To echo what others have stated, depending on the type of racks you prefer, once you start needing them in serious numbers, it can be much more cost-effective in terms of materials, time, and labor to buy racks made by a professional caging company. Same goes if you need a specialty size rack or tub.
My husband & I can & have built nice, functional racks in the past, but we prefer to buy them from Animal Plastics instead. The good folks at AP have better experience, better equipment, better resources for materials and get them done more efficiently than we could. The racks are all precision built, uniform & look great. Not to mention, we'd rather spend that time down in our snake rooms caring for and enjoying our pythons, instead of out in the garage building racks. Besides, we feel our snakes deserve the best enclosures we are able to provide, and to us that means buying them from a professional enclosure builder.
It's all a matter of where and how you want to spend your time and money and efforts. Just because people do it differently than you certainly doesn't mean they're getting robbed or haven't put any thought into it.
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