Recent content by Ameisen

The hang rails are on the top plate - every screw hole is engaged. There's no drywall on the utility room side regardless.

Sorry to bring this up again, but after shuffling lumber around (I haven't finished due to my shoulder), my guess is that the long pieces are a few hundred lbs combined. There are a number of oak boards as well as long 2x8/10 fir pieces. My concern is just having them on the top shelf, near the...

Interestingly, their sheet at Menards said to screw in the verticals or to use a hang track. Their guide online does not say that. The only mild concern that I have is that when screwing in the top screw of the verticals, that was close enough to the hang track to likely scratch it, but given...

Knape & Vogt actually makes the HEAVYWEIGHT shelves from Menards. "John Sterling" appears to be one of their brands.

Their screws were zinc #10 2½" flat-head wood screws. I went with GRK #10 2½" cabinet screws as I find GRK screws really easy to use and incredibly strong. So, same size, at least. I'm tempted, for my neuroticism's sake, to replace the top screws with 4" R4s, but I also know that that's a bad...

Hello, A few nights ago, I awoke to a loud crash - the track shelving in our basement (not quite our garage, but that part of the basement is largely used as a workshop for me as well) collapsed. I'd been storing scrap lumber, long pieces of oak/fir that I hadn't had a chance to work with yet...