Amazon Basics 5 Shelf Storage Unit With Height Adjustable
Amazon Basics 5 Shelf Storage Unit With Height Adjustable Shelves and Levelling Feet, 453 kg Max Weight, Black, 34 cm D x 58.9 cm W x 152.4 cm H
| Weight: | 6.7 kg |
| Dimensions: | 58.9 x 34 x 152.4 cm (L x W x H) |
| Brand: | Amazon Basics |
| Model: | WSF-LD-142460-B-5 |
| Colour: | Black |
| Dimensions: | 58.9 x 34 x 152.4 cm (L x W x H) |
Great product, easy set up, very sturdy, nice industrial look. Even had to buy my brother one, and thinking of getting another, but they have put up the price . Not impressed with that .
It’s sturdy and the quality is surprisingly good. The paint is smooth and scratch resistant and all the parts ( including the wheels) are solid. I bought similar products before, though they all functioned pretty well there were always problems like metal burrs or uneven paint which would cut your fingers when assembling. Not this one. Highly recommended!
This is the 3rd time I’ve bought this unit .because it’s so useful!!! Great in the kitchen and utility for general storage. Great gif under the stairs to keep the cupboard tidy!
Rolls into my hallway storage cabinet.
Easy storage for easy retrieval of items.
Pull it out find what is needed in a storage box or tool box then push it back in.
Shelves can be height adjusted
Great for what I needed.
I needed some quick shelving in a closet, these shelves fit well so I ordered 3 sets. They’re well built, easy and quick to assemble, and stable (don’t forget to adjust the feet if it seems wobbly at first). I wouldn’t hesitate to buy more for the right requirement.
I have been purchasing these shelves for several years now. Whenever I require a storage solution to organize my living space, this product is always my go-to choice. It offers excellent resistance and stability, and you can easily place a wide range of items on them, be it in the kitchen, bathroom, for food storage, and more. I highly recommend these shelves for their versatility and durability.
Shelves must be fitted with their lip downwards as the corner tube fittings are tapered in order to slip over the plastic lugs and compress them.
Just choose your height for each shelf and count the rings up from the previouse one.
These shelves can seem flimsy when you first use them, as they do bow, but they are actually nice & sturdy. They also look quite smart & have added quite a lot of extra storage space to my small kitchen.
Bought 2 of these. The instructions they come with are useless so I initially struggled to put them together. But then I found a video on Youtube which made it straight-forward, and I put them both together on my own fairly quickly. The frames are sturdy. Great to be able to customise the height of the shelves, and love that they are on casters as mine are inside a cupboard and it’s great to be able to wheel them out.
I like indoor plants and this will be my indoor garden, just got it, put it together reasonably quickly.A few more words in the instructions would have helped.No pics yet as I have to grow the plants.Very sturdy, exactly what I wanted
Simple yet clever storage rack with all shelves being adjustable. Of simple construction and suitable for most domestic applications – and a cost-effective and great way to tidy up an area!
Got this at a reduced price as part of Prime Day. Very easy to put together, especially if you watch the video. Seems sturdy and is perfect for our shed.
I recently moved and although I love my new house the storage space is sorely lacking. Anyway the ‘understairs’ cupboard opens in the kitchen, so I bought 2 of these shelves to organise my plastic food containers etc.
They are quite sturdy, easy to build and look lovely in my cupboard. They come with a choice if static feet or wheels.
Delivered on time with adequate but not excessive packaging.
Would definitely recommend.
Purchased this stand for storing all my ninja products and I can say it is just perfect. It keeps them all in the same place and enables me to pull out the stand when it’s needed. Really strong and sturdy, great quality and excellent value for money.
I dropped 1 star as I have another similar shelf system and the plastic parts the shelves sit on are not as well made on this one compared to that. However this one did have two extra features that improved the design. The plastic parts have the word “Top” and an arrow so you know which way up to couple them together on the poles. Also the poles have a double line every five lines making it easier to work out on the other poles to match the height when adding the plastic parts. I agree the instructions for this were a bit limited so here are some tips.
TIP 1 – Make sure you distinguish which are the 4 x top poles and which are the 4 x bottom poles by looking at the ends first. You will be able to clearly see you have 4 with holes in the bottom that look different to the other poles.
TIP 2 – Always start building with the bottom shelf and the 4 x bottom poles first just to get a feel for what you are doing – I put my bottom shelf on the very first line so it is stable. If you put the poles together first then you have a lot more trouble adding and removing shelves.
