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Any low height shelving resources for all my filled canning jars?
Have been looking at multiple online sites for a specific size 3 shelf unit to store all my filled jars under a laundry counter. Max height 25 inches. I have about 150 jars so need much weight.
Uline, Global, Webrestaurant, etc. WHERE CAN I FIND this elusive unit?? haha
I make my own alcohol, and having the glass jars sitting on those is great if there is ever a blowout of the airlock, or if something breaks, since it'll help contain liquid.
If you don't have a saw, you can go to a hardware store and ask them to cut them for you. If they aren't busy, they will typically do it. Seems like you would need a few 2x4 or whatever unit your location uses and some thicker plywood.
Sorry mate, gotta disagree with this recommendation. Each shelf has a max load of 33lbs, and each jar weighing probably a good .75lbs, but they'd run out of space before hitting the weight limit (each shelf can only hold 12 jars). They have 150 jars, 24 jars per shelving unit, so they'd need to buy 7 of those to store everything ($120 before tax).
And there are no sides to those, so if any are bumped, the glass jars could just slide right off of them and shatter on the ground.
Money better spent buying some wood, and building some out.
You can flip the shelves upside down to have sides. They also insert into each other and the shelf position is adjustable to any one of those little slots on the sides if they have different sizes jars.
I don't know anything about OP's budget, physical ability, etc.
It's their decision at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter to me - other people have recommended the wood option, it wouldn't be helpful for everyone to suggest the same thing.
No, you can't. The holes for the posts are tapered in order to fit on the plastic slides that go onto the posts. If you flip the shelf, you reduce the surface area between the shelf and the plastic slide, lowering the capacity of each shelf (and potentially making it unstable since the shelves are also what hold all 4 posts together).
I assembled mine the wrong way at first, and it's not the intended way in the instructions but it will work. They are barely tapered. The difference was not noticeable either direction.
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u/Ryan_e3p Salt & Prepper 5d ago
2x4s and plywood, my friend.