Marv and I reconstructed the shelves on the house side of the garage.
Thanks to the fine folks at Ryobi and their One+ battery operated tools, it took us four hours including the trip to Lowe's for lumber!
The old shelves were well made, but particle board for the shelf surfaces.
We've lived here for 17 years, and they were here when we got here. Who knows how many years of Florida garage heat and humidity they endured before they began to slowly collapse.
All better now!
We even took advantage of everything being down off the shelves to get rid of some stuff we'd been saving which we will never use again.
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The Corvette club I am in has a similar problem with the shelves in our storage locker. The frames for the shelves are in good shape because they are metal. But the actual shelves are particle board and after many years in non-climate controlled Texas they are basically disintegrating. One of the club members volunteered to buy green treated plywood (reimbursed by the club) and cut them to fit since he has a table saw. However, it's been over a year and he still hasn't finished it. Always some kind of excuse... "My mamma died" (well, that actually did happen, but he's been using that excuse for over a year now). One of these days I'm going to have to just go over there and get the plywood (he was already reimbursed for it) from him and finish it myself I guess. Sadly, few of us have as reliable of helpers as Marv.
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