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For rational use of space, communications and do-it-yourself garage accessories from scrap materials are used. It is necessary to involve walls, an underground level in the process, place it indoors, and organize normal lighting.
Homemade gadgets for the garage
For comfortable operation of a room intended for car storage, you should adhere to certain recommendations:
Depending on the dimensions of the building, the area occupied by equipment, fixtures, and communications should not be more than 10–20% of the size of the garage floor.
Storage areas, racks, workbenches
In 80% of cases, do-it-yourself garage fixtures are built to store accessories, tools, and vehicle equipment. It should be taken into account that the most bulky parts of the car are sets of winter/summer tires, depending on the season.
The main nuances of these designs are:
The width of the pit should allow the driver to enter it without lighting.
Lighting and ventilation
In garages, parallel circuits of lighting fixtures are more often used. One lamp allows you to use a specific area, several devices are turned on during a major renovation or a visit to the cellar. Minimum power consumption is ensured. Daylighting devices have a great resource.
Cars use toxic, harmful fuels and lubricants, so do-it-yourself garage ventilation devices that allow you to create air exchange are becoming relevant. The influx is organized from below:
- garage - vents in the masonry, protected by bars;
- cellar - pipe from the garage or from the street.
The hood is mounted under the ceiling of the cellar, the roof of the garage, or has the form of vents in the main walls at the highest points.
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Other useful ideas
Useful accessories for the garage with your own hands can be made from used dishes, equipment, and materials left over from construction. For example, by gluing the lids of plastic cans horizontally/vertically, the owner receives convenient transparent containers for equipment or hardware, which are always at hand.
Homemade machines
You can also assemble accessories for the garage from power tools:
- drilling - a drill fixed with clamps in a device that moves with a gear along a rack;
- cutting - an angle grinder clamped in a similar way with equipment for metal or wood;
The advantage of the machines is more accurate positioning of the equipment relative to the workpiece. The equipment turns out to be dismountable, the drill and angle grinder can be removed and used for their intended purpose.
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Hydropress
The simplest design is obtained from a car hydraulic jack. To press out/press in bearings and press/compress parts, you will need to build a frame and a removable movable stop. The frame consists of 4 channels welded to each other. At the top, the structure is reinforced with stiffening ribs (kerchiefs), and at the bottom, transverse corners are added, giving the frame stability.
The stop is pulled in the normal position to the top crossbar of the frame by powerful springs. A hydraulic jack is installed between them, pressing the stop against the lower crossbar of the frame as necessary. The press force is regulated by a jack, the dimensions of the working area are selected depending on the size of the workpieces.
And finally, a few more examples of useful things for the garage.
Video from the channel “TEXaS TV”. Topic: gadgets and more for the garage. At one time, when the master was just starting to repair cars, there was no money for a good tool. Complex and expensive designs had to be made by myself. The author of the channel decided to prepare a review of homemade devices.
Watch the YouTube channel video “Hands from Shoulders”. Excellent devices for the garage and cottage.
If you have an old vacuum cleaner lying around, you can put it back into service by repurposing it, for example, a blower. With its help, you can quickly clean dust from some equipment or restore order on the street. You will need rubber seals, a motor and part of the housing. We redesign the button, leg, handles and get a compact and convenient device. To focus the flow in this case, the fire extinguisher socket. There are probably plenty more alternative options.
This summer we plan to build a similar dryer at our dacha. It can be used not only for fish, but also for meat, apples, and mushrooms. Cool option. There is a thermostat that maintains the required temperature in the chamber. Air intake from 150 ventilation pipe. It has a built-in heater consisting of two incandescent lamps. On top there is a mosquito net filter. Fan from a server rack. The outlets are directed to the street.
An interesting design of a milling copier. Movement along shafts with a diameter of 20 mm is carried out using linear bearings.
If you build something from foam blocks, then you have probably felt the beauty of lifting them to the floors. It's still a pleasure. Weight more than 30 kilograms. A simple grip design together with a winch or electric hoist will make work easier.
An improved version of the vice for welding work. Additional instructions were added to the device, which made it possible to connect parts in 3 planes at once.
