Open Wardrobe and Dressing Room System Single Wall 1800mm Wide in Solid Ash

Open storage for clothes on the same track system as the rest of the range, sized for one wall of an open wardrobe, hanging rail and shelving. Hanging rails, shelves and shoe racks all hook into the same uprights.

The track system is the reason this shelving scales. Slotted uprights fix to the wall on a 600mm grid, brackets hook into the slots at 32mm pitch, and shelves sit on the brackets. Nothing is fixed at a height you have to live with. A shelf moves in about twenty seconds with no tools, no new holes and no filler, which matters more than any other feature once you have owned it for a year and the books have changed. The uprights carry the load straight down into the wall rather than trying to lever off it, which is why a track system holds far more than the same shelf on a pair of cantilever brackets.

Specification

• Dimensions: 1800mm wide, four shelves at 400mm deep, hanging rails at 1000mm and 1800mm
• Material: solid English ash, 30mm thick, finished in hardwax oil
• Finish: hardware in your chosen finish, timber oiled and ready to use
• Load rating: hanging rail rated to 40kg per metre, shelves 68kg per shelf evenly distributed, tested to twice that before deflection reaches 3mm
• Span and bracket spacing: uprights at 600mm centres, rails supported at every upright
• Adjustability: rails, shelves and shoe racks all move on the 32mm pitch, so a long hanging section becomes a double hanging section in ten minutes
• Suitable walls: timber stud at 400 or 600mm centres, brick, block and concrete. Not suitable for plasterboard on dabs without a timber backing batten
• Fixings: stainless screws and the right plug for masonry are included. Fixings for plasterboard on dabs and for metal stud are supplied on request at no charge
• Depth: 400mm, which is what a coat hanger actually needs
• Hanging rail: 25mm stainless tube, 2.7 metres in total
• Shoe racks: two angled racks included, 900mm each
• Trouser rail and tie rail available as accessories
• Packed weight: approximately 60.9 kilograms

What you get

• Four slotted uprights, 1800mm
• Four shelves in solid ash at 400mm deep
• 2.7 metres of 25mm stainless hanging rail with end sockets
• Two angled shoe racks, 900mm each
• 16 shelf brackets, 400mm
• Fixing packs for masonry and for timber stud

Fitting

Two people, a drill, a spirit level and about two hours for a single wall. Mark the top line first and hang every upright from it rather than measuring up from the floor, because floors are never level and a shelf that follows the floor looks wrong in a way nobody can put their finger on. Fix the first upright, level it, then use a shelf as a straight edge to set the next one. The fixing pack, a paper template and a printed sequence are in the box.

Planning your wall

A room system is planned as one thing rather than as several walls that happen to have shelves on them. Keep the shelf lines continuous around a corner if you possibly can, even if the shelf lengths change, because the eye follows the horizontal and a break in it is the thing that makes a room look unplanned. Where a window or a door interrupts a run, stop the shelf at the reveal rather than trying to work around it.