Storage solutions

[PlymBob]

I'm in a campsite in France and the pitch opposite has a German reg Sunlight PVC 540. Open the barndoors and part of it has a slide out rack with removable plastic storage boxes.

I've already got stackable plastic storage boxes, and they fit the space well, but if you want to get to one of the back ones you have to pull out all the others first. Which can be a lot of faff.

On this system you just slide out either the top ones or the bottom ones and access what you want. Just like that. Apparently built to fit in Germany. Black Forest region.

Anybody come across anything similar?

 

[TizzyOnTour]

A German friend of ours has a similar storage system in his motorhome garage. From memory he had his made to measure by a company called Bosch Rexroth.
We looked into having it shipped from Germany but this wasn’t viable. However through Google research we found a company in the UK supplying compatible components called KJN. (https://www.aluminium-profile.co.uk/)
Ultimately we went for a different approach so didn’t pursue this option, but perhaps worth considering.

 

[AlunandFelicie]

Go to the search function type in M/H garage storage for a brochure picture I posted a few weeks ago (I’m not clever enough to post links etc)
I suspect it’s the system you saw in France

 

[Carpmart]

My ‘beer’ fridge in the Moho garage racking is on slides…

Looking for heavy duty locking draw slides on eBay or Amazon.

 

[Boldly]

My ‘beer’ fridge in the Moho garage racking is on slides…

Looking for heavy duty locking draw slides on eBay or Amazon.View attachment 898136

I didn't know you had dandruff

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[fred_jb]

I'm in a campsite in France and the pitch opposite has a German reg Sunlight PVC 540. Open the barndoors and part of it has a slide out rack with removable plastic storage boxes.

I've already got stackable plastic storage boxes, and they fit the space well, but if you want to get to one of the back ones you have to pull out all the others first. Which can be a lot of faff.

On this system you just slide out either the top ones or the bottom ones and access what you want. Just like that. Apparently built to fit in Germany. Black Forest region.

Anybody come across anything similar?

I'm in the process of building a slide out floor for my boot space. I am using heavy duty lockable sliders and some pieces of aluminium angle to support a plywood panel to form the new moveable boot floor.

My van, an Etrusco CV540, has a raised metal conduit going across the forward part of the boot space protecting the water pipes and wiring that need to cross from one side of van to the other. This will prevent the new boot floor from going all the way to the front unless I raise it enough to clear this obstruction but this would waste a fair bit of headroom in the boot and might make impossible to stack my plastic storage boxes as I do at the moment

Instead, I will only take the new floor as far forward as the conduit, but have taken the opportunity to use the space forward of this by replacing the removable divider which blocks off the boot space from the interior with an additional cupboard at the end of the kitchen area, protruding back into this boot space.

If anybody is interested in this I can post some pictures when it is finished.

 

[Fdhadi]

I didn't know you had dandruff

He don’t

 

[PlymBob]

A German friend of ours has a similar storage system in his motorhome garage. From memory he had his made to measure by a company called Bosch Rexroth.
We looked into having it shipped from Germany but this wasn’t viable. However through Google research we found a company in the UK supplying compatible components called KJN. (https://www.aluminium-profile.co.uk/)
Ultimately we went for a different approach so didn’t pursue this option, but perhaps worth considering.

Hello TizzyOnTour, I had a look at the Bosch Rexroth website and they look a very large company, much bigger that you would expect to do made to measure work...

 

[Orion]

Hello TizzyOnTour, I had a look at the Bosch Rexroth website and they look a very large company, much bigger that you would expect to do made to measure work...

KJN will supply the Bosch Rexroth and other compatible components in small quantities and cut to order.

I used them when I fabricated a bespoke shelving unit for the garage area in our moho - not sliding but I wanted to make maximum use of otherwise dead space that standard sized containers wouldn’t fit into.

The online catalogue is very comprehensive.

 

[TrudeandDall]

Hobby fit a sliding gas bottle system on their PVC as standard. Makes life a lot easier when changing bottles, or in my case checking the Gaslow bottle for gas tightness

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[TizzyOnTour]

Hello TizzyOnTour, I had a look at the Bosch Rexroth website and they look a very large company, much bigger that you would expect to do made to measure work...

