Often, having visited any workshop, you can witness such a landscape: drills with brushes and files stick out from a plastic cup breathing in incense, nails are interspersed with self-tapping screws and bolts are scattered over a pair of cans, and screwdrivers with clamps and wrenches rest in the depths a disposable bag dangling somewhere near the ceiling. However, at some point the moment comes when the owner of the establishment realizes that the storage of tools and various pieces of iron is still worth paying attention to.
If this moment has come for you too, carefully read our article, where we want to talk about a few simple tricks that will allow you to maintain order in the place where you usually perform sacred rites.
Tool storage: little tricks to make the DIYer's life easier
So, let's move on to those tricks that will allow you to always have all the necessary tools and materials at hand.
The first trick: a haven for dowels
But this version with a nail-screw-containing suitcase even smacks of some intelligence :).
The second trick: we organize the storage of instruments between heaven and earth
Various tools, nuts, washers can be simply suspended. To do this, you will only need the wire necessary for bending hooks and hooks of various shapes, and, as can be seen in the photo, a fiberboard sheet, preferably perforated. We don't even talk about the details of the creation of this "masterpiece": it seems to us that even a hedgehog can understand it :).
Trick three: multi-story dormitory for nails
Such a multi-storey plywood box for storing hardware can be made by any more or less handy home craftsman.
Trick four: a safe haven for the milling industry
Thinking about arranging devices for storing the necessary tools with your own hands, you can build elementary storages for drills or cutters of the following types:
Trick five: eternal life of disposable plates
Why waste disposable plates? For storing various tools in your garage or workshop, cut them in half and screw the halves to the wall - and you have great storage pockets for just about anything!
Trick six: using the power of gravity
A magnetic tape on the wall, a plastic can, a metal washer attached to the bottom of this can - and before you is a convenient and at any time modifiable storage for various little things, which should always be at hand.
Seven trick: a resting place for clamps and similar tools
The pendants shown in the photo are suitable for storing "big-headed" tools - clamps, hammers and the like.
Trick eight: say NO moisture
We will describe this simple little thing in a little more detail. Tool storage is great, of course. But do not forget about some materials and accessories that also need to be stored and which are afraid of moisture. For them, you can build a plywood box, the inner surface of which is sheathed with geotextile, and the outer one with foam. Shelves can be arranged inside the box, and stored "valuables" can be placed, for example, in old plastic canisters, having previously prepared them accordingly.
So, we have outlined everything that we have managed to find for you at the moment. Of course, these are far from all the tricks and tricks that will allow you to provide convenient storage of tools and materials. We hope that the options we have proposed will open up ample opportunities for your personal imagination. As the great Samiznaetekto said, comrades for work! Move your convolutions and arms!
Almost every man has a toolbox in his home or garage. Therefore, it is worth keeping them in perfect order. How best to do this, a new review will tell. Surely everyone will be able to find in it examples of the organization of storage that interested him.
1. Plastic canisters
Cut canisters are perfect for storing nails, screws, bolts and nuts. And in order not to dig for a long time in search of what is needed, it is better to label the containers.
2. Wooden shelf
The narrow, perforated wood shelf is a great place to store your screwdrivers.
3. Stand
To prevent pliers from being scattered throughout the garage, make a special wooden stand for them.
4. Railing
A thin metal rod is ideal for hanging paint brushes.
5. Individual cells
From the remains of PVC pipes, you can make convenient cells for safe storage of a small power tool.
6. Wooden shelving
A homemade wooden rack for storing wrenches will allow you to forget about the clutter and tedious search for the right tool forever.
7. Open locker
An open wooden cabinet is perfect for storing spray paints, which are often scattered randomly in the garage.
8. Mobile stand
A small stand on wheels is perfect for storing hand tools. Such a rack is very compact and will allow you to always have the right tool at hand.
9. Wooden stand
Stylish wooden stand with shelf that is suitable for storing a wide variety of tools. Such a product will not only help to streamline hand tools, but will also become a real decoration of the male monastery.
10. Homemade rack
An unnecessary pallet can be turned into a handy stand for storing garden tools, which often take up a lot of garage space.
11. Hanger
A simple wooden block with metal hooks will permanently solve the problem of storing a power tool.
12. Clothes hangers
Simple manipulations with an ordinary clothes hanger will turn it into a convenient organizer for storing electrical tape and adhesive tape.
13. Storage system
Forks, shovels, rakes and other garden tools are not very stable and also take up a lot of space in the garage. Sturdy wooden wall hooks will help you place your gardening tools intelligently along the walls of your garage or shed.
14. Folding table
A homemade wood folding table and wall mounted hand tool storage rack is a terrific idea for small garage owners.
