The Frugal Herper's Snake Rack

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When you open the shelving unit boxes, you'll get this:



Two sides and the back of the shelving unit has a lip to it - you want to make sure as you put this rack together, that the lip is at the back - it's a stopper for your tubs, and one reason why this particular shelving unit was chosen for this design:



Top of a shelf:


Bottom of a shelf:


On bottom of shelf - apply a thin layer of Goop along the long edges:


Place a panel of the cut Eucaboard on top and set aside to dry (I dried for about 24 hours)



Repeat on six more shelves (if you are using the 2 storage unit design). I did not put any on the last shelf, because that last shelf was the base, and the top was what the bottom tubs sat on, and the bottom of the shelf is on the floor.

After 24 hours comes the fun part!

For the kitty litter pans, we cut the legs to six inches (a little short, so that you can adjust the top shelf on each level, then use the screws as stoppers). A note here - you want to cut about 1/4" short on the very first (or bottom) level, because it's not using the Eucaboard, and therfore, needs to be a little shorter to account for that height difference between shelves.

Here's my father measuring a six inch cut with one that we used as the "master" cut:





And Dad cutting with the electric saw:



One shelf done!!!



We drilled a hole big enough to use the screw as a stopper, once we were happy with the "seating" of the shelf on top of the tubs:





Two shelves done:


And for the six quart tubs, the legs need to be cut to 7". The final rack, just needs heat tape and a thermostat and it's ready to go:



You'll notice that my bottom shelf doesn't have any kitty litter pans - my two Walmarts ran out of blue, so I need to wait for them to get some more in - so my rack can be uniform - but it's 5 layers of juvie tubs and 2 layers of baby tubs!