I have a mother-in-law problem that I'm hoping someone can help with ... My mother-in-law just had a remodelling done, apparently with the "cheapest" contractors. Among many other problems, I wanted to help with her new pantry. When they framed it up, they used steel studs, spaced so there is one in the center. Then they installed 18" deep modular shelving on vertical supports. The problem is the two verticals are too far apart so the shelves sag. My mother-in-law does not want to spend the money to put a third vertical in the center. I have no idea what thickness of sheetrock they used. How can I provide enough support so the shelves do not sag? - I can move the two verticals in a few inches, but then they are just on sheetrock. There are several holes for fasteners, but what fasteners might hold? A set of pantry shelves can get awfully heavy: any ideas how heavy? Any idea if sheetrock can stand up to that (assume the thinnest)? - What fasteners are good for metal studs? Can I expect them to actually hold the weight? - The mother-in-law picked up concrete anchors: will they hold in metal studs? The only thing I could come up with was attaching some 1x4's as furring strips horizontally. They could be attached to the metal studs and provide better support for the verticals at any spacing. Any comments on this plan, ideas for fasteners, or alternate plans?

I'm tired of running to the hardware store for small paks of wood screws, nuts, and bolts. In addition my storage of screws, nuts, and bolts not very user friendly and is very incomplete due to purchasing small bags here and there. I'd like to but a fastener assortment kit with mostly woodworking fasteners but also a few common sizes of nuts & bolts. Can anyone suggest a fastener kit geared toward the weekend woodworker/handyman? It'd be nice if the kit came packaged as a drawer type unit to sit on a workbench or to be mounted. I've done some searching on the internet and most of the kits I found were sheet metal screws or just nuts and bolts. Thanks for your suggestions! Craig