It’s a busy life, and whether you are in business or running a home there’s always a huge amount to think about.

Often, storage is the last thing on our minds – and yet the consequences of inadequate storage have a real impact on our lives. Stock that should be carefully kept on racks and shelves lies around on the floor getting damaged; staff can’t find it, so customers can’t buy it – and it does no good to your brand and reputation to have a messy store or warehouse.

At home, too, if there is nowhere to put anything, everything lies around in a heap. Toys, for instance, clutter the floor and can cause a real hazard when a simple set of shelves with storage boxes could restore order and tranquillity in the home!

We know that storage is sometimes forgotten, so we make our website easy to browse. That way, you can see and order exactly what you need rapidly and easily – and you may be surprised at how little our shelving and racking ranges will cost you.

We deliver swiftly and efficiently, because once you have decided to reorganised your storage, we know you want to get on with it.

And we know you will be pleased with the results, whether you have bought racks and shelves for home or for your business. No clutter, everything available to hand when you need it and no stock loss – it’s a far better way to enjoy your home or working environment.

Storing wine properly will make sure it tastes as good as possible when you do want to open the bottle. The right racking and storage methods make all the difference, especially if you want to lay down a high quality bottle or two to mature for a special occasion. There is no reason you can’t buy a good but young wine at a nice cheap price then let it age for a few years in your own cellar.

In fact, you don’t really need a cellar. Not everyone has a one and not everyone has a huge amount of time and money to devote to building a fine collection, but that doesn’t mean you can’t keep your own wines. A garage will do just as well as long as the temperature stays more or less constant. The storage room should feel a little chilly but not freezing cold.

Bottles should be placed on their sides. This keeps the corks from drying out and shrinking, which can let air into the bottle and spoil it. If you place each one with the label side up you’ll be able to tell if sediments are forming just by looking at the bottle. You don’t need special racking – cardboard boxes full of horizontally stacked bottles will do just fine.

In fact, boxes are sometimes helpful. Ideally a wine space should be dark, and if you want to use the cellar or garage for other things it’s a good idea to ensure the wine is kept away from the light.

Most parents are busy parents and that means they probably don’t have the time to build their kids’ furniture from scratch. The idea is appealing- making something lasting your children can use with your own two hands sounds like a wholly satisfying activity but it’s not always practical. You would need a garage or workshop big enough to make a full sized storage rack and still be able to get it up to where it will need to be. You’d need the right wood, the right tools, and quite a lot of know-how.

Still, you don’t have to abandon the idea completely. Most shelves ordered over the internet come flat packed (as do those bought from a number of large furniture retailers). It’s a far cry from building a storage rack from scratch, but you can assemble these yourself. They usually come with instructions and you won’t need a whole toolbox.

Teenagers can help with the assembly of their own flat pack furniture but younger kids should be kept out of the room in case of accidents. If you want to add a personal touch or get younger members of the family involved, you can always paint the shelves yourself. As long as you put down plenty of newspapers and old sheets to prevent spills and stains there is no reason why little kids can’t help. They can pick the colours for their own furniture and have fun helping mum and dad.

Kids of all ages should be supervised at all times, especially around paint thinners and oil-based paints, but it’s a fun and simple job. A good tip is to pour just a little paint into a try and keep everything else safely out of reach.

As the conveniences of the modern world becomes more and more profound, our hunger for space seems to similarly increase. In smaller homes, this can put real pressure on a living space, to the extent that it can undermine both the aesthetics and functionality of the home.

Luckily, one of the features of the modern world is that where problems arise solutions are sure to follow. In regards to spatial management this is definitely the case, and nowadays there are lots of ways to increase the spatial potential of your home, and usurp the space lost to incorrectly stored goods.

When you choose furniture for you home, and you are concerned that space in the home is constrained, you may consider choosing items that have spatial management built in. For example, if you are choosing a dining room table, but are concerned about the loss of space, then you might consider a table that can be folded and stored easily, which will essentially give you the best of both worlds.

Often the best storage solutions to problems are the most simple. Storage racks, although relatively basic, can in fact revolutionize the space in your home and increase the quality of a space by freeing it from incorrect storage of goods.

Whilst you might think that storage racks will only work effectively in certain rooms of the home, such as home offices or utility rooms, they can be equally at home in livable spaces, such as living rooms or bedrooms. This is because modern living spaces strive to contend with items such as DVDS, CDS or computer games, all of which can be effectively stored using a rack or shelf.

There are still some industrial and commercial businesses that use time clocks and time cards. Depending upon the size of the business, different time and clock cards are available to suit most applications.

There is the time recorder ideal for the smaller business. Typically they will be robust and will have such features as:
• A clear, easily readable analogue display
• They will print as many as six columns on a time card which would then be stored in wall mounted storage racks
• The time card will be automatically fed through the clock
• They will be able to automatically adjust forward and backwards for the British Summer Time (BST) and Greenwich Meantime (GMT) changes
• It will be possible to either mount them on the wall or on a table. This is especially useful as wall mounting will be preferred where space is limited

A more expensive model might suit larger businesses and would usually have all the standard features of the cheaper model, including a storage rack for the time cards, as well as:
• A time signal to be used when bells are required
• Multi-coloured printing is available
• The time clock can be programmed to record and print in/out movements of employees

If job costing will be needed, the perfect solution for this is a date and time stamp. This model will typically have features such as:
• A precise record of time and date
• There will be several options for the print format
• A memory backup for five years

These days more than ever before, businesses need to cut wasteful and profit reducing aspects of their businesses as much as possible. Forklift or industrial trucks are essential to any warehouse operation but need space to move around. This floor space is going to cost the company in terms of potential storage room lost.

