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It must be due to proper planning. Not jumping in before thinking through potential points for errors. Then getting all the materials and thinking through the order for construction which identified things to be aware of before an error occurred. Final result better than I had hopped for.

Thank you Cpd. I feel very good about these shelves.

Thanks for these ideas. I will have to think about what I will do. Lighting using LED lights is the way to go for sure. The twin fluorescent strip will be near the middle of my planned shelving. So I will augment it with some led once shelving is up. Well the shelving is up and all good. I have been up on the shelves while I was fixing the shelf to the joists and no movement at all. I also hung from each joist and they barely bent at all. in the end I went with 120x47x2400 wall plates and 95x47x2700 joists (cut down from 3000 to fit) using M12x160 resin anchors five per wall plate, 12mm hardwood ply for shelves fixed down with 5.0x40 twin cut multi purpose screws - 6 per sheet. I am very pleased with the result.

Thanks for these ideas. I will have to think about what I will do. Lighting using LED lights is the way to go for sure. The twin fluorescent strip will be near the middle of my planned shelving. So I will augment it with some led once shelving is up.

No, I didn't want the whole thing as a shelf. Just 610mm shelf along sides, 610mm shelf over door and another 610mm shelf further into garage, so I have a square hole in the middle to access things on these shelves. I didn't want to fix into the ceiling. primarily to keep the shelves free of anything limiting the items I put up there. I can see what you mean but I wanted clear space.

OK. Would 18mm hardwood ply be OK? And I'd put 3 joists under the 610mm width.

Added picture of garage. When garage door opens the closest to the ceiling it gets is 680mm. So I figured I would have at least 500mm of space above the shelving allowing 150mm for the support joists. I was thinking of 5 bolts resined into each side wall at 500mm centres. Would that be enough? In reply to scottishjohn, I could reduce centres of the joists and have 3 at 300mm centres at the front of the garage and the same further into the garage. Just depends on if the 45mm x 120mm joists would be up to it or not. Is this a deep enough section?

Hi, I am new to this site and not sure if this is how you introduce yourself. Anyway, I am not very experienced at DIY and am looing for a little guidance. I am fitting some shelves in my garage and wanted advice on the timbers to use. The shelves will span the width of the garage above the up and over door. I want to put all the "junk" we keep in case we need it up there like carpet offcuts, left over guttering, cat basket etc, so don't anticipate there being more than 200kg in total supported there. Garage is 2700mm wide and I wanted to fix a wall plate 2440mm long to each side wall above the garage door and then span across with 4No: joists, two at the front of the garage to take 600mm wide ply or MDF shelf and then two at the other end of the wall plates to take a similar shelf. I would also then put a shelf running the length of each wall plate again 600mm wide to complete the "square" of shelves. The garage has been plastered and the left hand wall is the original external house wall and is sound facing bricks/Cavity/Bricks. The right side wall is a cavity wall again but the internal skin is lightweight blocks/cavity/facing bricks. I want to bolt the wall plate timber to the wall and I had thought to use a threaded 12mm x 160mm BZP bolt epoxied into 14mm holes drilled into the bricks/blocks. Looking to get 80mm into these so I don't pop out into the cavity. Then fixing a 45mm x 170mm wall plate on to the bolts with holes about 100mm down in timber so not near top. Then using timber to timber joist hangers nailed with easy twist joist nails 3.75mm x 30mm. The joists I was thinking of would be 45mm x 120mm and be set so that top of these was level with the top of the wall plate. Then some 18mm MDF cut to 600mm wide to board out. Can you help me select: A. right size timbers for wall plate and spanning joists. B. Right bolts?