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[crxvtec91]

Anyone have some good cheap ways to organize the garage?

I'm thinking of either building some cabin it's, or shelving, ect. What have you guys done.

The spac I'm working with is 12x 14 give or take.

[PhilStubbs]

i dont have anything to provide here, just in to hear suggestions. i have a couple cabinets and some shelves that arent working for me in my 50x35' shop

[ratcityrex]

How high are your ceilings? I have 13' ceilings and I hung a 5/8" sheet of plywood from some eye bolts I screwed into the rafters with chain and some eye bolts through the plywood. Store all of our camping gear and all that up there in plastic totes. If you are storing car parts then build some cabinets out of plywood and bolt it to the wall above where you park your car. Let me dig up a couple of pics and I will post up what Im talking about.

[rawr]

2x4s and plywood

[ratcityrex]

here on the left is a 2'x2'x6' box that I built out of 2 sheets of plywood. I used it as my dresser when I didnt have any room in my old place. I mounted it above my bed. Now its in the garage and holds all kinds of shit.


the other thing you can do is if you dont have room for a roll away tool box, then use pegboard and attache it to 2"x2" boards that you mount to the sheet rock, and harbor freight has the cheapest hooks around that you can get for the pegboard. then you can hang all your tools up.


Then I built a bench out of 4"x4" fence posts and 2"x6"x16' boards, and 2 sheets of mdf because its hard as fuck to beat up as long as you dont get it soaking wet. lots of extra storage there too.

[crxvtec91]

Those are some good ideas. How much do you think you have into the bench?

[92CXyD]

yeap pegboards work well 

[Eggylshatch]

2x4s and plywood

[PhilStubbs]

That pegboard shit would drive me crazy. I have hand tools in toolboxes.

[bluerex]

2x4s and plywood

This, or 1" X 12"s and concrete blocks

[ratcityrex]

I probably have less than $100 into the bench. But I don't know the prices of lumber now. I built the bench 9 years ago.

[crxvtec91]

Thanks for the ideas, google a few things. Looks like a combo of work bench, cabinets, and some storage systme should work. All home made/ dirt cheap!

[ratcityrex]

Pallets are generally free, and if you can take them apart without destroying them, you can generally get some good scrap wood to make shelves with.

[PhilStubbs]

8ft 2x4's are $2.50ea. It takes a long time for that to add up and become expensive. Not worth tearing apart pallets hopeing to get something useful

[Joseph Davis]

Give your old lady some meth...

[Tim]

I built 2ft wide 16ft long shelves along two walls of my garage 6ft1in off the floor so not many people could crack their head on it.
I piled everything in plastic rubbermaid roughneck totes and labeled the sides before I threw it up there.

My workbenches werent' cheap, but they kick ass.
Welded 1x1 and 2x2 steel square tubing into a frame 30" deep, 36" tall, 90" long and covered the top and shelf with 17/32nds plywood that I bought with a gift card from lowes.  I can probably set a car on them and they would hold it.

You can see the shelf in the background top left of the pic, and the fresh finished bench in the center.
I store alot of tools under the benches and they opened up alot of space in my garage.
And I can actually have a place to work thats not scattered all over the hood of a car or a folding table thats about to cave from the weight of a transmission.

[ApexSilver06MR]

yeap pegboards work well 

holy fuck!  Russ has a clean garage>?

[92CXyD]

yeap pegboards work well 

holy fuck!  Russ has a clean garage>?

Not quite but I'm getting there, I got rid of all a, b and f/h series stuff.

[HiProfile]

I made 16' wide by 8' tall by 2' deep shelves with OSB and 2x4's. Very easy, very strong, very cheap. It has 3 layers and fits a few longblocks under it on furniture dollies.



This is an older pic, I had just dug out the firebird a few months after moving in. I've since reinfoced the middles with uprights and got rid of 90% of the junk to the right. The 1/2" OSB holds a LOT of weight; plywood does more for a given area for more money.