However there is now an industrial truck known as the Very Narrow Aisle (VNA) forklift truck. In a low bay warehouse, the VNA truck can increase the capacity of the warehouse by up to 30%. This machine can work in a space of 1.6 metres and lift a 1500 kg load to a height of over seven metres. Since the VNA truck needs very little room in which to operate, it will be possible for the warehouse manager to stack extra pallets closer together or erect more racking systems.

Typically, the VNA truck has a chassis of just over a metre in width and a narrow front axle. This allows it to be utilised in the block stacking of pallets. It also has tough cushion tyre and front wheel drive which make it perfect for use in slippery conditions. Some of these particular industrial trucks do not require guide rails which gives them added flexibility in that they are able to take pallets from the goods received part of the warehouse and stack them away or take full pallets to the processing area of the warehouse or take them to a road vehicle ready to be despatched.

The forklift truck is, without doubt, one of the most important assets a business that needs to move heavy goods around could own.

In a large warehouse such as the supply depots belonging to supermarkets, these industrial trucks will move pallets of produce onto supply lorries quickly and efficiently. There are many different types of industrial trucks now available but for the purpose of this article let us focus on the counterbalanced forklift.

Typically, the counterbalanced forklift will have as its counterweight a block of cast iron. Depending upon the weight of this iron block, the lift will have a set weight lifting capability when its forks are lifting to their maximum height. This weight must never be exceeded because of the danger of the truck toppling over. A plate fastened to the truck will provide appropriate information.

The truck’s mast is the vertical assembly set at the front of the truck and raises or lowers the load. It is also made up of interlocking rails. These rails give it lateral stability. It is operated by one or more of the hydraulic tilt cylinders attached to the truck’s frame and mast. Alternatively the mast may be chain operated using a hydraulic motor.

The carriage, to which the forks or other accessories are attached, is mounted the mast rails and moves up and down them either by using the chains or alternatively it might be attached to the hydraulic cylinder.

The forklift is usually powered by either diesel internal combustion engine or electricity supplied by batteries or fuel cells.

To make best use of the greenhouse, you should remember that you have height to utilise, not just floor space.  A greenhouse with high eaves is a real advantage because you can attach shelving to the roof supports. Since heat rises, these shelves are especially handy for plants that will benefit from the extra warmth. There are cheap brackets that are purpose built to attach to the roof of an aluminium greenhouse.

These brackets will hold, for example, 10 inch shelves which are perfect for holding seed trays. With the installation of watering mats which will soak up a great deal of water, you can be certain your plants will not dry out. If you have tomato plants growing though, during the summer, fixed shelving will unfortunately get in the way. There is, however, a perfect solution to this problem in the shape of integral shelving that folds away for the summer.

For example, an inexpensive workstation can be easy to install and with the use of a few woodscrews could be utilised in a wooden greenhouse as well as an aluminium one.

Greenhouses, however, are mostly used for propagation and heated propagation shelves are available as well as soil warming cables, thermostats and so on. Should you not have an electricity supply to the greenhouse, there is still a way of providing extra protection and warmth for the more delicate plants with the use of a propagator inside the greenhouse. This will reduce the need to worry if there is a sudden cold snap.

Once the preliminary processes of reading the instructions, checking the components are all present and correct and you have the necessary tools to carry out the assembling of your piece of flat-pack furniture you can now progress to the next stage of the project.

One advantage of having shelving systems, storage racks, bookcases and other furniture primarily designed to store items in the loft is that they will easily fit through the entrance to the loft in their flat-pack form. Another benefit of this is that, should you wish to move house in the future and assuming glue has not been used, the furniture can be broken down again and reassembled in your new home.

If the furniture is destined for the living room, bedroom or kitchen, then it is probably best to carry out the assembling of the furniture in your workshop. This is especially important if glue is to be used and accidental staining of the carpet to be avoided.

Take care not to rush the job, careless mistakes from being in too much of a hurry can sometimes lead to damage to part of the units that will be impossible to repair. If glue and dowels are to be used be sure to wear appropriate safety gear such as a face mask. Also make sure the work area is well ventilated. Be sure to take regular breaks from the job, even if it is only for a few minutes to have a cup of coffee or stretch your legs.

The use of mobile racking, such as roller racking, in many kinds of business environment will enable the purchaser to be a lot more versatile in his or her use of storage methods. Shelves that are adjustable are an obvious means of providing flexibility since a warehouse may need to stock seasonal products or having fluctuating inventories.

Collapsible storage racks that can be stored easily away when not in use are very useful as well.  A small shop will often benefit greatly by being able to utilise as much space as possible in a probably already crowded stock room.

However mobile racking can also be made use of in the domestic sphere. For example, a mobile extending shoe rack can be a great boon in the house. Its rails can be extended then locked in place. This particular shoe rack has castors which make it easy to move around the house or to simply be pulled out to clean behind.

A storage rack containing several drawers is also available and measures 81h x 20w x 39d and will cost roughly £35 to £40. It too has castors and can be moved from the bathroom to the bedroom. The drawers are typically made from sturdy plastic and can be used to store spare toiletries or towels.

Another style of mobile rack can be seen in use in universities and other similar facilities in their cafeteria areas. Mounted on castors for ease of movement, this model of rack has slots into which the diners can insert trays holding used plates and cups.