How to make a wooden shelf in the basement?

The basement for any person living in the private sector is not just an ordinary building, but a strategically important premise in the household. Especially if there is a large garden and a garden on the territory, then you can’t do without a cellar. But if you decide to equip it yourself, then remember that vegetables, fruits and stocks of homemade products should only be stored on shelves. This storage method involves the storage technology of various products in the winter. Shelves should be not only comfortable, but also reliable, durable. In this case, the room inside will look orderly and neat, and your crop will not deteriorate prematurely. In this article, we will examine in detail how to make a wooden shelf in the basement so that it meets all the requirements.

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Basement shelves overall dimensions

The main purpose of these structures is to store bottles and cans with blanks. Therefore, before making shelves in the cellar for cans, read the useful recommendations of specialists:

• Be sure to calculate how much space the banks will occupy, what weight they will approximately have. It will not be superfluous to take into account the dimensions of the drawers and pans, which will also be located on the shelves.

Important! The space between the structures must accommodate not only the products themselves in the container, but also to leave some more free space. Therefore, do not try to save too much, intending to squeeze all your workpieces into one rack.

• Remember that in addition to bottles and cans, they can store vegetables and fruits, which are not necessary for collecting in special containers - you can arrange them freely in bulk.
• Ready-made shelves can be placed in small sections and in the form of monolithic structures. If you have a high basement, above two meters, then you can place racks on both sides and at the end.

Important! So that you can freely move around the room, between them there must necessarily remain a passage with a width of not less than a meter.

• Between supports it is not necessary to make too large spans, otherwise - the shelves will bend under the weight of the stored products. It is better if there are more supports, and their number can be calculated based on the size of the basement itself.
• You can make collapsible racks or a monolithic wall. The first option is considered more advantageous, because it will be possible to disinfect and dry them before each laying of the harvested crop. Moreover, it is recommended to do this constantly before the start of winter.

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What material to choose for the manufacture of shelves?

Do you decide how to make shelves in the cellar with your own hands? Have you already chosen supplies? After all, this is incredibly important, since the durability, reliability and strength of the finished products depend on their quality. The most suitable for this purpose are the following.

Wood

This is already a traditional option and the most popular if you plan to make a shelf in the basement. But you need to remember that the tree is not very durable, especially if it is not treated with special means before use.

A tree of any breed is too susceptible to moisture, and this is very important, since in the basement the humidity level goes off scale. Such shelves quickly rot and break.

Important! Larch is considered the most resistant to the negative effects of moisture. Yes, of course, you need to tinker a lot with it to process it, but it will last a very long time.

Plywood or particleboard

Alternatively, if you want to make a wooden shelf in the basement, you can use plywood or chipboard to make shelves. That's just a lot of weight they can not withstand.

Important! Like wood, they are highly susceptible to moisture.

Metallic profile

This is the most durable and convenient material, although, of course, it is impossible to exclude the option that it will not rust. But before that, he will serve more than a dozen years.

Concrete

Shelves made of concrete can be considered centuries-old buildings. They are reliable, heavy and durable. The only thing is to make such a design difficult, but what a result!

Flat slate

It is used very rarely for such purposes, but it is still considered suitable for the manufacture of such products.

Brick

In the case of using this material, only supports are made of it. Additionally, metal holders are used.

Plastic

Even a novice will be able to independently make shelves of plastic, since this material is quite durable and light. But over the years, under the influence of temperature and humidity differences, plastic structures will collapse.

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Making basement shelves with your own hands

And now we will look at how to make racks in the basement from the most popular materials, that is, metal, concrete and wood. Despite the fact that not all of them differ in excellent characteristics and durability, it is with the use of these materials that professionals often make such designs.

Making wooden shelves for a cellar

Although wood is not at all friendly with moisture, it is considered the most pliable and simple material in terms of processing. In addition, after construction, everyone has unused boards and bars from which to make chic racks.

The technology for creating them looks like this:

1. We make supports. It is necessary to prepare fairly thick beams in order to turn them into support legs, and their width should not be less than 7 cm. Depending on how big the structure you want to make, and the number of supports is calculated.
2. Installation of cross bars. The supports will be mounted directly to the wall of the basement itself. Already on top of them you can install horizontal rails designed to support the shelves. For their manufacture, you need to take thinner boards, the main thing is that their thickness is not less than 4 cm.
3. Shelf fastening. You can make them from sheets of chipboard or durable wide boards. They will be attached to the crossbeams. But first you need to cut grooves into them, which will partially include the beams located vertically.

Important! Do not rush to immediately assemble the rack and fasten all the elements together, since first you need to handle all of them with a non-toxic and safe antiseptic.

Making concrete shelves in the basement

How to make shelves in the basement of the most reliable, durable and time-tested concrete? Of course, you will have to work hard, since this process is not fast, you will have to make every effort.

Important! To build concrete shelves in the basement, you need to prepare in advance thick metal bars, boards for the manufacture of formwork, reinforced mesh, the required amount of cement mortar.

Then clearly follow the instructions:

1. First you should drive the reinforcement into the cellar wall about 40-50 cm between adjacent bars in order to prepare the base on which we will place the shelves.
2. Then we make the formwork, on the wide board of the right size we nail the sides of the tree.
3. We fill concrete slabs by laying a reinforcing mesh and pouring concrete mortar into a finished wooden formwork. Once the plate has hardened, it will be possible to remove the formwork and install it in the reinforcement hammered into the wall.

Such a wonderful rack is guaranteed to last you more than one decade.

Do-it-yourself metal basement rack

To make such a structure in your cellar, you will have to pre-purchase as many metal corners as possible with sides at least 4 cm wide. Next, we do everything as follows:

1. Assembly of the frame. First you need to carefully verify the dimensions of the horizontal bars and vertical shelves, because at the next stages nothing can be fixed in case of a miss. Mark the points where the corners will connect, and weld the structure.
2. We fasten the shelves. On the finished metal base, you can attach shelves of any material that you have.

Important! In the absence of a welding machine, the metal frame can be fastened with special bolts. Moreover, they can be used to mount the structure to the wall.

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It doesn’t matter at all which material you choose and how you will produce the shelves. The main thing is that after such an internal arrangement and refinement, your cellar will become more convenient and ergonomic for efficient and long-term storage of the crop.