TIP 3 – Keep the shelves relatively loose at first as you may find you want to adjust the shelves and it is easier if you haven’t tried to completely fix it in place by putting all your weight on them to fix into the black plastic pieces.
TIP 4 – We got two extra black plastic pieces in a yellow bag. They are not special apart from being spare in case you break or lose some.
TIP 5 – I find it is easier to build these with two people but it can be done with 1 person if you turn the shelves on their side instead of upright.
TIP 6 – If building in a different room make sure you have checked you can get it in the final place and decide if you need to build in two halves before moving.
I hope that helps if you are struggling with building it. Good luck and thank you for reading.
Next point to mention is the claim it can hold 115KG per shelf. This is 100% misleading. Even a relatively small amount of force, say pushing down with your hand, will bend the shelf in the middle. I bought it to house my upright pc and Xbox series X but I cant have them stood in line next to each other, as the sag in the middle would mean that they both lean into each other. Paraphs a 115KG flat slab, spreading all its weight over all the bars, might work. But a 115KG sphere would bend and push through the shelves like they were not even there. And I expect even 30 or 40KG would deform the bars, so much that they warp permanently. I’m also pretty confident that 115KG would sheer the plastic locking parts. They’re only holding on by a couple mill of plastic.
Negatives aside, there are some really decent design points for this product. All the shelves are adjustable, so much so that they intermix with other units, like a previous buyer has shown pictures of. I needed a unit for my awkward shaped tall PC, and this let me choose the shelf hight very easily. Someone mentioned a problem with the plastic locking parts, but they all fit fine for me (metal bur corrected). With it all having a lot of airing space, I’d say its ideal for my use, as the PC and Xbox get super hot, so the bars allow air to cool them better. It’s not going to be winning any style awards any time soon, but it also doesn’t look to bad either.
Overall, for an Amazon Basic product, it’s well worth the money. Plus, if you get a dud, Amazon are pretty good at sorting out replacements of their own products really quick.
Five minutes in I was cross. Fifteen minutes in, pretty miffed (I am, after all, British). 45 and I was ready to smash it to smithereens.
The first mistake is to start, as instructed, with two little black clippy things. You try to clip them round the leg, as instructed. They don’t fit! They don’t meet! Occasionally they make a seductive little “click!” and your heart leaps! Until you realise that was YOUR side clicking and the other side has now unclipped. Cue gnashing of teeth. You repeat this, hoping those two clips were a manufacturing anomaly, on all the legs, getting progressively more livid. They aren’t. They’re all crap. You need Another Way. Don’t do any of this. Read on instead.
First thing – look at one of the shelves. At each corner, there is a metal tube. This tube is your friend. Not only does it fit over the pole but (something you’ll only discover after an hour of gnashing and wailing) it FITS OVER THE CRAPPY CLIPPY THINGS! HA! If you know this, you’ll also realise that the 1mm – 2mm gap where the crappy clippy thing doesn’t meet its partner DOESN’T MATTER. Got it? This is important. If you don’t know this the whole thing will go in the bin before you’ve got a shelf on. Hang on to this. It’ll keep you sane.
Right. 2. Grab two clippy things. You’ll be momentarily convinced there are two types. There aren’t. You’ve got one upside down. Make sure they are both the correct way up (with “top” pointing up). Put one of the crappy clippy things on to the pole and (this is CRUCIAL) make sure the little ridge inside the clippy thing is sitting into a groove on the leg. This ensures the crappy clippy things will only NOT meet by 2mm rather than, say, at all. Now clip the other side of the crappy clippy thing into the first one. Have you made sure they’re both pointing up? Both fitting into the leg groove? Good, then you’re fine. They won’t meet. This DOESN’T MATTER.
Do this at the same height on the four legs. Grab a shelf and lay it on the floor with its surface-that-will-have-things-on-it is facing a wall. Pokey a leg through a corner tube, right through until your first clip gets to the tube. In it goes! Snug as a bug and (this was my eureka moment) holding the crappy clippy thing pair together so they can’t boing apart. Ha! Repeat, poking the other three legs through and then stand it up. Feel marginally smug.
Put four more clips on, wherever you want your second shelf. Again, make sure the ridge and the groove are together, and make sure both have “top” facing up. When you have all four on, grab another shelf and GENTLY lower it down over the four poles. You may want help here – you want to get each corner tube at least a few mm over each crappy clip so they can’t ping off. Once all are slightly covered, go right ahead and bang that shelf down hard so all the clips are covered. Boom.
