Sealey Modular Storage Buyer's Guide
What a modular system gives you over a tool chest, how a Superline PRO run is put together, and how to work out the exact parts list for your own wall.
Measure the clear wall. The bench section divides into 680mm bays, and everything else follows from the bay count.
Full height cabinets at 600mm and 915mm sit outside the bench run, with no worktop over them.
Kits come in five lengths. If your wall is not one of them, you are building a parts list, and it takes five minutes.
What you are actually buying
A modular storage system is a wall of steel cabinets that bolt together into one continuous run, with a worktop across the middle and hanging panels behind. Sealey build five ranges. This guide covers Superline PRO, which offers by far the widest choice of individual cabinets and so gives you the most control over what ends up on your wall.
The alternative is a tool chest and some shelving. That is a fraction of the price and it stores the same tools. What the modular system buys you is the wall itself. Everything sits at a fixed height in a fixed place, the worktop runs unbroken across the whole bench, and hand tools hang on perforated panels at eye level instead of going back in a drawer. Nothing rocks when you lean on it, because the cabinets are bolted to each other rather than standing side by side.
It is also permanent in a way a tool chest is not. Once a run is built it stays where it is. If you want storage you can wheel out of the way, this is the wrong product.
The three fixed dimensions
Superline PRO is workshop furniture rather than shelving. The cabinets arrive built, they are heavy, and once connected they behave as a single piece.
The height of a complete run, floor to the top of the wall cabinets. Fixed across the range.
Anything standing on the floor. Wall cabinets are shallower at 280mm, so there is room to work at the bench.
Plus 36mm in pressed wood or 38mm in stainless steel, putting the working surface at standard bench height.
Everything divides into 680mm bays
A Superline PRO run is divided into bays of 680mm. Each bay is one back panel of 615mm plus one upright connector of 65mm. Add them up and you get 680.
The uprights at each end of a run are single connectors at 32.5mm rather than doubles at 65mm, because they only have a panel on one side. So a five bay run measures five panels at 615, four double uprights at 65 and two single uprights at 32.5, which comes to exactly 3400mm. That is why the lengths in this range look odd until you see the grid, and completely regular once you do.
Floor cabinets are 680mm wide and interchangeable. The four drawer, five drawer, two door, multifunction and reel cabinets are all 680 x 460 x 910mm. The seven drawer is 1360mm, which is two bays.
680mm, 1360mm and 2040mm, which is one, two and three bays. Combine them to cover the bench. A five bay run takes a 2040 and a 1360, because there is no five bay worktop.
Two cabinets run the full 2000mm, at 600mm and 915mm wide. No worktop over them and no wall cabinets above. This is why a 4.92m kit is 600 plus 915 plus five bays.
The mobile trolley and mobile cabinet are 646mm and 650mm so they roll clear, but still take a full bay. The sink unit is 950mm tall rather than 910mm, so plan it at the end of a run.
The cabinets
Every 680mm floor cabinet fits every bay, so this is a free choice rather than a constraint. What follows is what each one is actually good at.
Under the worktop
Full height, outside the bench run
Above the worktop
On the back panel
How to divide up the bays
Drawers cost more than doors and hold less by volume, so a run made entirely of drawer cabinets is expensive and wastes space on bulky items. A run made entirely of cupboards means everything ends up in a heap on a shelf.
The mix that works for most people is roughly two thirds drawers to one third cupboard, with the cupboard at the end furthest from where you stand. Sealey's own kits sit close to that ratio, which is a reasonable check on it.
Two things are worth spending on early. A back panel in every bay, because retrofitting one later means taking the worktop off. And the widest drawer cabinet you can fit, because a 1250mm drawer takes things no 565mm drawer will.
One seven drawer, one cupboard, one trolley bay. Add a full height cabinet at one end if the wall allows.
The 1360mm seven drawer across two bays, then a cupboard, a reel or multifunction cabinet, and a trolley bay.
Two drawer cabinets at the working end, cupboards at the far end, and a sink unit if there is water nearby.
Turning a corner
If your run turns a corner, the corner cabinet is 865 x 865mm in plan, so it occupies 865mm along each wall measured from the internal angle. The corner wall cabinet above it is the same 865mm square at 350mm high. Bays then run out along both walls from there.
A corner also needs four single uprights rather than two, because it is two runs and each has its own open end.
Once you know your bays, the rest follows
Every complete kit Sealey sell follows the same pattern, without exception. Count your bays and the panels, wall cabinets and connectors are decided for you.
So a four bay run needs four back panels, four wall cabinets, three doubles and two singles, whatever cabinets you choose to put underneath.
Three walls, drawn to the same scale
Each of these matches a complete kit, so you can compare building it from parts against buying the kit outright. The cabinets chosen are one sensible arrangement rather than the only one. Swap any 680mm floor cabinet for any other and nothing else changes.
Three bays and no tall cabinets
A 2040mm wall is three bays of 680mm and nothing else. It is the shortest run that still gives you a proper bench, and the one to start with if you intend to extend later. Three back panels, three wall cabinets, two doubles and two singles. One 2040mm worktop covers the lot, so there is no join in the working surface.
Three bays between two tall cabinets
A 3240mm wall takes a 600mm full height cabinet at each end with three bays between them. 600 plus 600 plus 2040 gives 3240. The bay count has not changed, so the parts list has not either. Choose this arrangement if you need somewhere for long handled tools, because nothing in the bench section will take a sweeping brush or a length of timber.
Five bays between two tall cabinets
A 4915mm wall is the longest run Sealey build as a single kit. Five back panels, five wall cabinets, four doubles and two singles. The worktop needs two pieces, a 2040mm and a 1360mm, because there is no 3400mm worktop. The 1360mm seven drawer cabinet takes two of the five bays on its own.
Measure it, take off any full height cabinets you want, and divide what is left by 680. If it does not divide evenly, drop a bay and leave the gap at one end, add a 600mm full height cabinet to absorb the remainder, or start the run at a door or window and use the leftover at the far end.
Kit or parts list
Sealey sell complete kits at 1.96m, 2.04m, 3.24m, 4.92m and a 1.55m corner. A kit is one order, one delivery, and no thinking about which cabinets or how many connectors. You put it against the wall and build it.
That works if your wall is one of those lengths. Most walls are not. A 2.6m wall has no kit, and neither does a 4m one, so the choice disappears and you are building a parts list regardless.
A kit also fixes what goes in each bay. If you want five drawer cabinets and no doors, or a sink at one end, no kit will give you that and you are choosing cabinet by cabinet anyway.
Frequently asked questions
680mm, made up of a 615mm back panel and a 65mm upright connector. Almost every floor and wall cabinet is built to that width.
460mm for floor cabinets and full height cabinets. Wall cabinets are 280mm. Worktops are 463mm, so they overhang slightly.
Yes. Every part is sold separately and nothing is exclusive to a kit, so a run built this year can be extended next year using the same components.
Because the full height cabinets at 600mm and 915mm sit outside the 680mm grid. A 4.92m kit is 600 plus 915 plus five bays, which comes to 4915mm.
One fewer double than you have bays, plus two singles for the open ends. A run that turns a corner takes four singles.
Black Edition is dimensionally the same system in black. Rapid-Fit towers are 2080mm tall so they will not line up with a 2000mm run. Premier is 610mm deep and heavier throughout. American Pro is the entry tier with worktops built in.
Send us your wall measurement and we will work out the parts list
Cabinets, worktops, back panels and connectors are all in the Superline PRO collection. If you would rather we checked the list before you order, tell us the length and whether the run turns a corner.
