Storalex3 Bay Extra Deep Garage Shelving Racking Units – UK’s Bestselling Garage Storage Shelves - 600mm Deep - 200kg Per Shelf (Evenly Distributed) - 5 Level Unit - Metal & MDF Boltless Assembly

Easy to assemble and sturdy. The shelves are very spacious so can fit a lot of stuff in your storage. The shelves are interchangable so gives you lots of room to assemble it according to your needs.The shelves are light weight so I was skeptical if it can hold the weight it promises. But I am very happy with it, as it holds so much weight. Even though it is light weight, once assemble properly it is not wobbbly at all. We have stored so much stuff on the shelf and it has been holding very well.I have one in the garage and there was water damage, the shelves got wet and mouldy but they are still intact which surprised us. We put them in the sun to dry it and cleaned them, they are still working great.

It’s possible to assemble these on your own (I did) but almost certainly easier if you have two people on the job, as four hands for some parts of the assembly would be better than two. I bought them to rack-out my garage workshop and organise things better, so now can easily find everything.The 600mm version offers considerably more storage space, so I would recommend that’s what you buy if you have the space to accommodate them: the smaller size takes the same amount of assembly time and work, but you end up with less shelf space.The frames are bolted together with short fat bolts, each with a corresponding washer and nut, so all you’ll need is the correct sized spanner and a thick crosshead screwdriver. Each leg of the frame has a push-on plastic foot with the same right-angle shape of the upright.These units are OK for a domestic garage or garden shed but not really suitable for a warehouse, where they may see heavier use. The frame comes with a push-in central supporting strut for the increased rigidity of each shelf bay, and this guarantees the shelves – which are MDF, and only just thick and strong enough for the job – will not bow in the middle. The frames, prior to the insertion of these support struts and the MDF shelves, bend and flex alarmingly but when the whole thing is assembled the result is quite rigid. You may assemble them such that the shelves may be at differing height and spacing, but changing this when the shelves are already in use, while possible, can take a while and some faffing about.Don’t underestimate the time it may take you to assemble everything. I bought nine bays of shelves, and assembly basically took all day, but if there were two of you on the job, it might be a lot quicker.For what they are, they are good value and will last well. I don’t know how the MDF shelving might stand up to a damp environment, because my garage is dry so that’s unlikely to be an issue.

This is the second set of these 3 packs I have now purchased, one set has gone in my garage and the second in my "man cave" in the garden. As I brought a second set you'll not be surprised to hear I am quite pleased with them. I particularly wanted the extra depth offerred by the 600mm version which gives so much extra storage space, turning a rather cluttered space (particularly the man cave) into a reasonably neat and tidy area.When the first set of 3 was assemble, I had help, the second set I did on my own, so it is possible to put together on your own, but it is significantly easier with two, particularly at the initial stages of assembly, when everything appears very flimsy, so much so that I had serious doubts that the framework, let alone the actual shelves would be up to the job. Fortunately when you persevere and get the framework done, shelves inserted and bolted to the wall it is quite firm and solid, and more than capable of support a fair bit of weight. That being said, the frames are reletively soft metal and can very easily get bent out of shape, but on the plus side, if they are easily bent out of shape, its just as easy to bend them back in. The point is, these are not suitable for heavy duty warehouse use, but for standard indoor domestic work it copes very well, and takes a decent weight without issues as the large shelves do have a central support for stability and weight distribution.Shelf heights are viaiable as required, and by the time I got to the last of the six bays I've put together I was pretty good at it, and could "knock one out" in 15 minutes although this would have been less with two people. The first few however took considerably longer, not because the assembly process is complicated, but because I thought everything would simply slot in without issue but it does not. Invariable you need to widen slots and guide the tabs on the shelf struts into the slots on the uprights.This becomes a bit of a balancing act when you're trying to put the bays together on your own, but if you bend the tabs slightly inwards and widen the slots on the uprights before assembly it goes together much more easily. A quick tap into place with a rubber mallet and all is secure. Word of warning however, if you assemble a full bay and then try to move it by picking it up holding onto the uprights above waist level, the top half will immediately come apart as the upright join doesnt lock the two halves together and on our early attempts our assembly work was ruined before we realised this. The supplied mdf shelving looked thin, but has been up to the job, and seems quite strong once everything is bolted together. If you use these shelves for their intended domestic purpose and don't want to load them up with very heavy item, or use then as a climbing frame they very good, hence I brought a second set a few months after the first. Good customer service from the supplier as well, who amended delivery date and destination even after I got an email from Amazon saying the the date and time was set and could no longer be changed.

These sturdy and effective storage shelving units are based around horizontal metal struts which use tabs to fit into slots in the verticals. The tabs must go in the top of the slot AND out the bottom, and this can be hard to achieve, resulting in distortion of the tabs, and careful pressure on the tabs in particular ways is necessary to engage them correctly during assembly. The instructions are fairly clear on this point but it still takes a while to realise what is supposed to happen when you build them for the first time. Note also that the verticals are not symmetrical end to end and they ideally need to all be aligned in the same direction (eg if you want mounting holes to line up to bolt units together). In addition, it is important to note that while the structures are very strong in compression, they are weak in tension: they must be erected in situ as lifting them may cause them to fall apart.