Nails...

OK, so these are the things that just completely and I mean completely boggle my mind.

I mean, really...

So the garage (the one that floods when it rains any significant amount) has some rough wood shelving installed on the west wall. Made out of 2 x4's nailed to the floor joists and hanging down to just a hair's breath from the garage floor.

Next there is a single 10 or 12 foot 2 x 4 running across, parallel with the wall and the floor and about 16 inches above the floor. This 2 x4 is nailed into the ones coming down from the ceiling.

Next there are some nice 18" long 2 x 4's nailed in to create ledges for shelves to sit on... well there are a couple of these only. The rest are little metal brackets.

So, some of the 2 x 4's are literally just nailed into the floor joist with like 2 nails total. This is suppose to hold shelves in a garage....

some have brackets.

Now, somebody along the line decided to pay about 75 cents to a 1.50 for each bracket (2 types) and there is probably a total of about 20 of them altogether.

Each bracket has 2 to 3 holes for nails/screws --- per flat area - meaning that each bracket uses anywhere from 4 to 6 nails/screws.

Well, I guess nails used to cost a bloody fortune cause EACH bracket, regardless if it had a total of 4 or 6 holes only had 2 nails - one for each side.

Now, I just spent like 4 days in the big box in a really loooooooong aisle of nails. Nails for days. I was looking for a 10d 1 1/4"... that is what the bracket said to use. Well, long 4 days standing there later... I come home with a 1 pound box of roofers nails that are 3d 1 1/4" cause the Big Box man said 10d's don't come that short in regular nails... whatever. That box was $2.37.

$2.37 - it has to have like a hundred nails in it.

I also bought more brackets to really shore the sucker up - cause last winter it came crashing down on me, and that was not fun at all.

So, do I only put one nail per bracket side in these $1.50 brackets????????

I mean, seriously, what could you possibly be thinking???? One nail?

I just don't freaking get it. 100 nails, $2.50ish with tax... they had to buy the brackets somewhere... even I, on the verge of selling matches and pencil's downtown could muster up the $ for the nails and will pound a nail in every bleeping hole in the daggone brackets.

So, big shock, the lower bits of the 2 x 4's have water damage. do ya think the slapped some primer and a cheap coat of spray paint on that bare wood before they left it in that garage that has like 2 to 3" of water sitting in it during the heavy rains?

Nooooooooooooooooooo.

So, I have some bits of primer and spray paint left around from last fall and am trying to get the wood dried out good so I can prime and paint it.

I mean really people... do people sleep all the way between 2nd grade and 8th grade?

Aarrrghh.

So I forgot and left my DDP in the freezer for 1.5 hours... not opening that puppy for a while.

Ok... back to making the shelves sturdy so I can get the garage in some sort of basic order.

CA day out there and my energy level is back to what it used to be in my former life. Gosh how I miss waking up ready to conquer the world. I cannot wait for fall, will be the energizer bunny before I hit that long winter hibernation.

Alrighty, back to the shelves.