Mounting shelves on the wall of your garage are a great way to provide additional storage. Home improvement expert, Danny Lipford, shows you how to go about it.

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Now to continue our effort in trying to get everything off the floor of this garage, we’re building a section of shelving all the way down to this end of the garage over 20 feet and will take you two of them. So can I have all those 40 foot of shelving to accommodate a lot of the things that were here in the garage. Now we start it out by measuring a few of the items that were placing on the shelf to make sure we have the proper spacing and we decided to go a 16 inch wide shelf with so many large item in our garage and we started all of this process out by measuring from the ceiling down. We mark the height of each shelf on both ends of the garage and connect to the points using the chalk line. Next we located and mark all studs and began attaching our 1x2 clips to the wall. These clips were prime and painted in advance to save time and since they won’t run in the whole link, they have to be seen at stud location. Pre-drilling helps prevent the two inch drywall screws from splitting the clips at they go in. On the sidewalls short 15 inch clip will support the end of the shelf. Our wall clip will support the backside of our shelving. Now here is how we support the rest of the way of the shelving. These are little 1x4 that we’ve kind of meet the corner out here with our mother saw and we’re using these every 32 inches and this will serve as the supports for our metal shelf brackets. Now our shelf brackets were around 11x15, perfect size for what we’re doing here and brackets like this can be put right on the wall but with the weight that were expecting on this shelf were afraid just won’t have the support using the surface of the drywall. So by putting this on the wall and nail them into the stud we know these brackets won’t go anywhere. So we’ll go along and install all of these along the wall that’s a good bit of a work. Now scrap of wood on top of the clip will hold the bracket flash while Greg drives the screws in. These screws go through the bracket, the one before the drywall and into the stud. When the bracket were all in we began measuring for the shelf boards. We cut down three-quarter inch particle board into 16 inch by eight foot pieces which are also prime and painted. Each shelf will require two seams and we’ll lay them out to land on the shelf bracket. The boards are cut opposing 45 degree angles so the narrow bracket supports both pieces.