15. Glass jars
Ordinary glass jars with metal lids are perfect for storing various little things. For greater convenience and reliability, the lids of the cans should be screwed to the shelves.
16. Vertical storage
The average garage looks pretty cluttered. The competent organization of storage systems will help to solve this problem. Instead of another closet, equip the walls with various shelves and hooks, which will neatly accommodate a variety of things, from tools to a huge boat and bicycles.
17. Magnets
Magnetic tape or individual small magnets are a great idea for storing bits for screwdrivers, drills, and other small metal parts.
In continuation of the topic, we will tell you about anywhere.
Hello to all homemade lovers!
As you know, home-made people who actively use various small hardware (nails, screws, nuts, washers, etc.) in their work, constantly have to solve the problem of their placement and storage.
So at the present time, I have a rather acute problem of placing such small fasteners. Moreover, this is largely due to the fact that there have been decent frosts on the street for the third week so that there is no way to work in the workshop. Therefore, inevitably, you have to relocate home and already at home and work on homemade products, at least those that can be made at home.
And so, in order to solve the problem of placing small fasteners at home, I decided to make a rather simple organizer, and literally from trash.
For this I needed the following accessories:
Materials:
Milk carton;
- Plastic jars of yoghurt.
Instruments:
Pencil;
- Strong scissors;
- Construction or office knife;
- Stationery stapler.
Organizer manufacturing
First, cut off the upper part of the box from the milk bags with scissors, focusing on the side edges.
Then we strengthen the places where the sides of the box are glued, additionally fastening them with staples using a stationery stapler, just in case, so that they do not disperse.
Now, with a pencil, mark in the bottom of the box, the places of the cutouts for the jars of yogurt and cut them out with a clerical knife.
In this case, you can cut out one slot, use the cut out part as a template for marking subsequent slots.
You do not need to worry about the accuracy and evenness of the edges of the slots, since they will not be visible anyway.
I made seven slots in the bottom of the box, four for small yogurt jars and three for larger jars.
Now you can insert empty jars themselves into the slots made, which will serve as containers for storing our hardware.
And now our organizer is ready!
And so, it looks from below!
Now, you can fill the jars with hardware.
As a result, it turned out to be a pretty good organizer!
To be honest, I was afraid that because of the slots, the bottom of the box might lose its rigidity and become not very strong. But it turned out that the bottom retained its strength and rigidity quite well and, in principle, can easily withstand an even greater load (if, for example, all the jars are filled with hardware to the top).
Another convenience of this organizer is that each jar can be easily removed from its slot. So, if necessary, any jar can be removed from the slot to be replaced or moved to another place.
In addition, you can make several of these organizers and put them one on top of the other.
So I have already cut out a blank for the same organizer from another box and put the finished organizer on it.
And I still have a lot of such cardboard boxes! : e113:
However, there are no more yogurt jars. : e115: Therefore, we will have to wait until new empty jars accumulate! : e139:
Well, that's all for me!
Goodbye to everyone and a successful start to the new year!
Practical storage systems for your garage or workshop.
For many, a garage is not only a place to store a car, but also a real car, locksmith and carpentry workshop. Therefore, it is important that everything is always at hand and in the right place. But sometimes it is so difficult to understand the variety of screwdrivers, pliers, scissors, drills and other utensils that are stored in the "man's Eden". This roundup provides simple yet effective ideas to help you create near-perfect storage systems in your garage.
1. Magnetic tape
Magnetic tape for storing small metal parts.
Magnetic tape attached to your garage wall can be used to store drills, scissors, bolts, nuts, and other small metal parts. Such a magnetic holder is very convenient to use and will help prevent the loss of small but important parts.
2. Plastic containers
Rack made of plastic containers.
Large plastic containers and blocks of wood can be used to build a large storage rack for tools, wires, spare parts, and any other items. The organization of such a rack will allow you to put things in order and significantly save space in the workshop or garage.
3. Roof rails
Rails for trash bags and paper towels.
On one of the free walls of the garage, you can place several small rails, on which it will be convenient to place rolls of garbage bags, paper towels, sandpaper, scotch tape, rolls of rope and much more.
4. Brackets for furniture
Furniture storage brackets.
Many summer residents use a garage to store folding outdoor furniture. To prevent it from standing in corners and taking up a lot of space, make a vertical rack for it with wooden or metal brackets and screw it to one of the free walls.
5. Jars
Storage of nails, bolts, screws and other little things.
Bolts, nuts, nails, screws, screws and other little things do not take up much space, but it is extremely inconvenient to store them in a mixed form. Jars with lids screwed to the bottom of a wall cabinet or under the table top will help to clean up these things.
6. Grille under the ceiling
Storage grate for pipes and skirting boards.