At the beginning of May, the busy season begins for summer residents, including potato growers. If you have a walk-behind tractor, then it makes sense to think about automating the harvesting process. Moreover, we have a whole summer to prepare. This digger is of a screening type, but there is no sound in it as such. This greatly simplifies the process of making the device. Instead, the rods on the ploughshare were extended. The soil with potatoes is picked up by a ploughshare and served on a table made of twigs. The latter vibrates, the soil wakes up through the cracks, and the root crops on the other side fall to the ground. All that remains is to pick it up and put it in a container.
In a private home, a garden shredder is a useful thing. There is no need to think about where to put the cut branches. Secondly, your garden will repay such fertilizer with an excellent harvest. The knives are mounted on disks 16 mm thick. Cutting elements made from springs. Hammers for chopping branches to the required size.
Many men are delusional about building a comfortable garage, but when the structure is finally ready, they think about how to make it functional, practical, and spacious at the same time.
After all, a motorhome should be used not only for the purpose of storing a car, but also for storing gardening tools, tools, and additional sets of tires, which will allow you not to clutter up your residential building with these items. Homemade products for the garage will allow you to endow such a small space with the described qualities: original solutions with a minimum of material costs, below.
Arranging a motorhome is not just a one-time selection in the garage with your own hands, pieces of furniture, various storage systems, all kinds of tools, a home handyman, but a system of measures aimed at rational planning of space, giving it high functionality and the maximum level of comfort.
It is important not only to select garage interior items, but also to arrange them correctly so that the space can be used comfortably and the space itself is filled with coziness.
A cool environment inside a garage building is not at all an unattainable dream, but a reality for many experienced car owners. How to do this if there is no big money?
You can think over, design and manufacture unique devices for the garage, which will allow you to rationally solve the issue of storing many items of different sizes, shapes, and purposes inside the building.
Alarm from a mobile phone.
Do-it-yourself homemade garage home products allow you to solve many issues related to storing specific items inside the motorhome:
- how to arrange tires and wheels so as not to maintain the possibility of free movement around the area;
- how to organize a workplace for the purpose of car repairs and plumbing work;
- where to store garden tools that are important for the household;
- is it possible to make carriers without owning a drawing, or is it impossible to do without a homemade garage diagram when working;
- how to construct a compressor with your own hands: homemade for advanced craftsmen.
We will try to describe the topics raised in as much detail as possible below.
Tire and wheel storage
Not a single car owner will be spared the problem of storing out-of-season “shoes” of his vehicle. Where to put tires so that they do not clutter up the garage building? If you use the ideas of experienced car owners, solving this problem will not be difficult.
The choice of storage method for puller tires is influenced by the nature of their installation. Products with discs should be hung from luggage straps, chains, metal cables with a diameter of 4 mm, or stored lying down in stacks. Belt fastenings must be of high quality and reliable. They are installed under the ceiling on a wall surface and fixed to a beam located on top.
How to store tires in a garage?
You can also drive pins or hooks into the wall surface, the bend of which is not very large. The products are mounted in increments slightly larger than the diameter of the tire. Select the length of the pins so that such devices for the garage stick out above the tire by 1-2 cm, no more. They should be stuffed not just under the ceiling surface, but a little lower, so that the wheels fit in without difficulty.
Tires without rims cannot be stored in stacks: only while standing. It is better to organize separate shelves by welding a structure from a profiled pipe 20x20 or 30x30 mm. In addition, you can use a corner. You should avoid using a round pipe, as it is difficult to weld with an inverter welding machine.
Make cross members out of it so that the tires fit and hold up better.
Make the shelves in the following sizes.
Place the shelf on the wall where light will not fall on the rubber, otherwise it will deteriorate.
Important! When setting up a motorhome, it is important to adhere to safety rules. If a person is inside a building, the doors should open instantly, without obstacles! No tool storage facilities should overly clutter the garage, leaving no room for a person to pass through.
Workplace
Most homemade garage devices are made by car owners with the aim of equipping a comfortable workplace, as well as creating a well-thought-out tool storage system.
Various types of shelves and smart shelving are the most popular ways to solve this problem, but there are others. We will describe the sequence of actions, following which any car owner will be able to create a comfortable work area inside the motorhome.
Bearing removal device.
At the initial stage, we will determine where to place the workbench with tools.
There are several options:
- Use the entire width of the far wall for it.
