Hi, I have a space that's unused in a wardrobe room above a rail and I've decided a simple shelf would be great for storage. It's about the right size to fit six (two rows of three) of the standard "33cm cube" inserts you find in places like Ikea. Overall measurements are 102cm x 87cm and a height of 49cm.
But, I'm unsure of the best way to construct it to avoid any future warping from the load. Ideally I'd like as little material as possible so nothing is getting in the way or looking bad. I'd like to assume that anything up to as heavy as books could get stored in these cubes.
My initial, unskilled, design idea is to simply fix batons to the three sides and sit a shelf made from tongue and groove cladding on top of that (screwed down). That should mean that some of the load in the front middle (which would be otherwise unsupported) would go back to the rear baton as well as the two sides. Is that enough for 14.5mm thick panels?
A second option is to add cube separators, at least at the front. I can fit 2x1cm thick planks, screw from under the front and again, fix them to the roof using batons?
Alternatively are there any better "standard way" of building a shelf of this size?
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Hi, I have a space that's unused in a wardrobe room above a rail and I've decided a simple shelf would be great for storage. It's about the right size to fit six (two rows of three) of the standard "33cm cube" inserts you find in places like Ikea. Overall measurements are 102cm x 87cm and a height of 49cm.
But, I'm unsure of the best way to construct it to avoid any future warping from the load. Ideally I'd like as little material as possible so nothing is getting in the way or looking bad. I'd like to assume that anything up to as heavy as books could get stored in these cubes.
My initial, unskilled, design idea is to simply fix batons to the three sides and sit a shelf made from tongue and groove cladding on top of that (screwed down). That should mean that some of the load in the front middle (which would be otherwise unsupported) would go back to the rear baton as well as the two sides. Is that enough for 14.5mm thick panels?
A second option is to add cube separators, at least at the front. I can fit 2x1cm thick planks, screw from under the front and again, fix them to the roof using batons?
Alternatively are there any better "standard way" of building a shelf of this size?