So again, I am what I think of as a basic handy . . . man. Guy. Person. Whatever. I don’t have a big truck full of power tools. My #1 tool is my little problem solving brain.
That said, I have a customer who wanted some shelves for her basement.
A little aside here, one thing I learned about “handymanning” is, you rarely ever just do a single job. Once people have me in their house doing one thing, they right away bring out a list, and I end up being a regular caretaker. I have my monday client, my tuesday client, for a month or two at a time. Or more.
So anyway . . . AGAIN . . . I don’t build things, I don’t install doors or windows, I fix existing . . . BUT . . . this one customer, oddly enough, had a whole workshop with a work bench and a circular saw (which is all you really need to build shelves aside from basic tools), she said help yourself, and I love new toys, so, off I went to Sterritt Lumber in Watertown.
And just 3 hours later, voila:
Being simple basement shelves, I have a simple design system of placing supports on the two end pieces, tacking them into place, and then when the main shelves are on them I can drill holes and put in screws to hold the shelves for real, and everything is nice and and level.
In this basement they had an odd situation with a window, so I added some carefully cut extra pieces to extend the top all the way to the window for extra space.
Not bad for a guy who does not build shelves 🙂
