Track Shelving Hardware Bundle Eight Upright and Forty Bracket Bundle

A room's worth of hardware, or a long run in a workshop or a garage. All the metalwork and none of the boards.

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: 8 uprights at 1800mm, 40 brackets at 250mm
• Material: 1.5mm folded steel uprights, 3mm pressed steel brackets
• Finish: powder coated in your chosen finish
• Load rating: 60kg per bracket pair at 600mm centres
• Span and bracket spacing: uprights at 600mm centres, maximum unsupported span 900mm
• Adjustability: brackets hook in on a 32mm pitch anywhere over the upright
• Suitable walls: brick, block, concrete and timber stud. Plasterboard on dabs needs the long fixing kit, which is a free option at the checkout
• 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
• Board thickness accepted: 18mm to 40mm
• Board width: any, the brackets do not care
• Bracket depth: 250mm
• Shelf clips supplied for every bracket
• Packed weight: approximately 29.0 kilograms

What you get

• 8 slotted uprights, 1800mm
• 40 shelf brackets, 250mm
• 40 shelf clips
• Fixing packs for masonry and for timber stud
• A paper marking template and a fitting sequence

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

Work from the top down. Set the top shelf where it looks right, usually a little above eye level, then space the rest below it. Books want 320mm between shelves for paperbacks and 400mm for hardbacks and art books, and there is no reason for the spacing to be equal. A wall of identical gaps reads as storage and a wall of varied gaps reads as a room. Leave the bottom shelf at least 300mm off the floor so a hoover and a skirting board both have somewhere to go.