Storage solutions around the workshop

[Riggly]

has anyone some good ideas that they might want to share regarding the storage of sheet materials and lumber around the workshop? I have built a strong cradle that accepts around 25 sheets of 8x4 on their side and i can move it around my shop with a pallet truck so as to slide them out of the ends. I seem to have a problem that a lot of other people must share and that is what do you do with sheets under say a 1/3 of a sheet and when are they just fit for the fire? there is only so many paint stirring sticks one man can have shirley. I was thinking of storing lumber on a steel frame supported from the ceiling as a timber one i made previosly bowed under the weight and so did some of the timber on it. My ceiling is very strong (4 joists and a 6" steel angle bolted together in some places) and i have a habit of slightly testing the engineering shall we say.

 

[joiner_sim]

In the commercial workshop I work in, we have that much space on our mezzanine floor level that we just throw all our plywood offcuts up there, anything that is over 1000x500 we keep.

 

[matt]

I tend to buy 8x4's and get them delivered on the day I need them. They get cut up straight away. I do have a rack that will take an 8x4 but it's got a couple of radiators in it at the moment :?

As for smaller bits (and doors - I seem to have a lot of full size doors :? ) - I have a second space between a couple of filing cabinets (means I can adjust the space occasionally) and a wall which holds material of "smaller sheet size / offcuts.

Other timber goes up in a rack hanging from the ceiling. I'm getting better at storing this stuff so I can find it and not just keep buying more!