Hilka Shelving

[djmagnifique]

Hi, Has anyone used the hilka shelving available form argos?

I need some shelves to store my records on and was wondering what there like. The description says they will hold 150kg on each shelf but they dont look that strong in the picture and apart from the frame the shelves are made from partical board.

If anyone has used them and think there ok which would you sugesst I get from the ones available (links below) or would you recomend something else?

I'm on a budget of about £30.

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/7000663.htm
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/7000814.htm

Cheers.

 

[breezer]

neither, make your own.

those that argos sell are cheap.
to make them cheap they use thiner metal.
thin metal will bow in the middle

try searching the web for dexion

 

[big-all]

no good for albums unless your prepared to store them flat
the total height per shelve is 300mm minus the thickness of the shelve and as an album is around 300 to start with they wont fit
and it dos'nt look like the shelves are adjustible

 

[Steve]

If you can get hold of shopfitting shelves, they are very strong, they have to be due to the environment they are installed in. Not cheap though, and not easy to get hold of! You could try ringing a few shopfitters, ask them if they have any old shelf parts going spare.

As others have said, make your own. You could use angle bracket with plywood shelves if appearance is not important.

OOI, i bought some shelves from B&Q about 10 years ago, made purely from 15mm x 50mm timber. It consists of 4 uprights, with the face forward, one each corner, and 5 shelves. The shelves had 4 pieces of timber, running L-R and one timber each end, running front to back underneath, joining to the uprights with 2 screws at each joint. Shelves fastened together with staples. I had these in my bedroom, but they are now doing a grand job in the shed for general storage. They are very strong for their structure. Only £20 each too

Pity then, that we bought some similar appearance shelves from argos a couple of years ago, that were made from nothing more than balsa wood. They were horrible. Wouldnt even support the weight of a telly.

 

[djmagnifique]

OOI, i bought some shelves from B&Q about 10 years ago, made purely from 15mm x 50mm timber. It consists of 4 uprights, with the face forward, one each corner, and 5 shelves. The shelves had 4 pieces of timber, running L-R and one timber each end, running front to back underneath, joining to the uprights with 2 screws at each joint. Shelves fastened together with staples. I had these in my bedroom, but they are now doing a grand job in the shed for general storage. They are very strong for their structure. Only £20 each too

I know the shelves your on about, i've got some in my shed and they have my tools on. there ok but I dont think they would hold the weight of the records as they are bending a little in the middle.

 

[breezer]

think again.

mate and i were in a well known supermarket, (working) we cleared the top shelf and he climbed up and stood on it (he must weigh about 10 stone) he was up there for about 15 minutes doing the job

 

[redkins]

I just bought some of the Hilka shelves from Argos, and I thought I'd let you know how they were, for future reference of anyone finding this thread.

For £30, you cannot go wrong! These shelves are rock solid. I'm not sure I'd want to load them up to the advertised 150Kg per shelf, but for two boxes of vinyl LPs or 12"...about 250 pieces at a guess, they're absolutely fine. I looked at the dexion shelves that someone else mentioned in this thread, and for twice the price, you get something that looks exactly the same, and maybe even more flimsy, and something similar in B&Q that was £50 was way off the mark with a single galvanised metal sheet for a shelf that would definitely bend under the weight of 250 records!

The shelves are also NOT 30cm high as someone mentioned. They're 30cm deep, so LPs and 12" will hang over the shelves slightly, but not much. I've actually boxed my records up with boxes from boxes2move, specially designed for records, and I got four shelves in one unit, and actually stacked the boxes two high on the top shelf, so I got about 10 100 count boxes on one shelf unit.

The height of these shelves is adjustable too so you can have them as far apart or close together as you want, but spacing them just enough for records will allow for four shelves on one unit.

I actually built some shelves from scratch, out of MDF. It cost about £36 for two sheets of 18mm MDF, plus cuts. It was perfectly sized for records and 12 100 count bays. For the time and hassle of building your own, I would recommend the Hilka shelves every time, and I'm going to buy another couple of them. They're not built for records so the dimensions aren't exact, but for the price, I can live with that!