When we moved I knew that the garage was smaller in the new house than the old one, but I thought somehow that it would be OK or that we would quickly be able to afford to put on an addition to the garage to house my table saw. Alas, there will not be a garage addition any time soon. First thing I needed today was a rack to hold longer stock. I’ve been buying good oak trim as they have it in stock locally till I have enough to do some projects in the kids rooms and it’s just been lying on the floor which is no good. The ladder was already stuck up with a hook to the ceiling so it wasn’t much of a stretch to do the same with the longer wood bits.
The two tubular steel hooks came with the garage and a previous owner I think used them to hang bikes or garden hose or something. I took them off the wall when I built those cabinets there immediately after moving in and saved them knowing they would be useful. So I just screwed them into 2 ceiling joists and screwed that angle iron onto them. Keeps the wood up over the work area and mostly out of the way. Course I wont be able to store stuff there long term as it would probably warp, but to store for a bit while I”m gearing up for a project will be fine. That 3by is necessary to raise them up enough that the cabinet doors can still open... In a tiny shop you make do with what you got.
Then against the wall there is this interesting and mostly useless bit of extra storage space. It goes up under the firs flight of stairs into the bonus room above the garage.
The previous owners had it full of empty paint cans and we just stuffed it with stuff that you could never get to. I saw an instructable of a guy who built tracks to hold up plastic bins to the roof in his garage. The roof isn’t high enough nor is there enough space to do that against the ceiling here, but I could do it in here and it would leave enough room underneath and next to them to store longer or odd shaped stuff. There is room for 4 plastic bins suspended up on tracks.
was also an excuse to use my pride and joy tool the festool domino mortise and tenon tool! These are the boards the go flush against the ceiling in there. In the middle will be another one perpendicular unto which 1x2 strapping will be attached to form the rail that the edges of the bins will hang from. The big through mortises there are carefully measured onto this board to correspond with the joists in the ceiling of the hole in the wall. When hanging I can put a big screw through with a washer on it and adjust them a certain amount back and forth to get just the right fit. The little tabs on each side are only a quarter of an inch wide so there isn’t much room for error.
Getting ready to climb in and damage my back working up over my head, close quarters and not pleasant.
And they are up! 2 plastic bins in the back and room for 2 more in front, they slide in and out really easy. Ben was impressed but really just wanted me to get them back out so that he could go through my stuff... And finally as they are now, 4 plastic bins I can actually get to easily and room to store a bunch of other stuff that was just stacked up around the garage. Very happy, but a little sore...
