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A field manual for running a home on industrial logistics standards — Euroboxes, Euro pallets, boltless racking, picking bins, dollies — instead of consumer storage products.
It exists because renting in Israel means moving often, involuntarily, and expensively (see The Why for the tenancy-law mechanics and the cost breakdown). The goal is narrow and practical: make each move cheaper, faster, and less physically punishing than the last, by storing belongings in the same standardized units industry already uses to move things at scale.
The name is a running joke — visitors ask whether it's a warehouse or an apartment — but the contents are meant as a straightforward reference for anyone who, like me, never realized this entire ecosystem was available to individuals.
Everything sits on the 600 × 400 mm grid, which divides the 1200 × 800 mm Euro pallet four-to-a-layer, which fits a shipping container. That chain of standards is the point — details in Interoperability.
| Unit | Size (cm) | Footprint | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eurobox | 60 × 40 × 23 | Euro 600 × 400 | Everyday / shallow storage — the daily driver |
| Eurobox | 60 × 40 × 34 | Euro 600 × 400 | Deeper loads, whole toolsets |
| Eurobox | 40 × 30 × 17 | Half-Euro 400 × 300 | Small parts; two sit on one 60 × 40 |
| ACL (attached-lid) | 60 × 40 × 41 | Euro 600 × 400 | The moving box — hinged lid, seals, nests empty |
| Picking bin | open front | — | Grab-access during unboxing |
| Boltless shelving | 60 cm deep | matches the box | Storage wall; flat-packs to the next flat |
| Euro pallet | 120 × 80 | — | Move-out unit — load it, jack it, roll it |
Because the footprint is shared, the formats are interchangeable: pack into ACLs for the move, decant into Euroboxes for the shelf, and back again next time — no repacking to a different size, no re-measuring against the shelving.
| Doc | Covers |
|---|---|
| The Why | Israel's tenancy/rental-law mechanics, the real cost of a move, jurisdiction comparison |
| Euroboxes | The three sizes, the standard, why they replace cardboard |
| Interoperability | Global pallet / box / shelving standards by region — the map of the whole ecosystem |
| Doc | Covers |
|---|---|
| Attached-Lid Containers (ACLs) | The moving-specific box: hinged lids, seals, nesting empties, the trash-cart second life |
| Picking & Sorting Bins | Fast-access containers for the unboxing phase |
| Gastronorm | The same standards logic applied to the kitchen |
| Consumables & Inserts | Turning boxes into a restockable pantry system |
| Doc | Covers |
|---|---|
| Industrial Shelving | Depth, beam length, boltless keyhole racking, decking, load, using the side face |
| Moving Equipment | Dollies, ratchet straps, improvised rolling cart |
| Pallets, Elevators & Biomechanics | Why palletizing is non-linear; why elevator depth dominates a move |
| Where's My Box | The QR-code inventory layer |
| Doc | Covers |
|---|---|
| Standard Operating Procedures | The move as a two-node supply chain: consolidate, haul, deconsolidate, put away — plus the unit-load hierarchy |
| SOP: The Apartment Move | The core procedure, phase by phase — survey, consolidate, strike the racking, haul, put away, close out |
| SOP: Split Moves & Storage | When part of the load goes to a storage unit, business premises, or a gap between leases |
| SOP: Cold-Start Setup | Getting from nothing to the state the other SOPs assume, in the right order |
| Doc | Covers |
|---|---|
| Cost of Ownership | IKEA SAMLA vs. industrial: real prices, amortized TCO, durability & UV |
| Sourcing | Buying B2B industrial gear as an individual |
| The Shipping-Container Thesis | How the standards nest up to intermodal freight |
https://danielrosehill.github.io/storage-container-calculator/
A single-page calculator that turns a pile of Euroboxes into logistics figures — useful before you buy them, and again before you book the van.
- Total volume in m³ and litres, from external dimensions
- Euro pallet loads (EUR-1 or EUR-6 half pallet) at a chosen max stack height, with per-layer layout diagrams
- 20 ft container (TEU) utilisation by volume and by pallet floor positions
- 3D models of each unit in the browser, with GLB download
- A4 PDF report to hand to a removals firm
No build step, no dependencies.
Source: danielrosehill/storage-container-calculator.
| Repo | What it is |
|---|---|
| eurobox-calculator | The calculator above |
| storage-box-3d-models | True-scale GLB models of Euroboxes, ACLs and picking bins |
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
tools/redact_qr.py |
Batch-covers inventory QR codes and strips EXIF before photos go public |
tools/make_composites.sh |
Rebuilds the composite figures used on this page |
pdf/build.sh |
Typesets the docs into the PDF edition via pandoc + Typst |
Photos of the real system — redacted (inventory QR codes covered) and
metadata-stripped — live in photos/, organized by theme.
The storage system
Industrial shelving
Moving day
Picking bins
Sourcing
| Folder | What's in it |
|---|---|
photos/sourcing/ |
The box supplier's yard, the shelving supplier's warehouse, pallet deliveries |
photos/storage-system/ |
The storage wall, labelled Euroboxes, shelving, consumables |
photos/picking-bins/ |
Open-front picking bins and wall hardware bins |
photos/moving-equipment/ |
Hand trucks, dollies, carts, labelling tools |
photos/moving-day/ |
Palletized/strapped loads, car loads, the lift |
photos/extras/ |
Odds and ends |
A typeset, printable edition is generated from the same markdown via
Typst: pdf/warehouse-apartment.en.pdf
(rebuild with pdf/build.sh). Photos are embedded throughout.
- ✅ Docs — written, expanding.
- ✅ PDF — English edition builds from the markdown (
pdf/). - ✅ Photos — a redacted, metadata-stripped set is in
photos/(organized by theme) and embedded through the docs and PDF. Batch redaction tool intools/. - 🎥 Video — in progress; releases once the finished system is in place.
- 🌐 Hebrew — a Hebrew edition (
pdf/warehouse-apartment.he.pdf) is planned.
YosiBox (יוסיבוקס) — Israel's largest and longest-running storage-solutions supplier. They took the time to explain a B2B system to a household buyer and walk through every model, which is a large part of why this project exists.