[57north-discuss] Shelf wall

[Tom Jones]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 11:34:04PM +0000, Robert McWilliam wrote:
> I'm thinking to make ladder style uprights like the ones on the
> shelves I made previously and link them with 2x3s¹.  I'm thinking 2
> 2x3s per "shelf"  - this wouldn't actually be  a shelf but is cheaper
> than any of the sheet material options and will be pretty strong.
> It'll work fine for putting boxes on (so long as the bottom of the box
> can support its contents in the bit between the 2 2x3s) and we can put
> sheet material on bits of it if we want actual shelves for anything
> that needs it.
> 
> For height: I'm thinking to just use full 2.4m 2x3s for the uprights
> which will give about a 6cm gap  to the ceiling above them. 
> 
> To go from the pillar to the east wall (where it bumps into the room
> around the stairwell/cupboards/kitchen bit) would work with 5 uprights
> giving 3 1.2ish² m bays and one 2.4ish m bay. This'll take 35 2x3s for
> a total of £95.90. That's with 4 shelves per bay, about the same pitch
> as the tall set from the last ones I made, would be another 1.5 2x3s
> per shelf per 1.2m bay to have more shelves.  
> 
> I'm thinking to put fabric on the outside (of the hackspace) side of
> the shelf wall to give a clean look to the rest of the room (rather
> than the collection of junk look of seeing into the hackspace bit of
> the room). I think the cheapest way to get enough fabric to cover that
> is 2 super king size sheets. ASDA has them for £9 each³ with a choice
> of grey, white, cream or pink.
> 
> So total of £113.90 for this section - probably ~£125 to give some
> money to cover screws and glue. I'm thinking make this section first
> and we can then decide if the same approach is what we want for the
> other bits or if we want to do something different. 
> 
> Would want to cover about twice that distance for the other side
> coming across from the windows so ball park would be twice as much for
> that section. But I'm thinking that would be more shelves than we
> actually need so should probably do some other stuff with some of the
> bays on the other side (wood (or other long thin stuff) rack, some
> hooks for hanging stuff, any other ideas?) 
> 
> I'm away this weekend so was planning to build this the following
> weekend (22nd and 23rd) if the rest of you think this is a good plan
> and directors approve of the spending. Some help then would be
> appreciated (or if anyone wants to get going before then: even
> better). 
> 
> Robert
> 
> ¹ This time I've actually bothered to look up the dimensions of a 2x3
> and wikipedia has them within a mm of what B&Q list these as so I
> think I can call them 2x3s.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumber#North_American_softwoods
> 
> ² The "ish" is because there will be some overlap between the shelf components of adjacent bays and I'm planning to tweak that to fill the gap between the pillar and the wall.
> 

To be clear, you are asking for £250 to build shelving walls across the
width of the building?

- [tj]