This solution is relevant when the motorhome is quite spacious, characterized by sufficient length, with the ability to “steal” about 1.5 m of the main area. The positive side of this solution is the possibility of compact arrangement of products. Nothing will interfere with the passage along the vehicle in the garage building. The weak point of this idea is the fact that a person will have to travel a considerable distance to the workbench to pick up the tool when working outdoors. - Use one of the long walls.
This idea suits a wide garage of short length. Place the table or workbench to the left of the entrance and on the side of the driver's door. It will be much easier to remove current equipment from the garage, but you will need to move along the car carefully. - Corner position of the table.
It is a good option, as it allows you to rationally plan the space of a free corner. Experts advise: you can increase the functionality of the work area by making one side of the table longer than the other. There will be plenty of space left in the garage for the car.
Next you need to understand what kind of table is worth constructing. You can use the option of boards covered with plywood. Such devices for the garage will cost little money, but at the same time they will be quite comfortable.
If the car owner knows how to weld, you can make your own frame from a corner, and then cover it with moisture-resistant plywood. You can also use more expensive materials if your budget allows it.
Where to store small tools? Install shelves and drawers under the table surface. The second option is more convenient, but it is much more difficult to make shelves. You can choose ready-made baskets made of plastic with thick walls.
On a note! You can use the original idea and construct racks for tools from used canisters with a handle on top. Cut out one of the sides and use the canister as a box.
Tool storage
It is very important to organize the storage of tools for a garage, cottage, or car service. in such a way that everything lies according to the chosen order, is always at hand, and is quickly available for work.
You can prepare homemade closed boxes, but with such a storage system it is difficult to remember where a specific item is. If you do not return the tool to its place, after a while it will be extremely difficult to find it: you will need to open the structure and rummage through the contents of all the drawers.
There are several ideas for storing small items and tools rationally:
Metal mesh made of 2 mm wire with a 10 cm cage
It is attached to the wall surface by biting it off and bending some twigs. By creating unique hooks and adding crossbars to the cage, you can use it for storing small items. Stores sell special hooks that can be attached to the mesh if you don’t want to make them yourself.
Making a special shelf for screwdrivers
Take a board or plywood with a thickness of 15 mm. Sand the material thoroughly so that there is no residue left when you touch it. Next, drill one or more rows of holes of different diameters. If the width of the board allows, make some holes large. They will fit chisels and hammer handles.
On a note! Be sure to clean the resulting chips with sandpaper. Such a shelf is hung on the wall using a regular bracket.
Pliers, pliers and wire cutters
Creating a board for pliers, pliers, wire cutters. Such inventory is extremely difficult to store in a convenient way. Sometimes they are hung on a net, but this is inconvenient. It is better to attach a narrow board to the wall on which you place the tool. To achieve comfortable use, one side of the board needs to be ground down. Then in the cut it will look like an isosceles triangle, and the tool will fit more securely.
Rechargeable batteries
To store battery-powered tools, chargers and spare batteries, you should make a box with a cross shelf. Make cuts of different formats in the bottom of the box and insert power tools into it, and use the cross shelf and the box lid as regular shelves.
Homemade carriers for the garage
Even a well-lit motorhome has one drawback: under the bottom of the car it is dark, almost like night. To create illumination for this area, it is worth using portable carriers for the garage. These are the simplest, but very useful devices for the garage, which are easy to make with your own hands.
The design of the product is simple: a cartridge with a small screen and a hook are attached to the wire. An ordinary incandescent light bulb or housekeeper is inserted into it. To avoid accidentally breaking the light bulb, it is important to find a convenient place to hang the carrier.
It is also important to choose the location of the light bulb so that the light it emits is directed in the right direction. In other words, the system can be improved, and we will explain how later.
Unbreakable lamp socket
It is important to provide for every little detail in the garage: everything needed to repair a car must be safe. Therefore, it is worth modifying a regular cartridge, giving it unbreakable qualities. Make a kind of lampshade from a plastic bottle that will reliably protect the fragile bulb of an energy-saving light bulb.
You can also apply an LED lamp to such a lampshade, and the incandescent lamp will heat up and melt the plastic.
