Plywood For Garage Shelves

For one set of 4 foot long shelves.

Plywood for garage shelves.

You can t even buy a set of plastic shelves for the price of these sturdy 2 4 garage shelves. Thinner sheets of plywood can be glued together laminated to make a thicker panel for cutting sturdier shelves. You can use plywood instead and make them fancy with edge banding but it will cost you. There are some interesting options on this list.

Materials needed for diy garage shelves. 14 is a modern looking simple design. 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. Plywood panels over 3 4 inch in thickness are usually special order products.

There are a few plywood grading systems out there but most of them follow an a d classification with a being the best. If you re looking to clean up your garage clutter installing some diy shelving can be a quick win. Plywood is also classified as exterior exposure 1 exposure 2 and interior. Plywood for shelves should be 3 4 inch thick or thicker.

You can build your own garage shelves from scrap 2 x 4s and plywood ones that will hold all of your tool cases. 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. 1 is an overhead storage blueprint. 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.

We assembled a list of 16 garage shelving plans below.