Repeat for the third one. Have a nice glass of icy Sauvignon and admire your work. You did not have a stress-related coronary. You’ve won.
As a side note: did anyone else get seduced by social media images of one of those over the sink drainer jobbies? I did. Then discovered they are between 50 and 80. Ha! Hahaha! No. I looked at all manner of wire shelves (Google “Elfa”) but, with wall bars etc, couldn’t get them cheap enough (I’ve done the leg work for you. Don’t bother. Everything else is more expensive). Then I found this. Fits the useless end bit of my work surface perfectly. The shelves are wire, so the dish water drains through. AND (bonus smuggery buggery points here) my plates, saucers and the dog bowls all slot into the shelf wires like they were made for them. BUHAHA HAHA.
I have reserved a chrome cutlery drainer at Dunelm Mill (3. 7 on here) and intend to attach it with S hooks to the shelf edge. I’m also going to screw the whole lot to the wall because I made some teeny weeny errors in measurement and one light sneeze and this whole shooting match is going sideways onto the tiled floor. But that’s not Amazon’s fault, it’s mine.
So, I have a fabulous, three tier drainer for 25. My plates etc fit perfectly and it all drains onto a tea towel. No longer am I washing stuff up and trying to jam the clean stuff amongst the filthy stuff on the teeny weeny drainer. This thing is perfect. And cheap. And sturdy (once you get the hang of it).
My blood pressure has returned to normal and I have icy wine to drink and smug staring to do. Good luck, brave assemblers. You can do this. I believe in you.
If you buy the similar 3 or 4 shelf unit, much of what I say will be the same, just ignore the bit about the second half of the pillers.
The MAIN problem people seem to encounter is putting them togther. The instructions are a bit uclear but the secret is making sure the corner pieces CLICK INTO the dips on the poles, and sliding the shelf down into the 4 corner pieces simulatneously so they don’t pop out or slip. With that in m ind, read on …
1) The systen is packed in the right order to put it up (well, mine was).
Start by taking out the first shelf and placing it where the unit is going to be positioned, with the NARROW side of the corner mounts UP (yes it looks odd, but the ‘lip’ edges of the shelves face down = this is so you can slide stuff on and off the shelves without the ‘lip’ getting in the way).
2) Unwrap the first two pillers. Note these have internal screw threads – the smaller hole is the bottom :-). Lift off the second shelf and place it nearby .. Then unwrap the second pair of pillers.
3) Open the parts bag. Find the FEET. Screw one foot about half way into the end of each piller (do it now = once the shelves are assembled you will have to tip it over to fit the feet or risk crushed fingers)
4) Right, next comes the secret of getting the unit level and the shelves in the right positions.
a) Place one piller in each corner of the pre-positioned shelf. This will align the pillers upright in the 4 corners.
b) Decide how much space you need under the shelving. This is best done by placing whatever box etc. is going under onto the pre-positioned shelf on the floor and noting where it comes up to on one corner piller. Yes, this means you will add an inch to the space, but thats all to the good everyone overfills storage boxes.
c) Find one pack of 8 corner support halves. There is a ridge inside each half piece . This goes UP !
Snap one half onto the piller and slide it down until the ridge clicks into one of the dips on the piller.
Sliding it onto the dip is the only easy way to be sure it’s lined up on a dip and not floating between dips.
To get the other 3 corners absolutly right, just take them all out and line them all up on the floor. You can then snap the supports on at the same level. WARNING. there are some ‘double dips’ in the pillers. This might help with counting dips when lining up BUT you can end up with supports on different dips ! To use a double dip, I slid the corner support DOWN onto the top dip of the pair (the bottom one seemed to be slightly shallower).
Place the pillers back into the corners of the shelf on the floor and check there is a good inch between the bottom of the support and the top of the box or whatever is going to fit under the bottom shelf.
5) With all 4 pillers being held aligned by the shelf on the floor, slide the other shelf carefully down from the top (with the WIDE part of the coner DOWN) onto the 4 corner supports. Then press into place. Once you have done this, you can remove the shelf on the floor which you used to position the unit and align the 4 pillers.
