A simple trash organizer for small hardware. Storage of hand tools in the workshop
Most often, going into most workshops, we see the following picture: drills, brushes, saws lie in a dilapidated plastic cup, screws, nails and bolts of various sizes found peace in a tin, and wrenches, screwdrivers and clamps rest quietly, hanging on a carnation under the ceiling in a disposable bag.
But there comes a day when we need to find some kind of nut of a specific diameter. We have been tinkering with all of the above for more than one hour, wasting that precious time that could have gone to the improvement of a house, a plot, or just some little thing.
This article will translate a few tricks that will help you keep the workshop not only clean and tidy, but also always know what is where.
The first trick
Self-tapping screws, screws, nails are best stored packaged in several jars with threaded lids. Just screw the lid to the bottom of any shelf and screw the jar with the contents into it. This will save you space and allow you to always recognize the details that are in the bank. Moreover, they do not take up much space, and each small bolt, screw or self-tapping screw can be packaged in size, diameter and length.
Storage for nails and other small items
Screw storage box
Trick two
To store keys, scissors, nuts and washers, you will need a sheet of hard fiberboard (perforated is better) and wire. Hooks are made from it, the ends of which fit snugly against each other. Nuts and washers are strung on them. And keys and other tools can be marked on hooks that are made from the same wire.
Storage of tools in your own workshop
Trick three
To store nails, screws or self-tapping screws, you can make a three or four-story box. The bottom will be molds from cupcakes or other confectionery, and the walls are made of ordinary plywood.
Homemade storage box for nails and screws
Trick four
To store cutters and drills, it is best to use a sheet of polystyrene or foam that is attached to the wall. Holes of the required diameter are made in it for drills and cutters. Due to the excellent elasticity of the foam or polystyrene sheets, the tools are firmly fixed and do not fall out. Plus, it's easy to extract them. With the help of such a simple invention, you can store not only drills and cutters, but also screwdrivers of various shapes, polyhedrons, drills for a puncher.
Stand for storing cutters
Cutter storage box
Drill stand
Case for drills
Cunning fifth
With the help of disposable plastic plates, you can make pockets for storing circles and various grinding discs. Plates must be cut in half, screwed to the wall with screws. It is best to use plates of different diameters. Thus, you can immediately recognize which circle and what diameter you need.
Plastic plates for storing tools
Trick six
To store all kinds of small parts, you can make boxes that will be attached to the wall with magnets. To do this, you will need small plastic containers (preferably with a tight-fitting lid), on the bottom of which washers are glued. At the same time, a magnetic tape or speaker magnets must be attached to the wall.
To store small things, boxes on beckons are suitable.
Trick seventh
To store clamps, you can make a narrow rectangular box. We fasten the box to the wall with one side so that the clamp handles are inside, and the second part just hangs in the air.
Clamp storage
Trick eighth
In every shed or workshop, in addition to tools, you can still find all kinds of building materials that are afraid of moisture. It was just for their storage that craftsmen came up with one simple little thing. First, we need to make a box one square meter in size from bars and plywood. We sheathe the walls and bottom of the finished box with foam plastic from the outside. From the inside of the wall, it is desirable to sheathe with geotextiles. All this is done so that moisture cannot penetrate the stored dry mixes, and the one that nevertheless got inside does not remain on the walls of the box, but evaporates through the natural fabric.
Plywood box
Trick nine
If you have a lot of all kinds of plumbing parts in your workshop, it is best to make a multi-story box with shelves for them. To do this, we make a cube from plywood and bars and close it on three sides. Inside the box, using furniture nails, we fix several shelves from the same plywood.
Here we have all kinds of plumbing accessories on them: taps, joints, tees, half-inch slings - on the first shelf, all the same accessories, but only three-quarters of an inch - on the second shelf, and we put the inch ones to the very bottom, so as their weight is much higher than the previous ones.
If you have components of a larger radius on the farm, then you will have to slightly increase the storage space and make a few more shelves.
Thanks to these tricks, your workshop will always be in order and it will not be difficult for you to find any tool that you need in everyday life.
And finally, a video from Steve - how to make wooden shelves for storing various tools
Steve makes a box for storing small items (screws, nails)
When you have a workshop or a garage, then nothing stops us from acquiring all sorts of little things: nuts, washers, self-tapping screws, bolts, small nails, staples, and so on. But sooner or later the day comes and you begin to understand that there is not enough space. In fact, there is a lot of space, you just need to be able to store it correctly. Let's look at some options for storing every little thing in your workshop, garage or apartment.
