Plywood For Garage Shelves

Materials needed for diy garage shelves.

Plywood for garage shelves.

Thinner sheets of plywood can be glued together laminated to make a thicker panel for cutting sturdier shelves. Plywood panels over 3 4 inch in thickness are usually special order products. There are some interesting options on this list. And 16 is an ultra big unit for massive storage space.

You can use plywood instead and make them fancy with edge banding but it will cost you. Standard sheets of plywood come in 1 4 inch 3 8 inch 1 2 inch 5 8 inch and 3 4 inch thicknesses. There are a few plywood grading systems out there but most of them follow an a d classification with a being the best. 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 is also classified as exterior exposure 1 exposure 2 and interior. Plywood for shelves should be 3 4 inch thick or thicker. 1 is an overhead storage blueprint. If you re looking to clean up your garage clutter installing some diy shelving can be a quick win.

For one set of 4 foot long shelves. 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. We assembled a list of 16 garage shelving plans below. 14 is a modern looking simple design.

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.