Keeping track of the trim stock on a complicated job can be a real headache. If there are multiple profiles and widths of casings, moldings, crowns, and base, the space required to store and inventory them properly can be considerable. The drawing shows how my colleague Mathew Marzynski and I solved the problem on a recent job.
The rack is composed of four individual bents made of 1×4 pine. Each bent is 5 ft. tall, with a 3-ft. crossbar at the top. The two lower crossbars are 4 ft. long. A diagonal 1×4 runs the entire length of the rack, adding stability to the assembly. Another 1×4, run flat along the underside of the top crossbars, further braces the bents horizontally.
We easily stacked 500 bd. ft. of oak on this rack last summer. Excluding the floor beneath the rack, there are seven distinct areas for storing materials, and the rack may be loaded from either the sides or the ends.
M. Felix Marti, Ridgway, CO
Edited and Illustrated by Charles Miller
From Fine Homebuilding #67
