Check out Lowes. They have a 5 shelf unit that may work. I think it's about $75.

Shelving By Design
5-Tier Wire Steel Chrome Shelving Unit

Larissa

Where did you find that? I could clip those Wonderlites on that!

Jane

Did you try Costco online? Also, Storables? Whitecat8

Costco: http://www.costco.com/Home.aspx?cm_mmc=Google--Brand-Main-Terms--CreativeC-_-Costco

As Larissa said I found mine at Lowes too. They come in chrome, white painted steel and wrought iron looking steel. They are very sturdy and I have never had a shelf sag regardless of what I put on them. You can adjust the shelves as you see fit for the height you need. I usually only use four shelves, not the fifth. It is easy to attach lights but you have to grow all plants in a drip container to make sure no moisture affects the lights below.

Nice windows!

Brooke

Here is mine...I got it at Lowe's, I think.
It's not really crooked...LOL...its the angle I held the camera. :0

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Jane it was part of the K-mart Martha Stewart collection . It's gone! It was 50$ and it is 4' like the balast tubes. The shelves are adjustable and its easy to move around. Yes then I clip lights all over it. It's exactly the height of my windows on top so its like having an extra window ledge. You know I thought it would be easy to find again. They seem to be making only 36". I have 1 36" rack. I lose light area and crack my shins on the tubes that stick out.

We don't have Lowes here but I will check on line. Chicago is pathetic. We don't have walmart in the city either. Politics.

Larissa thanks and WC. That Storeables has a cool one, that has an overhead cage type of rack! but I wonder if they ship and what the price is. I'll pay no more that 80$. I need at least 2 more... Jeez! What did I do to myself this summer? I am going to have to store my living room furnitute for the winter. Scott and I will have to be sleeping under a canopy of orchids!

Clara

Claritamaria, Menards has has some nice adjustable wire shelving for under 40.00. I think they are only 40 inches wide though. You should have a Menards in a suburb close to you.

The Lowes site lists a store in Chicago. I don't know how close it is to you. Good Luck!

LOWE'S OF CHICAGO-BRICKYARD, IL #1845
2630 N. NARRAGANSETT AVENUE
CHICAGO, IL 60639
(773) 413-5120
Fax: (773) 413-5123
M-SA 6-10, SU 8-8
Miles: 9 W

Larissa

Clarita and Jane: check out Sam's where I have been getting my carts. They are chrome, $50, and come with wheels and 5 shelves.

Mine are assembled as two separate two-shelf "benches", one with wheels and one without. But they can be assembled into a tall 5-shelf unit. They are 48" and deep enough to be untippable even when assembled tall.

I love mine.

They are very good looking, and the wheeled aspect is wonderful, makes them easy to move. I saw them in Worm's Way assembled tall and using t5's. They look great that way, too.

Lowes,

For my settup I placed 41-qt (34") sterlite sweater boxes with drain tubes glued (Gooped) into them on the racks. 2 boxes placed perpendicular to the shelf gives you about 6" overlap on each side for lower light plants, and they slide easily so you can place two sets of shelves in parallel about two feet apart and slide the boxes so that you can walk in between when you need to get at the plants. The 1/2" drain tubeing hanging down the inner side make it impossible to slide them too far. I placed a smaller set of shelves between them at the end to hold my plant stuff.

This is similar to the highly efficient greenhouse dragon tooth bench placement pattern.

Do you have a pic of that Spiced_ham? It sounds like a spill catcher too which would be greatly appreciated

Clara

I don't have a membership with Sams. I need 'head room' for my tall plants. An adjustable unit might work. I'd be interested in Spiced ham's also.

Jane

I don't have a picture, but imagine a letter 'E' with the three lines being the big wire racks from Lowes (about $75 each) and the two lines between them being whatever shelving units or mount wracks you want depending on your space. I am only using four of the fives shelves that come with the wire wrack. I suppose I could hang the fifth shelf at the end for hanging mounted plants.

My units are in a converted bedroom with black-white reflective grow room plastic hung up all over the place (stapled to 1x2 wooden furring strips which are then hung from only two nails in the wall. You could also nail the furring strip cross piece onto wooden uprights and hold those to the legs of the wracks with cable/zip ties. White fabric would work instead of plastic and could be sprayed down to increase humidity in the room.

I grow using hydroponics pots so there is a lot of water that must drain out when I water so I need to keep the pots up off the bottom of the trays. To do this I have 2 lengths/rails of 1" PVC held onto egg crate with cable/zip ties, to form a platform within each tray. The tube from each upper tray can go into the tray on the shelf below so you don't need to make extra long tubes for those. When not draining into a bucket you can simply loop the end of the tubes back into the trays

I have flower boxes at the end of the top shelves so that my pendant plants (Dend. superbum, Chysis etc.) can loop over while the narrowness of the box holds the pots. The lip of the box is held to the shelf wire in back with a bent piece of hanger .

The trays are simple to make. Note: the tube does not come up through the bottom, it comes out of the side. For several trays get a 20 ft roll of 1/2" clear tubing (plumbing section of Lowes or HD) because you will use 3-5 ft per tray. You need about 6 inches of tube glued inside the tray for strength. The tube lies on the bottom against an end wall with the tube coming straight out of the side NEXT TO the corner, not through the corner. I have it coming out at the end of a long side, glued against a short side.

Fist: Use soap and water to get the oily finish off of the plastic before using the Goop.

Second: Hold the tubing in a big pot of boiling water for a couple of minutes to get the bends out.

Third: make the hole in the box using a 1/2" spade drill bit, or melt it through with a soldering iron, or be slow and careful with the tip of a utility knife. If the box chips don't worry, just Goop the hole/crack closed around the tube.

Then: Cement the entire bottom of the tube in place and put a moderate weight on the tube to keep it in position for a couple of hours until the Goop sets (the lip of a can of soda lying on its side works). Use several coatings of Goop. After the first coating cover the whole tube plus an inch of tray on either side of the tube (for holding strength) and use a lot on the outside on the box and tube also. The goop will seem "set" a day after the last coating , but wait three for it to harden fully before moving the tray. Do all this in a well ventilated room. I get 2 to 3 trays out of one tube of Goop.

The egg crate is easy to cut. Just take the back of a heavy knife or saw and whack the square you want to start at. When the row is started whack again and apply pressure. The row will give way like a zipper.