For those of you with more substantial items to store in your garage, regular shelving units probably won’t cut it in the same way heavy-duty garage shelves will. Storage solutions tend to be made to the specifications that are needed, and most items that are stored in a garage aren’t that heavy, so typical garage shelving is built thinner, lighter, and cheaper.
This is great when you are storing lightweight items, but if you need to store something with a little more heft, you will need heavy-duty shelving to match.
Heavy-Duty Garage Shelves
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As the name suggests, heavy-duty garage shelves are garage shelves that are built from stronger stuff. They will typically be bulkier than their regular counterparts, and certainly heavier, but you will be able to put significantly more weight on them.
Some common uses for heavy-duty shelves include storage of things like the masses of paint cans that seem to build up in most garages, old car parts, and really anything that could cause serious injury to a foot if dropped on it.
Why Choose Heavy-Duty Garage Shelves?
Simply put: safety. Once you have accepted that a garage storage solution is necessary to get or keep your garage in order, it becomes a matter of choosing the best one. If you try to store something on a shelf that exceeds the weight that the shelf can take, you are likely to cause a mess if and when it collapses. In the worst case scenario, someone could get injured.
Heavy-Duty Plastic Garage Shelves
Heavy-duty plastic shelving is generally not as strong as its metal counterpart, but it does have the advantage of being lighter, which makes it easier to move around. It is also often easier to put together (and take apart). Plastic shelving makes for great temporary storage solutions for these reasons, but they are still perfectly fine for longer-term use.
Heavy-Duty Metal Garage Shelves
As you can probably guess from the above section on plastic shelving, metal shelving is often stronger than its plastic counterparts, which means the same level of strength can be achieved with thinner pieces of metal. While this doesn’t always mean lighter shelving (especially with heavy-duty garage shelves) it does mean that you can get a little more shelving for your floor space, as less space will be taken by the material itself.
If you have particularly heavy items to store, metal shelving is really your only option.
Heavy-Duty Free-Standing Garage Shelves
Free-standing shelving is the way to go if you have a lot of weight to store since all of that weight is placed firmly on the ground. These shelves can also be placed anywhere, including away from walls. They do take up some of your floor space, however.
Heavy-Duty Wall-Mounted Garage Shelves
Wall-mounted shelves are the best solution if you are limited on space. Being wall-mounted, they don’t take up any floor space, and they can be placed anywhere where there is a patch of wall suitable for mounting. Remember, though, the shelves are only as strong as their mounting. Their weight-rating won’t mean much if they are not securely attached to the wall.