A plastic grate screwed into the corner of the garage under the ceiling is ideal for storing leftover water pipes, baseboards, profiles and other long items. Such a storage system will significantly save space in the garage and prevent possible breakdowns of fragile building materials.
7. Organizer for screwdrivers
Wooden organizer for screwdrivers.
A small practical organizer for screwdrivers that any man can make by simply drilling the required number of small holes in a block of wood. Such a product can be hung on one of the walls of a garage or workshop to keep all the screwdrivers in one place.
8. Vertical storage systems
Vertical panels for storing things.
Several perforated metal or plywood panels under a table or in a cabinet provide an ergonomic and convenient vertical storage space for small hand tools.
9. Plastic pipes
Storage systems made of PVC pipes.
The remains of PVC pipes of different diameters can be used to create a wide variety of storage systems. For example, pieces of wide pipes screwed to the bottom of the cabinet are suitable for storing a screwdriver, drill, and other tools of this type. Pieces of medium-diameter PVC pipes can be used to make cells for storing various sprays, polyurethane foam, paint tubes and other containers.
10. Brushes
Hanging storage of brushes.
It is very convenient to store paint brushes and spatulas hanging on a thin wire or on a thin steel rod.
11. Rack for garden tools
Wooden stand for garden tools.
To prevent gardening tools from taking up a good third of the garage space, store them on a special rack bolted to one of the walls. Such a rack can be made with your own hands from blocks of wood, a wooden pallet or pieces of plastic pipes.
12. Multifunctional rack
Pallet rack with shelves.
A wooden pallet, complemented by shelves made from pieces of wooden slats, will become a functional component of the garage and will help to place a huge amount of hand tools and small ones in one place.
13. Rod holder
Storage of fishing rods.
A regular wire mesh can be used to create a handy rod holder. This storage system can be fixed to the ceiling so that it does not take up space below and does not get confused in the fall-winter season.
14. Pegboard
No matter how large the garage is, the problem of compact placement of all the necessary equipment in the household is always relevant. Storing the instrument on the wall will help in many ways to solve the problem of limited space - so the necessary will be at hand, and useful meters will not be used in vain. By organizing your tool storage system on the wall, you can solve many problems overnight. Each type of repair gear must be placed separately, this will further facilitate the search for this or that item. Next, let's take a look at the most popular and simple ideas for attaching a tool to a wall.
Organizers from cans for tools on the wall
If you do not throw away canned food cans for some time, then you can build a wonderful organizer for storing tools on the wall with your own hands. Pliers, secateurs, scissors, brushes will be organically and conveniently placed in the cans attached to the garage walls. This simple idea allows you to make the most of your workshop space and keep all the tools you need close at hand.
Screwdriver holder
A screwdriver is a very useful item in the household. But finding it becomes a frequent problem, since it is small and inconspicuous. So that all the screwdrivers are at hand, and the efforts regarding the search for the item of the desired model are minimized, you can build a holder. To do this, you just need to drill holes in a wooden block and attach it to the wall.
Shelf with saws for tools
Drills, jigsaws and screwdrivers love order no less than any other household assistant. It is convenient to store them on a shelf with cut holes.
garden tools
How to hang tools on the wall in the garage? No one wants to step on the same rake every day, however, if they lie anywhere in the garage, then this will happen more than once. A smart solution would be to remove them from the aisle and attach them securely to the wall. Holders cut from ordinary PVC pipe can help with this.
Racks with containers
Useful little things can be conveniently placed in containers on the shelves. For the construction of the shelving, you can use pallets, perhaps they remained with you after the construction of a garage or house.
Important! If you want the rack to be more mobile, you can attach wheels to it.
Organizer for small parts:
- Small items such as screws, nuts and nails are conveniently stored in bottles or cans made of clear plastic. To save shelf space, the containers can be attached to the hanging holder.
Important! It is more profitable to make the attachment point on the container lid.
- Empty cut-off cans can be used to store the same tools.
Important! In order not to look for the necessary parts for a long time, it is better to label the containers.
Storing band saws
It is dangerous to store the saw blades twisted into a ring, as they can be seriously injured or injured during the unrolling process. Office clips can be used to safely store such tools on the wall. With the help of them, a sharp canvas is fixed, hung on a hook or placed on a shelf.
How convenient to store drills and keys?
Another type of small household utility is various keys and drills. A wall mount for the tool can be made from magnetic tape. This way, the drills will not get lost and will always be in order.
Storage of adhesive tape:
- It is very convenient to store scotch tape or duct tape in a drawer with a metal strip distributor. So it will be possible to easily tear off the required amount of tape without losing its ends for convenient subsequent use.
- Another convenient method for storing duct tape is with a coat hanger. By cutting the bottom of the hanger, you can hang some electrical tape and tape on it. The hanger itself can be hung on a hook driven into the bottom of the shelf.
