Do you ever despair at the volume of materials you need to store in your home? If so you may resort to throwing useful and valuable items out because of lack of space, or stacking them away in the loft or basement to be forgotten or rust away. It needn’t be this way.

The simple and effective answer is to use your garage for storage. With a little preparation and the deft use of garage shelving, you can transform it into a place to safely and easily store a whole range of items.

Garage shelving offers the space to store things you use on a regular basis such as your garden or car repair tools and sports equipment, as well as those items you need to keep long term such as your patio furniture in winter or old items you may not want to throw away. This makes garage shelving a key component in any home storage system.

To safely store items you use on a regular basis, proper shelving systems in your garage are essential. Take for example your golf clubs. Leaving them standing in a corner is a recipe for disaster. Other than oil or other fluids from the floor seeping up into the bag, there’s also the risk of the bag falling over and damaging your precious woods and irons. Quality possessions demand quality storage arrangements such as garage shelving systems.

Garage shelving is especially important if you use your garage as a workshop. Proper storage allows you to store all your tools and accessories within easy reach, and makes your activities more pleasant and efficient. When working on a carpentry project, for example, it’s far more satisfying to have all your tools and other implements within easy reach and not have to keep stopping to hunt for the item you need.

When it comes to objects you want to store for the long term, instead of stuffing them up the attic never to be seen again, just use garage shelving to efficiently store them. They’ll then be in easy reach should you want to use them.

Proper storage also makes you garage into a safer place as the haphazard storage of items can result in accidents. Leaving your tools over the garage floor is just asking for trouble. What’s more storing potentially dangerous items such as fertilizer and weed killers in accessible places is also highly hazardous. Placing them in a location out of the reach of children is essential.

Our garages are more than just places to park our cars; they also function as workshops and storage areas for all types of items such as car parts and accessories, unused items and garden tools.

So what sort of shelving systems should you look for your garage? Your storage shelving needs essentially depend on available space and the nature of your possessions.

One happy solution is to use one of the highly versatile shelving units that you assemble yourself. These are boltless so assembly requires just a mallet and takes a few minutes.

Crafted from durable steel, these shelving units are sturdy enough to take all the knocks of home use. They typically come with four or five shelves, generally crafted from chipboard. These shelves can take weights of up to 175 kilogrammes UDL (Uniform Distributed Load), so they can comfortably handle any household item you wish to store. You can also get plastic shelves or varying sizes to hold lighter items.

These prefabricated garage shelves are flexible enough to be adapted for any kind of use. You can join several bays together, for example, and also the shelves can be adjusted to hold items of varying sizes.

Plastic garage cupboards are also available should you wish to store things away. These can come with special sections to hold tools and other items.

Garage shelving offers the perfect solution to all your storage needs. These storage shelving units are economical, hardy, flexible and easy to use and take care of, in short the ideal shelving systems for any home.

To find the best deals in garage shelving, visit the web sites of the UK’s leading online vendors to find the right storage for your needs. Just place your order online for next day delivery to a UK address.

Author Bio: Kathryn Dawson writes articles for Shelf Save, a leading online store in the UK supplying a selection of inexpensive garage shelving. Explore an extensive range of quality shelving systems

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