Free moulding racks.

Jay H

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I’m the self proclaimed most frugal framer you will ever meet. I’ve been “bootstraping” since day one. I imagine I will do that till the end.

Anyway I needed a new moulding storage. Framemakers Dave sent me pics of some sexy horzontal storage he built. The problem was that it was extreamly expensive.

After some brainstorming I came up with FREE. OK well maybe not 100% free but darn near.

Here is what I came up with.

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What your looking at is pilots or wood skids. I busted out the bottom three rails and put it on the floor. That leaves you with a deck. I covered that deck with hardboard ($6 a sheet). I only bought 5 sheets to see how this is going to work. I’m going to load it up with moulding and see how it goes. So far it seems to work great.

Just thought I would share.
 
I did this for a mat cutter stand a few years ago. Lined the slelves with matboard, stapled them down to make it smooth and clean. It worked ok, just could not reach the other side. Good job, smart move, it will work as long as you need it to.

PL
 
Good Idea! Did you see the This Old House where they used pallet wood to make flooring in one of the houses? It looked great and was VERY inexpensive. Recycling at its finest...just like what you've done!
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I did leave the back side with 1' of clearance so I could get behind it.

I would like to see that floor. Tearing the slats off is not an easy task. They are built well. At least the good looking ones are.
 
My ex-husband furniture-store-owner made me a butcher block table out of pallet wood. It's beautiful, and I still have it after 30 years!
 
Tile, yes. The entire building has that terra cotta tile.

Marble, no. The wall is actually neater than that. Its those glass cubes. Somebody glued sheet rock onto it (sigh). CocaCola put that in origionally with the building and the landlord won't tear it down. In fact he cleaned all the sheetrock off it and plans to replace the broken ones and clean the glue off. The problem is that I can't put up shelves or attach anything to that wall. Its actually a bit of a problem.
 
How much room do you have to the right?
I might move it out away from the wall, put a nice top on it would make a nice work table.
 
I have 6' of clearance. I had actually thought of that if I don't take it all the way to the ceiling.
 
"The problem is that I can't put up shelves or attach anything to that wall. Its actually a bit of a problem."

what about a 2X4 framework against the blocks--affixed along top & bot--the you could stub onto the stringers for support & still have light showing thru blocks(if there IS light from the other side)...
how did you, if you removedthe xbracing, keep the 'uprights' from buckeling??? I'd think mending strips would work nicely, but would stick out, a little, yes?(nothing aglues down strip of mat couldnt overcome)

glad you did this---gives us all some fresh ideas!!! I like dougj's idea about makingtheminto work tables...simplicity!
 
There is no light from the other side.

I could build alot of things. It just would defeat the purpose of not spending money.

I'm not sure what you mean by keeping the uprights from buckeling? I have added about 6 more layers since the picture. The rack seems to be holding up and I haven't noted any ill effects to any moulding.
 
Jay, on the front and backside, I would invest in a sheet of 9/16 OSB and screw it to every-other pallet. That way it all hold together and nothing collapses. Great use of old pallets. My hats off to you.

BTW: I happen to know that the floor on TOH, had a hidden cost of refurbing that made the true cost double of new Oak.
 
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