six of them in position here and then once we have them secure and grab a piece of plywood. It'S two foot wide and then put that in place. So now we'll do the same three set of steps to fill out the rest of our shelves. We'Ll take the 20 inch two by fours and we'll secure them with two screws to each of the legs, and then this is going to give us our next structure to set the shelf on top of just make sure everything is lined up. And then the sides are flush as you sink both of those screws in then, once you get all six of them in place, you'll grab your shelf and get in the center and lift it up positioning the one side on top of the supports, and then hopefully, If everything's, measured correctly and lined up, it will be easy to just set right into place, make sure both of your sides are watch him, especially with the second. This is the third shelf, but with the second shelf, you're gon na. Take your time lining up your legs as well, then just take your plywood bring it in and I just let my plywood sit on top. I did not secure the plywood with any additional screws and then for the middle steps I just placed. Those 20 inch supports right on top of the plywood, and then the supports are what are actually secured to each of the legs. Okay and now I've got the top shelf on with the OSB and the Shelf is in place. Let'S recap: a few of the different parts of the design, so you got your 20 inch supports 20 inch 2x4. That then has two screws in the outside leg and then that's gon na really hold all the weight on that top shelf. The Shelf is attached with one screw to the outside leg, but really that's just help line everything up. All the structure and all the load will be carried by these 20 inch members. Your 21 inch cross members, which you'll have three of those on each of your shelf, and then I did two screws on each of those. One thing to take time is especially on shelf number two, so you're going to attach those legs like I had shown you and then you really need to use your level in both directions before you put that middle screw in you want to make sure you're totally Level in both directions, if you do not do this, you'll really start to lean out or fore-and-aft. When you get to your top shelf, obviously a distance there will magnify any small angle that you're off lower it's just gon na get worse and worse as you go up, but very satisfied a good project and ready to start stacking some stuff. Alright, we'll call the day the shelf is in place and fully built out and all in I was looking at about four hours and that does include going home and getting the materials getting them back and then starting to build everything out from there. The Shelf is extremely sturdy and serves our purposes perfectly for just stacking totes and getting a little bit more organized around the house. If you think this is going to help you out for your project, go ahead and look down in the description below and you'll see. All the links to the tools and also a full build list that we used. 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