Thanks for all the replies guys.

I'm thinking that i may just be going through animal plastics and buying one of their economy racks. For the price of the xpvc boards and shipping its more reasonable to just buy a rack, at least from the website mentioned above. Considering i used two melamine boards from home dept, i would need at least two boards of that xpvc which is totaling around (180$ without shipping).

So i would think that the following materials are out of the question:
  • Melamine Boards.
  • XPVC.


I am going to try to contact the customer support over at Animal Plastics and see if they can answer some of my questions. One of the biggest questions being what tubs will fit the racks they supply besides the recommended sterilite tubs, as these are often outdated tubs.

Until then if anyone else has made a custom rack out of another type of wood let me know!