Ok, so Im new to this forum, but I wanted to share some info...Ive pondered over the last 3 weeks on building or buying my own rack system...I wanted about 7-8 tubs total..(for now),,lol...I priced this and looked at that and was about to give in to buying a pro made type deal...I almost walked out of home depot and there it was, the answer id been looking for....MELAMINE...now I know what youre thinking....yada yada...melamine, been there done that....heavy, chips, hard to get all the pieces cut perfect...Well, where I am in NC, the home depots here sell melamine shelving that is precut, its 3/4" thick X 15.5" x 36"...Its NOT the melamine shelving that they sell that is 8ft long...This stuff is somewhat new to depot and its PERFECT for building a rack for 28qt OR 41qt sterilites without having to do any alterations to the wood....ALL the sides are sealed except one edge...I took some ideas for this from MATTHEW at blueappleherps (I will post his PDF link here alittle further on) Youll notice that mine is similar, except my shelves are upsidedown from his....

COST?

each piece of melamine (already precut and ready to go) $6.74 I needed 8 of them for this rack...the rest is nothing but 1x2's and 1x4's....Matts instructions on wood cutting, and pieces needed are exactly what I used..Except he used sintra or cpvc type stuff...here locally thats almost 100 a sheet (5 pieces of this size max per 4x8 sheet) so I would have spent $200 on the plastic shelves alone...with these precut melamine pieces I spent about 55 bucks!...Im about 90% done with it...

8 tub rack about $110 in materials
8 41 qt tubs about $50
and Ill be ordering 11" flex from good ole rich....$160 for the rack in my guesstimation is pretty damn good....

Heres Matts link

http://www.blueappleherps.com/page13...structions.pdf

Maybe Im missing something here, but is there a way to add pics to my post? ive got some ready to go and noticed that I cant...LOL...oh well


If you would like some pics of mine, send me an email or PM...
Ouijaboid@usa.com