To create a plastic lampshade, you will need to do the following:
- find a translucent bottle with medium-thick walls;
- arrange a window in it 1/4 of the diameter of the bottle itself;
- cut the neck so that a lamp can be mounted inside the product, but in such a way that the screwed-in bulb presses it against the socket;
- assemble the design, try it.
Carrying LED Recessed Light
We continue the section “tips from a garage homemade product.” Another way to modify an ordinary carrier for working in a garage pit is to replace the incandescent lamp with a flat LED recessed lamp operating from a 220 V network. We’ll tell you how to do this from a regular product below.
Drawing of an LED lamp.
You will also need a cord with a plug, a piece of plastic window sill, slightly larger in size than the lamp itself, for mounting the light device.
The car owner chooses the dimensions at his own discretion, and the sequence of work is as follows:
- on one side, cut a hole in the window sill, the diameter of which is smaller than the diameter of the lamp body;
- remove the standard mount of the device;
- pass the wiring through the cells of the window sill, bring it out into the organized hole;
- connect the lamp;
- glue it to the base;
- cut strips of plastic from the window sill and seal the sides with them;
- Bend a bracket from a piece of tin, screwing it to the lamp with self-tapping screws.
Bottom line
The main idea when arranging a building for a car or a country house, which should be adhered to in your work, is rational space planning. Place items so that they are all at hand and stored in order.
Interesting and useful homemade products for the garage will help you do this. Then the dacha or garage will always look neat, and it will be cozy to be inside the building.
A garage is more than just a place to park a car. It is also a workshop, a place of relaxation, and a club of interests. Therefore, the arrangement of the garage should be convenient and thoughtful. You need to place a lot of things in a small area, and they should be convenient to use. Homemade products for the garage will help with this. What people don’t do with their own hands. From a simple shelf to a complex device. You can make all this yourself. But you need to know how. Several ideas for modernizing a garage and a plan for their implementation are in the article.
Homemade garage: ideas for arrangement
Setting up a garage is a long process. You won’t be able to do everything right away. You have to constantly modernize, change, and create something new. In this case, they mainly use homemade products for the garage. It requires less money and is also a pleasure - making the right thing out of garbage is worth a lot.
Tire and wheel storage
Every car owner is faced with the problem of storing out-of-season “shoes” for the car. Where to put the tires is a sore point. In general, the way tires are stored depends on whether they are mounted on rims or not.
So tires with rims can be hung or stored lying down - in the form of a stack, stacking them one on top of the other. To hang tires, you can use luggage straps, chains, or a metal cable with a diameter of 4 mm or more in a polyethylene sheath. Fasten the belts to the ceiling, wall, or beam located above.
Another available method is to drive pins or hooks with a small bending radius into the wall. The distance between the hooks is slightly larger than the diameter of the tires. The length of the pins should be such that they do not protrude beyond the tire. You can fill them almost to the ceiling so that the wheels fit.
Tires without rims can only be stored standing up. Special shelves are made for them. They are usually welded from profiled pipes. 20*20 mm, maximum 30*30 mm. You can also use a corner. It is inconvenient to weld a round pipe, but cross members can be made from it - the tires fit and hold better in this case.
The width of the shelf is 4 times the width of the tire, plus a margin of 10-15 cm for some freedom. The height of the rear wall is slightly higher than the outer diameter of the wheel. The design is simple = from the side it resembles a right triangle. Having it, welding such a shelf will not be difficult.
A shelf for storing tires is an excellent homemade product for the garage. This is a factory option with a completely inhumane price tag. But you can borrow an idea - the crossbars can be rearranged depending on the size of the tires... you never know. A shelf for tires in a garage with limited space. No tires - you can fold the shelf
Such shelves are usually hung on the wall. But the place must be chosen so that light does not fall on the rubber - this will deteriorate it. Not the most complicated DIY projects for the garage, but very useful.
Workplace
Probably the largest number of homemade projects for the garage is related to the equipment of the workplace and tool storage systems. Moreover, this is not the only way to solve this problem. First of all, you need to decide where the workplace will be located. There are three options:
- The entire width of the far wall. If the garage is of sufficient length and it is possible to “steal” about 1.5 meters. The advantage is that everything is located compactly, at hand, and does not interfere with walking along the car. The disadvantage of this solution is that you have to carry tools far away if work is carried out outdoors.
