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7th June 2012, 03:27 AM #1
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Wall storage shelves hanging from french-cleat wall slats
Spent the summer downunder with my girls and grandkids, and organised two new garage sheds for my two SILs (Sons-In-Law... with their buy in) mainly by installing wall storage shelves hanging from french-cleat wall slats...
We cut twenty eight 2400mm french-cleat slats from two 19mm plywood sheets using a table-saw. First cut them square to a width of +-82mm, and then cut the 45degree bevel along one edge.
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In the stud-wall garage, the wall slats were secured at top-edge heights of 900, 1200, 1500, 1800, 2100mm using two 65mm square-drive screws per stud which are spaced (mostly) at 600mm centres.
The equipment and tools in this shed are relatively basic, as this SIL's DIY-gene is currently near-enough-as-damnit inactive.
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In the brick-wall garage (hardest bricks I have ever encountered
) the wall slats were first secured to two 17mm plywood sheets using 2x35mm screws spaced at 400mm centres. And then these sheets were attached to the brick-wall using twelve 90mm bolts per sheet. The standard width of the plywood sheets resulted in these four wall slats being spaced vertically at 358mm centres.
This shed is better equipped, as this SIL has an active DIY-gene, and he is a gadget/tool man
. So this shed organisation also included: more clamp-storage using the shelf ends; mounting the bench drill press on a wall shelf above and behind left side of bench; a horizontal-timber-storage-off-cut-rack using 19mm dowels set at 5.5degrees from horizontal; a Mobile-Base-Cutting-Bench-with-Hinged-Extension-Wings.
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Aaaaah.... those were the days!
Back in my caravan in Blighty now... unfortunately still no contract work available... and am yearning to spend more time in one of "my" man-caves... 
Andy
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7th June 2012, 09:46 AM #2
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SiL's must be pleased to have such a good FiL!!
Believe me, from my experience with SiLs' they are unlikely to change....he who hasn't won't and he who has will!
I have two who don't and won't and have no inclination to will. Both are as lazy around the house as the other. Wife of one gave up years ago, needless to say house gets nowhere. other one wife is good DIYer...learnt from her Dad (me
)!!! Can even put a fence up and do concreting (with a little help). One gets a little help from me but other none anymore. He didn't like the help, I guess because it showed him up a bit.
Funny thing, both are accountants, and both as tightfisted with the dollar as a bank manager when asked for a large loan.
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7th June 2012, 01:20 PM #3
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Nothing like getting things well sorted...i hate things just stacked up in a pile
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7th June 2012, 07:44 PM #4
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Very interesting.... my DIY-gene-deficient-SiL is also an accountant
Originally Posted by wun4us
Funny thing, both are accountants, and both as tightfisted with the dollar as a bank manager when asked for a large loan. and a tad more than somewhat tightfisted.
But in his defence, he has an active sports-spectating-gene, which the other SiL lacks, so we bond in that way.
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7th June 2012, 11:38 PM #5
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Originally Posted by WandrinAndy
Very interesting.... my DIY-gene-deficient-SiL is also an accountant and a tad more than somewhat tightfisted.
But in his defence, he has an active sports-spectating-gene, which the other SiL lacks, so we bond in that way.
And yes, these two of mine are absolute sport fanatics...sport of any sort....give either of them a remote control and they will spend all day flicking from one channel to another to catch what's happening with tghe various sports being televised.
Usuall lying flat on the floor in fron t of the box.
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8th June 2012, 10:42 PM #6
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Excellent use of space Andy
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9th June 2012, 01:01 AM #7
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You could always come back to packy and sort out my garage in dandenong. Only 10-20 clicks from Packy. Shouldn't take you more than 2 months.
Peter
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