Washers, screws, dowels - yes, there are a lot of things on the farm
Buy or make your own box
There is no single answer, as you can imagine. Someone just likes to do everything with their own hands, and someone is lazy. Someone thinks that a few rubles, hryvnias, dollars or zlotys for a simple box is inexpensive and, most importantly, without wasting precious time. Well, it’s better for someone to tinker N-th amount of time at the workbench to make a box for small change that is unique in its kind.
We have no right to advise you on how to proceed in this situation. Choose for yourself, buy or make yourself, spend money or spend time, enjoy manual labor or go to hardware stores. But we know one thing for sure: a box, a box, an organizer, or whatever you want to call it - it must have several characteristics:
Purchasable Options
There are plenty of organizers in the markets or in stores now. It remains only to choose the right one. What troubles can we expect when buying and what places in such organizers are considered weak:
Homemade fixtures
These include those that are made entirely with their own hands, and those that are intended for storing other things, but were purchased by you specifically for hardware. It could be coffee cans or food storage boxes, or it could be a plywood box or a converted kitchen wall cabinet. Let's give some recommendations:
Instead of a conclusion
Proper storage in the workshop is not only a convenience for the owner, but also maintaining order, and this is sometimes even more important. Then, to the envy of your neighbor, you can demonstrate your favorite workplace, and reproach your wife that it is cleaner in the garage than in the house. Jokes aside, but an organizer, even a purchased one, even with your own hands, is a very necessary thing that should be in every master.
Practical storage systems for the garage or workshop.
For many, the 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 "male Eden". In this review, simple yet effective ideas will help you create almost perfect storage systems in your garage.
1. Magnetic tape
Magnetic tape for storing small metal parts.
Magnetic tape pasted on the wall in the garage 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 spare parts.
2. Plastic containers
Rack made of plastic containers.
From large plastic containers and blocks of wood, you can build a large rack for storing tools, wires, spare parts and any other things. 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, adhesive tape, coils of rope and much more.
4. Furniture brackets
Brackets for furniture storage.
Many summer residents use the garage to store folding outdoor furniture. So that it does not stand in the corners and does not take up much 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 small things.
Bolts, nuts, nails, screws, screws and other little things do not take up much space, but it is extremely inconvenient to store them mixed. Putting things in order will help jars with lids screwed to the bottom of a wall cabinet or under the desktop top.
6. Grid under the ceiling
Lattice for storage of pipes and plinths.
A plastic grate screwed into the corner of the garage under the ceiling is ideal for storing leftover water pipes, skirting boards, profiles and other long items. Such a storage system will help to significantly save space in the garage and prevent possible breakage of fragile building materials.
7. Organizer for screwdrivers
Wooden organizer for screwdrivers.
A small, practical screwdriver organizer that any man can make by simply drilling the right number of small holes in a block of wood. Such a product can be hung on one of the walls of the garage or workshop to keep all the screwdrivers in one place.
8. Vertical storage systems
Vertical panels for storage.
Several perforated panels of metal or plywood under a table or in a cabinet provide an ergonomic and comfortable place to vertically store small hand tools.
9. Plastic pipes
PVC pipe storage systems.
The remains of PVC pipes of different diameters can be used to create a 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. From pieces of PVC pipes of medium diameter, you can make cells for storing various sprays, foam, paint tubes and other containers.
10. Tassels
Hanging brush storage.
It is very convenient to store paint brushes and spatulas suspended on a thin wire or on a thin steel rod.
11. Rack for garden tools
Wooden rack for garden tools.
So that garden tools do not take up a good third of the garage space, store them on a special rack screwed to one of the walls. Such a rack can be made with your own hands from wood bars, a wooden pallet or pieces of plastic pipes.
12. Multifunctional rack
Pallet rack with shelves.
A wooden pallet, complemented by shelves made of 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
Rod storage.
A regular wire rack can be used to create a handy rod holder. Such a storage system can be fixed under the ceiling so that it does not take up space below and does not get underfoot in the autumn-winter season.
14. Pegboard
Channel such and such spoke about the organization of the workplace in the workshop. The idea is not about how to store screwdrivers and hammers. And about how to store hardware. The author of the video uses empty transparent milk bottles for nuts and nails.
The workshop has a lot of screws, screws and washers necessary for work. Previously, everything was stored in the organizer. But now they are used only when moving to objects for work. Before the trip, the required number of parts is poured into the cells.
In the workshop it is more convenient to store in bottles. They are easy to remove, screw on and put back in place. Everything is clearly visible, how much material and parts have been used up, left. Thanks to the visibility, it is possible to orient in time in order to purchase the required number of nails, cogs, screws.