Tabletop and many drawers. The main thing is to remember where everything is
- Along one of the long walls. This arrangement is chosen if the garage is wide but not long enough. It makes sense to place the table and workbench to the left of the entrance - on the driver’s side. But this is not critical. The disadvantage of this arrangement of the workplace in the garage is that you have to move with some caution, but it is more convenient to bring/take out tools outside.
The main thing is to place the tools correctly
- Occupying one of the corners. This is an intermediate option. Moreover, one of the sides can be made longer, the other shorter.
Placing a desktop in the corner of the garage and placing a sofa next to it is not a solution to the problem. Occupying two adjacent sides is a great idea.
A table or workbench for a garage is made of boards and covered with plywood. Inexpensive, quite reliable. If you have a welding machine and verification skills, you can weld a frame from a corner or profiled pipe. Again, it is better to sheathe it with moisture-resistant plywood. The result is a smooth, abrasion-resistant surface. You can, of course, use it, but the laminating layer is quickly damaged.
To prevent the space from wandering around, you can install shelves or make drawers under the countertop. Boxes are more convenient, but making them is still a hassle. It is quite possible to make shelves and put boxes made of plywood on them. Plastic boxes and baskets are also suitable. But the walls must be thick.
By the way, there is a useful idea - to make a rack for storing tools from used canisters. Find ones that have the handle on top. Then everything is simple - one of the sides is cut out and in the future this canister is used as a box.
It’s not necessary to make a whole rack - it’s still difficult to remember where and what is located. But you can use the same principle to make drawers for shelves. By the way, you can stick inscriptions or pictures on the ends (with pictures, identification is faster). Such DIY projects for the garage bring satisfaction - creating a useful thing from garbage is a pleasant feeling.
Tool storage
The most difficult task is organizing tool storage in the garage. We need to make sure that everything is in order, but at the same time, is at hand and in sight. Moreover, closed boxes are suitable only for very organized people who always put the taken item back in its place. Otherwise, you will constantly rummage through drawers, forgetting where everything is. There are several ideas for convenient storage of small items and tools. These are very simple DIY projects for the garage.
An ordinary metal mesh will help to quickly solve the problem. A reinforcing mesh made of 2 mm wire, a 10 cm cage, is suitable. Attach it to the wall, bite off some rods, bend them, make hooks, crossbars, etc. out of them. You can buy special hooks that are attached to the mesh (available in stores that sell commercial equipment); ordinary double-sided hooks, which you can buy or make from wire, are also suitable.
A grid on the wall is a way to quickly organize tool storage
It is convenient to store screwdrivers on a special shelf. Take a board or plywood, 10-15 mm thick. The board must be sanded well so that there are no splinters. Then drill holes of different diameters in one or two rows in the plane. If the board is wide enough, you can make larger holes for chisels or even hammer handles. Clean all the chips again. Now we need to come up with a wall mount. You can use a regular bracket. Screwdrivers, chisels, and other similar materials are inserted into the holes. Convenient, fast, everything is in sight.
There are also useful homemade products for the garage that allow you to organize the storage of hand tools. Pliers, pliers, wire cutters, etc. placing it conveniently is problematic. Can be hung on a net. It’s convenient to remove, but not to hang. But there is a simple solution - attach a narrow board and put the tool on it. To make it sit comfortably, grind down the board on one side. When cut, it should look like an isosceles triangle.
Another simple idea for storing cordless tools, chargers and spare batteries for them. Make a shelf as in the photo above. In the lower part, cuts of different formats are made, and the upper parts are used as regular shelves. The idea is that everything is in one place, quickly taken out/installed in place. These garage DIY projects will make your workspace comfortable. It will be easy to maintain order.
Homemade carriers for the garage
Even with very good lighting in the garage itself or on the street during the day, visibility under the bottom of the car is very low. To illuminate the front of the work, portable lamps are used. These are the simplest DIY projects for the garage. With them you can begin the epic of arranging and equipping your garage space.
In its simplest form, it is a cartridge attached to a wire; a small screen with a hook can be attached to it. This is such a simple thing. The light bulbs used are ordinary ones - incandescent or economy ones with a standard socket. Everything is not bad, except that these light bulbs break very often, you need to figure out how to hang them so that they shine in a specific place. In general, the design needs improvement. There are several modification options.