As Orion says above, KJN seem willing to help with small quantity orders. When I rang them they were very helpful.

 

[fred_jb]

I decided to make my own sliding tray in the boot to make it easier to get at stuff. On our inaugural trip in our new campervan I got a bit fed up of having to unload stuff and put it on the dusty or occasionally damp ground to get at something. This gives me full access without having to unload anything. As part of this project I have also sacrificed some boot space for extra storage inside with a new kitchen cupoard, which for us is a good trade-off. Cost about £200 for the necessary heavy duty runners, aluminium angle pieces, plywood and other stuff, plus quite a bit of time and brain pain figuring out the best way to do it!

The space either side of the cupboard is useful for AdBlue containers as we found that the van seems to guzzle the stuff, especially on motorway stints!

Locked in the travelling position:

Fully extended - with new kitchen cupboard and AdBlue storage space forward of the boot space:

Front view of new kitchen cabinet:

 

[PlymBob]

I decided to make my own sliding tray in the boot to make it easier to get at stuff. On our inaugural trip in our new campervan I got a bit fed up of having to unload stuff and put it on the dusty or occasionally damp ground to get at something. This gives me full access without having to unload anything. As part of this project I have also sacrificed some boot space for extra storage inside with a new kitchen cupoard, which for us is a good trade-off. Cost about £200 for the necessary heavy duty runners, aluminium angle pieces, plywood and other stuff, plus quite a bit of time and brain pain figuring out the best way to do it!

The space either side of the cupboard is useful for AdBlue containers as we found that the van seems to guzzle the stuff, especially on motorway stints!

Locked in the travelling position:

Fully extended - with new kitchen cupboard and AdBlue storage space forward of the boot space:

Front view of new kitchen cabinet:

Where did you get the parts from?

 

[fred_jb]

Where did you get the parts from?

I sourced the parts from various suppliers. The starting point was the 34" heavy duty runners at about £58.

https://uk.vevor.com/drawer-slide-c...ball-bear-500lb-full-extension-p_010817896048

This type of slider does not come apart for bolting to walls or my case the aluminium brackets so it is a case of manipulating the position of the sliding parts to uncover the required fixing holes, for both the outer and inner tracks which does make it more awkward.

I ordered four pieces of aluminium angle 900mm long, two pieces 76.2 x 76.2 x 3.2 mm and two smaller pieces 63.5 x 63.5 x 3.2 mm from aluminiumwarehouse.co.uk which were the most expensive items at a total of £87.

The plywood floor panel and other miscellaneous items came from B & Q who cut the plywood to the exact size I wanted. I ended up with two pieces which was useful in case of mistakes and ended up using the second piece when a couple of fixing holes in the first one ended up too far out of position to easily rectify.

The rubber floor cover and small aluminium angle for the front edge plus a multitude of nuts, bolts, screws and rivnuts came from Amazon. Next day delivery is very useful when you are not sure exactly what size of fixings you need until you start, or have a rethink on how to fit it all together which changes the requirements.

The dimensions were of course to suit my van and will be different for others.

My van has a large raised metal conduit towards the front end of the boot space which takes pipes and wires across the van. This was one of the reasons I decided to use this forward part to put in a kitchen cupboard as making the sliding floor clear this would have lost a fair amount of height in the boot, and in any case we felt that more cupboard space inside the van was preferable to extra boot space. The cupboard is held in place with thumbscrews into captive nuts so is easily removeable for carrying long loads.

I basically fixed the large pieces of angle mainly to the floor with recesses drilled in the wall to allow space for the nuts on the back of the angle which were bolting on the outer part of the runner. I added a couple of screws into the side walls at the front end just for additional security. The nuts were on the outside of the angle brackets as there is only limited headroom inside the runners, so the bolt heads have to be fairly flat types. I had to adjust spacings to allow for the two walls not being exactly parallel as the runners have to be otherwise they will jam. I decided it would be easier to adjust for this by mounting the runners to angle pieces rather than directly to the walls, and this also avoided the possibility of drilling into stuff like water tanks behind the side walls of the boot. The smaller angle pieces then bolt to the inner runners providing a surface either side to which the plywood floor could be bolted.

Sorry if that was a bit long winded, but I hope it is helpful for anyone thinking of doing the same.