Oh for goodness sake

[andrewducker]

I was just checking to see if anywhere else did slot shelving other than B&Q, as they've been so crap at actually supplying it.

And I discovered that nobody else does it in 2000mm pieces. They all do it in 1980mm lengths (78").

And that B&Q are stopping doing it in 2000mm lengths themselves.

So if I want to do the other part of my room in exactly the same style (rather than risking having the shelves be slightly higher or lower) then I'll have to get down there and pick some more up ASAP.

Of course this isn't helped by them not allowing me to order the pieces online.

Useless bastards.

Comments

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

I had the same non-matching slot shelving problem - fortunately only in my cupboard, so i bodged it by careful alignment (misalignment?) of the new bits.

I have to say, seeing as I have just been adding up my DIY receipts, the whole system is pretty damned expensive... but so convenient.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

Stock control at my local B&Q is appalling. I had to scrounge for brackets back in April - and it was literally months before they got any more in. Same with other stuff. Not enough till/returns/help staff either, never anyone on wood cutting... think that don't even pay peanuts, so can't even afford monkeys.

My local Tesco's is crap too - really crap. 9 times out of 10 that I go there there are quite literally totally empty shelves for at least half of the vegetables (fresh or frozen!). It's a 24-hour one too, so you think they could get up to date since they have staff about all the time...

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

I meant to say - so why??? Just people being crap cos they get paid next to nothing??

[nmg.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain.

Our original set of spur shelving was bought from Homebase in Bath. We expanded the shelving on another wall with a second set - unfortunately, Homebase had changed the spec (basically whether the slot pitch across the screw holes is the same as the slot pitch elsewhere) so that it was incompatible with the previous lot. They'd also gone from their own brand to a third-party name brand.

We moved to Southampton, and the shelves came with us. I bought some more shelving from B+Q, which was compatible with the new but not the old.

While griping to my colleagues about this at lunch, one of them pointed out that the University buys huge quantities of spur shelving and gets a really good deal. I checked. I cried. The prices through the university were about 15% of what I'd been paying from either Homebase or B+Q (20p per 15cm bracket, for example). I bought what I can only describe as a metric buttload, and added another 50m of shelving.

I intend to never buy spur shelving from anyone other than the University again.

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, when (a long time from now) I get around to shelving the garage ... any chance you could be buying one.point.five metric buttloads of spur shelving and have some left over you'd sell on to me? :-)