Plywood For Garage Shelves

1 is an overhead storage blueprint.

Plywood for garage shelves.

We ripped plywood into 15 3 4 strips so it would fit easily inside the shelves and also accounts for the saw blade width and layed the plywood on the shelving. Plywood for shelves should be 3 4 inch thick or thicker. You can t even buy a set of plastic shelves for the price of these sturdy 2 4 garage shelves. Materials needed for diy garage shelves.

There are some interesting options on this list. Standard sheets of plywood come in 1 4 inch 3 8 inch 1 2 inch 5 8 inch and 3 4 inch thicknesses. There are a few plywood grading systems out there but most of them follow an a d classification with a being the best. 14 is a modern looking simple design.

And 16 is an ultra big unit for massive storage space. Plywood panels over 3 4 inch in thickness are usually special order products. We use 1 2 plywood for the 16 width shelving perhaps go up to 5 8 or 3 4 if you do 24 wide shelving or have especially heavy loads destined for these shelves. If you re looking to clean up your garage clutter installing some diy shelving can be a quick win.

Thinner sheets of plywood can be glued together laminated to make a thicker panel for cutting sturdier shelves. Plywood is also classified as exterior exposure 1 exposure 2 and interior. We assembled a list of 16 garage shelving plans below. You can build your own garage shelves from scrap 2 x 4s and plywood ones that will hold all of your tool cases.

You can use plywood instead and make them fancy with edge banding but it will cost you.