REIBII 2200LBS Storage Shelves 5 Tier Garage Shelving Heavy Duty, Adjustable Metal Shelving Unit, Garage Shelves for Basement, Warehouse, Pantry, Closet, Kitchen 72″ H x 35.55″ W x 16″ D, Black

Exxcellent shelves but get the right tools for assembly
I purchased three of these shelves for my garage and assembled them in about two hours total. The metal is finished well (the finish looks like a tough powder coating) and I think they’ll hold plenty of weight once assembled. As other customers have noted, the metal struts are made of thin material and they will bend easily, so a lot of the shelving unit’s final strength comes from the fully assembled structure. The shelving kit includes a toy plastic hammer for assembly. It did nothing, as other reviewers have noted. I think the addition of cotton work gloves to protect your hands was a very thoughtful gesture by the manufacturer. However, I used my own heavy work gloves with a non-slip coating. For proper assembly and maximum strength, I advise using a rubber mallet, which will have the necessary mass to drive the shelving’s metal struts home. I used the mallet by itself to assemble the first of my three shelving units and found that the mallet easily bent the metal struts, so I added a 10-inch piece of 1×3 scrap wood to my assembly toolkit. By positioning the wood on top of the fold where the shelf will eventually sit, I was able to bang on the wood and drive the metal struts home so they full engaged the keyhole slots for maximum assembled strength and did not bend any more metal struts in the process. The wood block spreads the mallet’s impact over the strut’s strongest point (the shelf ledge formed into the strut) and therefore avoids bending the metal. Don’t forget to add the center shelf supports before installing the thin hardboard shelves, again for maximum strength. You need to bend the two metal tabs on the center supports before installing them. The support is made of thin metal, which bends easily with just fingers. Each shelving unit is supplied with two silver locking pins for tying multiple shelving units together. I found these locking pins to be very useful and, again, needed my block of wood to fully drive the locking pins into the keyholes. I also found that the struts on the assembled shelves tended to pop out as I moved the assembled shelves into place and locked them together with the pins, so be sure to check and make sure all of the metal struts are still fully engaged after you get everything set in place. If one strut pin does disengage, It’s a simple matter to pop a strut and bang it back in place. Do all this right and you’ll end up with a fairly strong set of shelves for a very low price. These shelving units cost half of what I paid for four other units I installed in my garage two years ago yet they’re nearly as strong and hold more stuff, although I doubt they’re as study. I don’t store a lot of heavy stuff, but I’ve got a lot of tools and other things to store. One final warning: there are corner brackets that tie each pair of corner struts together to make a full-height unit. I failed to see the word “UP” stamped on the bracket and didn’t assemble the first shelf correctly. Although the shelves will work if these brackets are upside down, if you don’t get it right, you won’t be able to fit the plastic locking pins into place on the brackets. For maximum strength, I had to partially disassemble and reassemble my first shelving unit due to my own lack of attention. The markings are there, but they’re hard to see in a typically lit garage. It cost an extra minute to fix my mistake, so it’s well worth redoing if you make the same misstep. For what they are and what they cost, I think these are excellent shelving units.

Saves so much space! Very sturdy
In need of more storage space in basement workshop and bought this after several days of comparing products. It’s among the few more affordable and neat looking ones.The installation is very easy- as an expecting mom I was able to put up both shelves under 2 hours! The frame is metal and the tray is thick cardboard that fits right onto the shelves. You can assemble each shelf in two half height pieces then combine them together. There’s 12 protective pieces in each box (but you only need 4 per large shelf) so that you can actually assemble it to to four half height shelves if needed.