Plywood For Garage Shelves

Materials needed for diy garage shelves.

Plywood for garage shelves.

Plywood is also classified as exterior exposure 1 exposure 2 and interior. If you re looking to clean up your garage clutter installing some diy shelving can be a quick win. 1 is an overhead storage blueprint. Plywood panels over 3 4 inch in thickness are usually special order products.

We assembled a list of 16 garage shelving plans below. Thinner sheets of plywood can be glued together laminated to make a thicker panel for cutting sturdier shelves. The type of plywood you choose will depend on economics how much exposure to the elements the wood will get and whether looks are important to you. There are a few plywood grading systems out there but most of them follow an a d classification with a being the best.

You can use plywood instead and make them fancy with edge banding but it will cost you. 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. You can build your own garage shelves from scrap 2 x 4s and plywood ones that will hold all of your tool cases. Plywood for shelves should be 3 4 inch thick or thicker.

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. For one set of 4 foot long shelves. 14 is a modern looking simple design. There are some interesting options on this list.

And 16 is an ultra big unit for massive storage space.