What are shop shelving finishers?

Wall shelving and gondola shelving bays are designed to join together to make a continuous run of shop shelving. To achieve this each shop shelving bay shares an upright with the neighbouring shelving bay.  On wall shelving each upright has one base leg and on gondola shelving each upright has two base feet.  At the end of each shelving run a final upright with either one or two base feet is required and this is often called a finisher, an end of run leg or run end.  In each case it is referring to the same thing.  The pictures below show the wall and gondola end of run legs.

Wall End of Run Leg

Gondola Shelving End of Run Leg

At Shelving Megastore as with most shop shelving suppliers, all the shelving bays are supplied as standard with one upright with base feet per shelving bay. You then need to workout the correct number of end of run legs to be ordered to finish off all the shelving runs, if each shelving bay came with both uprights there would be end of run legs left over if any of the shelving bays are joined together, increasing the cost of the shelving.

How do I know how many finishers I need?

If you have a single standalone wall or gondola bay then you will require 1 finisher to put on the end.

If on the other hand you have a run of 2, 3 or more bays all joined together then you will still only require one finisher to finish or end the run. Sometimes you might have 3 bays on one wall, 4 bays on another wall and 5 bays on yet another wall then you will require 3 finishers or end of run legs to finish all three runs of shelving, the same thing applies to the gondola double sided shelving runs.

So the general rule of thumb is that for each standalone bay or run of shelving you will require one finisher.

Assuming all the heights and depths of the bases are the same, just add up the separate runs of wall shelving you plan to have and that is the amount of wall finishers required, do the same for the gondola and that is the number of gondola finishers required.