Transformers Room Construction - any tips?

[Jetfire in the sky]

Looks great BTT, excellent size too. My personal preference for shelves is DIY custom, it allows more flexibility with varying sizes and styles of bots, using pine for frames, rails that are easily adjusted with the movable brackets, glass shelving and glass sliding doors. The main expense comes with the shelves, which on average for me have cost around $35 each, then the sliding doors which get into the $1000's. You can stage it too, so do one wall well planned that will take a lot of toys then have temporary shelves which don't cost too much (K-mart ones maybe) so that later down the track its not a big deal to change them over with the cabinet style.
I have been lucky with two of my main shelves in that one was from gumtree and fitted one wall perfectly, I think I got it for $120 and they even helped me get it to my house, that easily would have been $3000 brand new, the other cabinet was from a store closing down for $100. With the rails I connect them directly to my wall, the cabinet does not have a back piece, this allows for the rails to take a lot more weight.

[BigTransformerTrev]

Just found out we are probably going to be up for an extra couple of grand to get the ground levelled out and concrete braces put in around the side, since the land where the back of the shed will be is almost a full meter lower than where the front of the carport will be

That's awesome mate, hope it all goes well and according to plan.

Being external like that will you have proper insulation?

The stuff I have stored in the garage, I'm always worried about the extreme heat in summer and the cold in winter

Yeah the shed will be insulated. The shed at our old farm where the TF's were stored was not insulated and it often reached the mid 40's in Summer, but since the figures were in boxes within boxes they were OK. At our new place the problem is cold, in the winter it sometimes reaches -7 here So insulation is essential.

Looks great BTT, excellent size too. My personal preference for shelves is DIY custom, it allows more flexibility with varying sizes and styles of bots, using pine for frames, rails that are easily adjusted with the movable brackets, glass shelving and glass sliding doors. The main expense comes with the shelves, which on average for me have cost around $35 each, then the sliding doors which get into the $1000's. You can stage it too, so do one wall well planned that will take a lot of toys then have temporary shelves which don't cost too much (K-mart ones maybe) so that later down the track its not a big deal to change them over with the cabinet style.
I have been lucky with two of my main shelves in that one was from gumtree and fitted one wall perfectly, I think I got it for $120 and they even helped me get it to my house, that easily would have been $3000 brand new, the other cabinet was from a store closing down for $100. With the rails I connect them directly to my wall, the cabinet does not have a back piece, this allows for the rails to take a lot more weight.

The idea is that I build fairly cheap shelving to begin with, then as the years progress replace them peacemeal with better glass ones as and when I can afford it.

I'm intrigued by the idea of adjustable shelves with rails though - that's a really good idea I hadn't thought of! Got any pics or links to the kind of shelving you describe?

[Demonac]

I'm intrigued by the idea of adjustable shelves with rails though - that's a really good idea I hadn't thought of! Got any pics or links to the kind of shelving you describe?

I don't know how close to a Bunnings you live, but these are what I have:
Rails & Brackets.
If the room is closed off most of the time, then you shouldn't need glass fronts.

[KELPIE]

Just found out we are probably going to be up for an extra couple of grand to get the ground levelled out and concrete braces put in around the side, since the land where the back of the shed will be is almost a full meter lower than where the front of the carport will be

Ouch.

Could you do like a split level or something? Or would that make it even more expensive

Yeah the shed will be insulated. The shed at our old farm where the TF's were stored was not insulated and it often reached the mid 40's in Summer, but since the figures were in boxes within boxes they were OK. At our new place the problem is cold, in the winter it sometimes reaches -7 here So insulation is essential.

Thumbs up!

[BigTransformerTrev]

Couple of little updates:

*The High School library is replacing all their shelving and said all their old shelving was 'free to a good home'. Sadly when I contacted them they told me curtly it was for other classrooms only. Don't know why they worded their email the way they did then as I reread it and it was very misleading.

*The lot that were going to do the earthworks for us have fallen through which is frustrating as we need it done sooner rather than later and there are not that many companies out here. So desperately ringing round to see if we can get someone else ASAP.

*We can get away with just getting the drop on once side concreted, so it should be an extra $1500 rather than $4500

*Shed is looking like being constructed and ready to be delivered by July 8.

*Have an electrician ready to go, just need to figure out what kind of lighting the room will need and if I will want any power points.


So it's happening, despite the odd hitch here and there

[GoktimusPrime]

In my experience old school library shelves aren't very good for TFs anyway. I know that it would've saved you money but yeah... they're not deep enough for rows of toys.

[BigTransformerTrev]

In my experience old school library shelves aren't very good for TFs anyway. I know that it would've saved you money but yeah... they're not deep enough for rows of toys.

Yeah that slight leanback too means that the figures would have had to lean against the back as they wouldn't have been able to stand upright.

It was more they would have been useful as placeholders as it's going to take me months to actually build the amount of shelving I require.

[BigTransformerTrev]

Well today it all kicked off. Had blokes here digging a giant hole in my back paddock in order to use the soil to even out the spot in the driveway the shed is going. Cost $500 more than expected but was a bigger job than expected.

Also had the shed itself (in kit form) showed up on a VERY long truck!

So now just waiting for the slab to be concreted and then they start putting the shed together










Ah frag! I think Tinypic has gone the way of Photobucket and isn't letting me put free pics up anymore. Anyone got any other suggestions?