ᐅ IKEA Boaxel shelving unit for the pantry—any experiences?

Heavy-duty shelving from toom, on offer for 19.99, and the best. You can fully load it (250 kg per shelf) until the feet sink into the screed...

Just wanted to say that we also initially had the IKEA junk in the pantry because we wanted to set it up quickly. After six months, all the shelves had sagged! There weren't even any heavy pet food cans on them, just pasta, flour, etc. But that stuff is only good for socks and bras. Now there’s a Tegometall shelving unit there – available in various depths. I think it will be there until we’re dead.

I have been using IKEA shelves— Ivar, Billy, and Pax — for years. None of the shelves have sagged, even though some have been heavily loaded. I have to give credit to the Swedish furniture maker here. My Billy shelves have been through three moves and are still standing — now in the basement, but they are still holding up well under load.

By the way, I couldn’t find Ivar the last time I checked. I wanted to add to our old Ivar units, but the new system is called Hejne and unfortunately is not compatible with Ivar. I still see IVAR online, but it was no longer available in Augsburg. Just a note for anyone wanting to expand their Ivar shelves...

In my opinion, all the heavy-duty shelves or shopfitting racks have a big disadvantage compared to the rail system: they come in fixed sizes. If that fits your needs, great — but otherwise, you lose usable space.

You can order boards of any kind for these systems online or simply buy them at a local hardware store (many offer cutting services for custom sizes).

I only recently bought Ivar again, in December, for a friend. And there are new items for IVAR. Hejne is a different system.

Our plywood floors already had a slight sag in the middle after years of holding many books. I wouldn’t want to store stacks of cans or similar on them. Anyway.
Our utility room is currently a bit messy too – and even when it’s properly tidied up, it still feels cluttered because it’s a storage area, not a living space. The goal is to have enough order to find everything without having to search too much.

Nordlys schrieb:

She is not right. Neither are you. You are being intrusive. You are judging other people’s lives. You can like Tomtom’s poster, ignore it, or if you don’t like him, simply stay silent. But statements like this are intrusive:
“A storage room in a student apartment is fine, but please not in a single-family house.”
Why not? Who sets the standard? What is the measure for right or wrong?
So, now go ahead and criticize me, I don’t care. Karsten

I just hope you don’t shed any tears because of me, it wouldn’t be worth it! And if I call a storage room what it is, I am certainly not judging anyone’s life.