I was building a cabin without intention of it being a full-time living space, but now circumstances have changed and I'm probably going to be living in it full-time. I am now trying to squeeze storage space out of anywhere I can find it, and it occurred to me that I could use the "crawl space" under the floor to build a number of really big drawers. I can probably figure out how to build the boxes themselves, but the problem I have is making the slides.The ground is ungraded so they have to be hanging, can't ride on anything in the ground.I'm thinking of only letting the drawers come out a little bit less than halfway, so that the other half is always under the rails, and leverage is minimized. I also think that using gate hardware is the way to go.I don't know anything about building gates though. Or huge-ass drawers for that matter, so now I'm at a loss about how to actually proceed. cantilever gate rollers look like a good solution, but how many should there be and where should they go? Is there another type of hardware that you'd recommend?
>>2988401If you're only pulling them out halfway anyway, then just put some rollers on them and give them board "rails" to roll in. Or steel if you want srs bsns stuff.
>>2988406what kind of rollers would you recommend?
Careful doing this... floor joist systems are designed to a maximum load capacity, typically 40 lbs/sqft for residential living areas per building code. This accounts for a maximum load of occupants, appliances, furniture, etc.If you now add a bunch of huge drawers suspended from the underside of the floor platform and filled with stuff, you may start getting close to the load limit, or exceed it, causing your floor to start feeling like a trampoline or potentially even collapse.If you're going to do this, you should really try to figure out some way to bear that weight on the ground rather than the floor platform. Unless you sized out the joist sizes & spacing to a rating far more than was required by code.
Anything stored under there has to be OK with moisture/humidity since it's essentially outside.
