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I debated on whether to put this in prepping or here, or make another sub called home improvement. I think it is good for homesteading though.

For me, the general goal of home steading has been to become more self sufficient. Along with that comes having the tools and supplies to do so. Sometimes that means things like grain storage and the grinder to grind the grain, or canning supplies, or storing 5 gallons of home made laundry soap at a time... This created a big demand on organization as well as the space to do so.

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Our home is spacious but has little storage existing. The shelving that existed here was poorly installed(no wall anchors and no effort to put into studs). So I removed and replaced in studs where I could and anchored what I couldn't, then added two additional shelves in the studs using a kreg jig, tripling my space. This is also going to be done in the rest of the closets in the house, all of them have at least 3' above the top shelf. The boards were $24 for 8' x 12" x 1" pine. Costs are way up from two years ago, however it's well worth the money to have a place for everything. You could also do two six inch boards or three four inch, if you have access to free/lower cost.

I debated on whether to put this in prepping or here, or make another sub called home improvement. I think it is good for homesteading though. For me, the general goal of home steading has been to become more self sufficient. Along with that comes having the tools and supplies to do so. Sometimes that means things like grain storage and the grinder to grind the grain, or canning supplies, or storing 5 gallons of home made laundry soap at a time... This created a big demand on organization as well as the space to do so. https://pic8.co/sh/lHG20c.jpg Our home is spacious but has little storage existing. The shelving that existed here was poorly installed(no wall anchors and no effort to put into studs). So I removed and replaced in studs where I could and anchored what I couldn't, then added two additional shelves in the studs using a kreg jig, tripling my space. This is also going to be done in the rest of the closets in the house, all of them have at least 3' above the top shelf. The boards were $24 for 8' x 12" x 1" pine. Costs are way up from two years ago, however it's well worth the money to have a place for everything. You could also do two six inch boards or three four inch, if you have access to free/lower cost.

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Trust me, I (also resentfully at first) began making the switchover. I still use a lot of the 18v tools, but have destroyed almost every original battery at this point from charge cycles.

I think with the dewalt adapter they might warn of it, but it’s very very slow, and you should be keeping your batteries on charge when on extended break. And yes, it’s a pain in the ass to get the adapter and the batteries in and out. (Especially the adapter)

Nice work on the shelves. Very clean.