Track Shelving Starter Set Three Shelves 900mm Wide in Painted MDF

The smallest complete thing we sell: two uprights, three shelves and every bracket and fixing. Buy one, put it up, and add to it later without replacing anything.

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. A starter set is the honest way into a track system. The uprights you buy today take the shelves you buy in three years, and a second set fixed alongside extends the run rather than starting again.

Specification

• Dimensions: 900mm wide, three shelves, 250mm deep, uprights 1800mm
• Material: moisture resistant MDF, 30mm thick, sprayed in a two pack polyurethane
• Finish: hardware in your chosen finish, timber oiled and ready to use
• Load rating: 25kg per shelf evenly distributed, tested to twice that before deflection reaches 3mm
• Span and bracket spacing: two uprights at 720mm centres
• Adjustability: shelves move on the 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
• Extends by adding an upright and a shelf, nothing is replaced
• Total shelf run: 2.7 linear metres
• Packed weight: approximately 27.6 kilograms
• Delivered flat in one carton

What you get

• Two slotted uprights, 1800mm
• Three shelves in painted mdf, 900mm by 250mm by 30mm
• 6 shelf brackets, 250mm
• A fixing pack for masonry
• 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.