Garage Shelving costing £25 to £50 GBP

Reclaim your garage with racking and garage shelves

Gone are the days when the garage did little more than house your car. Today garages are used for a variety of things from storing bicycles, to tools and workbenches, not to mention garden and DIY items. Yet if you were to organise your garage with the right garage racks and garage shelves you'd be amazed at the amount of space you can save. With garage shelving and garage racks you can turn your garage from a general purpose dumping ground to a tidy and spacious addition to your home.

Using garage shelves and garage racking is a great way to organise your garage. Just think - you'll finally be able to get your tools and paint tins off of the floor with some garage shelving. Other household items – from footballs to bicycle pumps – even cleaning materials can be organised boxes on your garage shelves. Plus, with the extra space you get with everything tidy away on garage shelving you'll be able to create an area for a workbench. With organised storage solutions, at last you'll be able to find just what you need quickly and easily.

Helpful tips on garage shelves and racking

If the time has come for you to reclaim your garage and finally get some garage shelving, here are some helpful tips to make fitting your garage racking a breeze.

1. Sort through everything in the garage and keep only what you need. Be ruthless and throw out, recycle, or donate what you do not need. Once you've sorted out your possessions you'll be able to decide what type of garage racking and garage shelving you'll need.

2. Think about your requirements. Do you need garage racks for bicycles? If so, do you want them to be floor or wall-mounted? What about lockable garage racks for valuable tools? How many garage racks do you need?

3. Decide on a layout for your garage racking. Your storage system should make good use of the walls for your garage shelves or garage racking. You could place the garage racking along just one wall or have smaller sections of garage shelving for particular uses.

4. Organise the contents of your garage. For example, you may want to sort your garage racking by uses – garden equipment in one set of garage shelves, DIY tools and supplies on another. Perhaps you need garage racks for sporting or camping equipment. Don't forget to use plastic boxes with your garage shelving. You'll probably find that you'll need a mixture of garage shelves and garage racks to cope with the different storage requirements of your household.

5. Do you want a workbench or workstation? Some garage racking has workbenches which will co-ordinate with your storage. By placing your workbench next to the garage racking you can create a dedicated work area for DIY, gardening or car maintenance. Everything you need will be close to hand with your garage racks nearby.

6. Do you use your garage to store tins of food or laundry equipment? Then perhaps you'll want to include some plastic storage cabins in your storage system. This would enable you to store items in the garage hygienically. This type of garage racking is also useful to hold smaller tins of nails, screws and bolts.

7. You will want to make organising your garage easy on your purse and easy to install, so it makes sense go for affordable, easy to assemble garage shelving and garage racks. If you shop online you'll be able to find high quality yet low cost garage racks and shelving. At BiGDUG we're the UK's leading online provider of low cost garage racking. We supply garage shelving and racking to suit every requirement and budget. Plus, our garage racks uses a simple 'tap together' techniques, so you'll have your garage shelves assembled in no time.