After work, various parts are dumped into a separate container, and in their free time they are disassembled and put into bottles.
Previously, the master tried to store spare parts in nescafe jars. The lids were also nailed to the board. Then not yet to the ceiling, there were corners on the wall. Specially protruding board just below the ceiling. I had to sign, because they were opaque, tin. Also, the nescafe jars were heavy.
Currently, wide-mouthed bottles are in sufficient quantity. Take advantage of this way of storing parts such as screws and nails.
Banks for small things
Store nails, hooks, screws and other small things in transparent jars. For convenience, containers can be attached with lids to shelves.
These cans are attached with lids to the bottom shelf - saving space!
Magnet for storing nails and screws
It is often inconvenient to hammer in one nail or tighten one screw and reach for the next. Yes, and you need to save time, because it does not happen much. For these purposes, magnets are perfect, you just need to choose the appropriate magnet for the appropriate purpose.
For example, for carpentry, you can glue a small magnet to a hammer. Thus, you will always have a small supply of nails on hand. This is especially true for work at height, when reaching for the next nail is both inconvenient and simply dangerous.
And here is another situation: attach a long and narrow strip of a magnet to the wall, and store on it not only hardware, but also knives, screwdrivers, keys and any other metal thing.
Storage of screws and nails
You can also just put a small magnet in your breast pocket and attach what you need on top of it.
For the construction and construction of various structures, nails and self-tapping screws, etc. are mainly used, and in this regard, you need to think about their storage.
To store screws and nails, etc., we use different containers from food products with a lid, since when buying by weight (storage in bags) or in a cardboard package (which, after opening, we were thrown away) and this didn’t suit us because it’s not convenient use for the safety of self-tapping screws, etc. If the length allows and not a large volume, then boxes from Montpensier are used, if larger, then we use the container as in the photo below.
Of the advantages of this use of storage, this is ease of carrying, relative compactness of storage (square would be more convenient), and budget.
You can also use purchased boxes, cardboard boxes, but they are not durable in use, you can make boxes from wood and plywood this season, we plan to make one for more compact storage.
In order not to look for the necessary self-tapping screw for a long time, etc., we use different containers for different lengths and try to write it on the container or use the manufacturer's markings as in the photo below.
No matter how large the garage is, the problem of compact placement of all the equipment necessary for the household is always relevant. Storing the tool on the wall will help in many ways to solve the issue of limited space - so the right one will be at hand, and useful meters will not be used in vain. By organizing a 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 a particular item. Next, let's get acquainted with the most popular and simple ideas for mounting the tool on the wall.
Organizers from cans for tools on the wall
If you don’t 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 tins attached to the walls of the garage. Such a simple idea will allow you to use the space of the workshop to the maximum and keep all the necessary tools at hand.
Screwdriver holder
A screwdriver is a very useful household item. But finding it becomes a frequent problem, since it is small and inconspicuous. So that all screwdrivers are at hand, and the efforts to find the item of the desired model are minimized, you can build a holder. To do this, just drill holes in a wooden block and attach it to the wall.
Shelf with saw cuts for tools
Drills, jigsaws and screwdrivers love no less order than any other household assistant. It is convenient to store them on a shelf with sawn holes.
garden tools
How to hang tools on the wall in the garage? Nobody wants to step on the same rake day after day, however, if they lie anywhere in the garage, this will happen more than once. A smart solution would be to remove them from the aisle and securely attach them to the wall. Holders cut from an ordinary PVC pipe can help with this.
Shelving with containers
Useful little things are conveniently placed in containers on the shelves. You can use pallets to build a rack, you may have left them after building 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 useful things, such as screws, nuts and nails, are conveniently stored in bottles or jars made of transparent plastic. In order to save space on the shelves, the containers can be attached to a hanging holder.
Important! The place of attachment is more profitable to make on the lid of the container.
- Empty cropped cans can also 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 mark the containers.
Storing band saws
It is dangerous to store bandsaw blades rolled into a ring, because in the process of unrolling them, you can get serious injury or injury. To safely store such tools on the wall, office clips can be used. 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 are various keys and drills. The tool mount on the wall can be made from magnetic tape. Thus, the drills will not get lost and will always be in order.
Tape storage:
- It is very convenient to store adhesive tape or electrical tape in a box with a metal strip distributor. This way you can easily tear off the required amount of tape without losing its ends for convenient later use.
- Another convenient method for storing duct tape is to use a coat hanger. By cutting the bottom of the hanger, you can hang some tape and tape on it. The hanger itself can be hung on a hook driven into the bottom of the rack shelf.
