– Amazon Basics 3-Shelf Narrow Storage Unit With Height Adjustable Shelves and Levelling Feet, 340 kg Max Weight, Chrome, 34 cm D x 58.9 cm W x 76.2 cm H

Right. I'm here to save your sanity. I hope you're reading this early in your Assembly Journey, because if not, you are probably reading it from an A&E bed having blown your blood pressure through the roof. 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.

Perfect sturdy shelving. Have put it in a wardrobe. Have one bigger and similiar. Have had it 15 years and still looks like new. Easy to put together.

Looks nice, though is easy to assemble it uses a kind of plastics wedges to lock the shelves, so it is hard to get them levelled but that will give you some freedom to select the shelves height. Yes, is sturdy and looks good.

When I first thought of buying this three shelves unit I was not so sure because I wasn’t sure that my microwave will fit into it (my microwave is much bigger than the standard ones) because that’s what I intended to use it for. When it came It was very easy to put together coupled with the fact that it’s very sturdy by the time I put my microwave in it and all the little items that I added on the other shelves I was really very happy that I bought it after all. It was very easy to put together, it’s very strong and solid I very much recommend it. If there was a 6 star I would have given it without hesitation. I will be buying the 5 shelves one. It’s really good & the price is very reasonable.

Had a cupboard with a difficult area to use as it is very deep & rises above the door height. Wanted to use this area for spare guest bedding & towels, general bedding. Bought this item to fit at the front of the cupboard which meant I could remove it to get to storage at the rear. However, I found that I could place it side on which also gives access to the top shelf. It has proved a very useful storage solution. On the plus side it was extremely easy to assemble, taking about 10-15 minutes lone. It is sturdy yet light. On the minus side the chrome feels a little rough in places & I wouldn't guarantee its wear if damp items are placed on it (which I won't). General comment. Great solution to storage issues.

Good to utilise space in cupboards to enable neat storage solutions. Strong and reliable

It's only a three shelf unit for goodness sake, it should be easy to put together - shouldn't it? .... Ha! The manufacturers have made it one of the most complicated items I've ever put together. There are bits of plastic to wrap around the legs that don't fit properly (one of them arrived broken) and the shelves don't fit over them. I did the best I could but ended up wrapping each joint with copious amounts of Gorilla tape to keep them in place. I just hope it holds. A very poorly manufactured item. Why on earth have they made it so difficult?

Light but strong for use in the utility room. Clean looking

Joli et facile à monter Mais il annonce que ça peut supporter 340kg mais des qu'on dépose un poids de 20kg la planche se deforme

Very easy to put together. Sturdy. Good quality for the price. Great for small scale seed starting.

Excellent

Parfait, étagère très solide. J'ai pu mettre mes pots de peinture, ma boîte à outils et plein d'autres choses. Elle me paraît solide. Elle est facile à monter car c'est mon fils de 12 ans qui a réceptionné le colis et qui l'a monté.

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