Now put your bottom shelf support across to get the bottom about the right distance apart. Stand your end pieces on their side about 8-feet apart and put what will be your top shelf support across the end pieces so you can get them the right distance apart. If you put them on the OUTSIDE (like I did) you’ll have to notch the OSB shelves to fit in. If they are INSIDE you’ll eventually have to cut a couple of inches off the OSB shelf pieces to slide in (makes it a LITTLE easier to assemble). FIRST, decide whether your end brackets will be toward the inside of the shelves or toward the outside of the shelves. Remember, they need to be 21-inches so when your side brackets go on the total width will be 24-inches to fit your shelves. I used scrap 2x4s (see right) to layout my sample shelf heights and marked from those, but you can use tape measures and all that if you have exact heights in mind.Īttach your end brackets to the corner posts. Lay your 4 corner posts on the ground together and mark where the bottom of your 2×4 shelf supports will fit across all 4. Since I got everything ready to go ahead of time, assembly is easy. As for pre-screwing, I got all my screws ready to go on the workbench so I could slap the boards into place and screw away. Now I can drill and screw without thinking. I made one for the end pieces and one for attaching the long 2x4s to the end pieces to make the skeleton. I made a drilling template to idiot-proof my drilling. Now you’ll have 8 full 2x4s, 4 6-foot 2x4s, and 8 21-inch 2x4s. Use the four 2-foot pieces from the corner post cuts to make the other 4 21-inch end pieces.
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