6) For each of the next shelves, do them one at a time and leave AT LEAST one dip between the top of whatever box you are using to set the shelve position. I actually used a box on the first shelf and moved it to each corner in turn to get the position right
TYPICALLY you will have 3 shelves on the bottom pillers.
7) Unpack the rest of the pillers and screw them in. Then assemble the rest of the shelves.
8) BEFORE loading the unit with boxes full of stuff, adjust the FEET to level the unit. NOTE after leveling I unscrewed the front feet a bit extra so the whole unit was pressing firm abckwards against the wall == otherwise you should use the anti-fall-over kit they supply.
9) IF you get a shelf in the wrong position, it is a relativly simple task to knock it back up and unclip the supports UNLESS you already loaded it with +++kg’s ! Then it’s a bit harder, best done with a lump hammer and an old book to prevent shelf damage, one corner at a time.
10) The extra corner pieces in the yellow bag are SPARES in case you loose some 🙂
Finally, the black plastic coin packing spacer pieces really are needed to protect the shelve corners during shipping. Two were crushed on the borttom two selves of my pack but the shelf corners themselves were fine.
My final observatiuon is that whilst the shelves might be best placed in a corner to take advantage of the walls to stop stuff falling off, the average house never seems to have perfectly straight 90 dgeree corners. So the two walls and floor are never in perfect corner alighment. In my case, the FEET allowed enough correction so the shelving could be pushed tight into the corner, however this required a lot of fiddling.
GOOD LUCK !
Easy to move
Lightweight but still strong
Adjustable shelves (1″ increments)
Quick and easy to assemble without tools
Levelling feet included as well as castors (feet hold more weight)
Black ones plastic coated, so suitable for damp environments
Positives with these shelves:
Shelves have 15 wires, so stronger than those with only 10
Large 6 cm castors
Negatives:
The top shelf does not sit right at top of pole, but about 1 cm below (on chrome model)
Castors are not replaceable (use 5 mm bolts, not available to buy)
Not modular
No spare parts available
I now have 4 of these shelves in different sizes and by different brands, all similar prices. They are very useful, especially being able to move them. Quick and easy to assemble without tools (30 mins tops), shelves are adjustable in 1″ increments, and they’re lightweight for moving around/moving house, but still strong. This one measures 59 x 34 x 82 cm, including the poles sticking up above top shelf. Don’t like that: didn’t notice that with the chrome one, the top shelf does not sit right at the top of the poles, but about 1 cm below (doesn’t look to be the case with black one). This isn’t a problem if you don’t want to put anything larger than the shelf on the top, but my plant trays are slightly larger..
On the plus side, the shelves have 15 wires, whereas some only have 10, which makes these more stable and stronger.
Mainly, the weight restrictions are due to the castors, in my view. On levelling feet, I can’t see these shelves breaking under even heavy loads. The castors are larger than on some others, 6 cm diameter. But the fastening bolts are still 5 mm diameter — too small to use standard castors as replacement, which is very annoying and a failing with most of these cheaper shelves. You can’t buy castors with anything smaller than 8 mm bolts anywhere, as far as I can see. Once a castor breaks, you can only use the feet, or replace the whole shelf (as I had to do with my previous one).
I use these for plants/seed trays, and saw a few enquiries about wet/damp environments: outdoors/greenhouse/balcony/for plants etc. After buying, I realised that the black version is far more suitable for this, as plastic coated, so far less likely to rust. My chrome shelves are starting to rust in places — can be removed with elbow grease and WD40, but is work intensive. My black shelves, however, have not rusted at all . Would say the black ones are suitable for using in greenhouse/for plants/on covered balcony etc, but think outdoors they would probably still rust (at least eventually).
At the moment these are not modular (or very adaptable – you can leave out one shelf with these 3 tiered ones), but easily could be: the plastic caps that sit at the top of the poles can be unscrewed on one of my other shelves (but not on these), and if the same size as the screw fitting between the pole sections (and for the bolts for feet/castors), these could be modular. Ideally, they’d also sell spare parts/extra shelves etc, but even without that, you’d have the option of combining multiple shelves of different heights, or splitting one large shelf maybe.
You get one set of spare clips with these, btw, as with most of these shelves and I don’t think you can buy any other spares or extra shelves. But for this price, you can’t really expect too much – even for double the price, you only get replaceable castors. If you want to be able to add shelves or other extras, or modify it, you’ve got to pay a lot more..
Overall, this is good quality for the money, and apart from the position of the top shelf, would be happy with it.