Utility and Boot Room Shelving System Boot Room 1500mm Wide in Solid Iroko

Hard wearing open shelving for a boot room or a back hall, with a hanging rail under the shelves and a bench height ledge for taking boots off. Everything here is specified for a room that gets wet coats, muddy boots and damp washing rather than books.

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: 1500mm wide, three shelves, 350mm deep
• Material: solid iroko, 30mm thick, oiled, stable enough for a bathroom or a utility room
• Finish: hardware in your chosen finish, timber finished in a moisture tolerant oil
• Load rating: 50kg per shelf evenly distributed, tested to twice that before deflection reaches 3mm
• Span and bracket spacing: uprights at 750mm centres, 350mm brackets
• Adjustability: shelves move on the 32mm pitch, and the rails move with them
• 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
• Depth: 350mm, which takes a laundry basket
• Includes a 25mm stainless hanging rail the full width
• Includes six double coat hooks on a rail
• Suitable for a humid room, not for a shower enclosure
• Total shelf run: 4.5 linear metres
• Packed weight: approximately 43.4 kilograms

What you get

• Three slotted uprights, 1800mm
• Three shelves in solid iroko at 350mm deep
• 9 shelf brackets, 350mm
• One 1500mm stainless hanging rail with end sockets
• One coat hook rail with six double hooks
• 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

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.