Unbreakable lamp socket
This plastic bottle lampshade perfectly protects the fragile bulb of an energy-saving lamp. You can also use an LED lamp, but an incandescent lamp will not work - it gets too hot. The design is simple - a cord with a plug and a cartridge at the end.
The main task is to find a plastic vessel with walls made of translucent milky plastic of medium thickness. Transparent will not work - it will not scatter light, too thin walls will not save the lamp from impacts. After you have found a suitable vessel, some small change remains:
Everything is simple, but such a lamp allows you to brightly illuminate exactly the desired area, the rest of the space is filled with even light that does not hurt the eyes.
Carrying LED Recessed Light
The simplest and most common homemade products for the garage are portable lamps. Without them, it is inconvenient to work not only in, but even just on a workbench. You need a flat recessed LED lamp that can be turned on at 220 V. These models are called “tablets” because of their shape. You also need a cord with a plug and a piece of plastic window sill to install the lamp. The window sill piece should be larger in size than the lamp. You choose the specific sizes yourself. The next steps are:
That's it, the homemade carrier is ready. This option is for floor installation. The movable leg allows you to change the angle of inclination. To make it turn over less, you can attach a couple of weights inside the body (in its lower part).
Attach the carrying cord to the ceiling
Convenience comes from little things, and very simple homemade products for the garage help with this. For example, you can remove the cable from a portable lamp that always gets tangled under your feet. Carrying is usually done with a cheap cable. It is not the most flexible, does not fold well, and its coils on the floor get under your feet. In general, it is inconvenient to use. You can protect yourself and carry it by hanging the cable from the ceiling. The solution is simple but very effective.
You can make this “suspension” to the ceiling for carrying with your own hands in an hour
- Two anchors with a ring at the end.
- Cable tie.
- Clamp clamp.
- Metal cable. The length depends on the size of the garage - it needs to be from one wall to the other.
- Steel/plastic rings or steel wire and a piece of pipe to make these rings.
- Carrying with a long cable - its length is approximately double the length of the garage.
The cable is stretched along the long side of the garage. It’s more convenient - not far from the “working” wall, where the workbench or other equipment is located. A little work:
Well, that's all. You can use it. With such a device, the carrier can be carried to any end of the garage without the cable getting tangled or caught. Convenient, takes little time.
DIY garage compressor
A compressor is needed in any garage. And, by the way, this is not the most difficult homemade product for the garage. A low-power compressor for the garage for inflating tires and other small jobs can be made with your own hands from auxiliary materials. For example, from a compressor from a refrigerator. For this you will need:
- refrigerator compressor;
- a sealed cylinder with thick walls (you can use a fire extinguisher flask or a small gas cylinder);
- safety valve 8 atm;
- pressure gauge;
- fitting;
- oxygen hoses with couplings (select the length based on the size of your spare parts);
- base for the compressor - a thick board or piece of plywood will do.
In order not to pump any nasty stuff into the tires, it is advisable to also install a filter to separate oils, dust and other contaminants. The diagram of a homemade compressor is shown in the photo.
The compressor must have a starting device. We plug it into the network, see which tube the air is sucked into, and mark it. You can put a car filter on it - clean air will be pumped in.
We assemble an oil separator receiver from a cylinder and a safety valve. To do this, we cut two fittings into the cylinder - for air inlet and outlet. We place a safety valve on the inlet hole and connect the compressor outlet to it using an oxygen hose.
We install another automobile oil filter at the outlet of the oil separator receiver to completely remove the oil. We connect the filter to the pressure gauge, and from it comes a hose, which is connected to the tire through the appropriate adapter.
Assembly is complete. But in order to carry this device comfortably, everything needs to be secured in some way. You can weld the frame to size, attach wheels and a handle for easy transportation. One of the compressor options for inflating wheels is described in the video. There is no receiver, but its functions are performed by an oil filter. You can do it this way, but with a receiver the design is more reliable.
Since the compressor in the refrigerator is low-power, it may take a long time to inflate the tires. You can make it more powerful by installing two compressors that will start simultaneously. Accordingly, the pressure will build up twice as fast. But such an installation requires a more robust security group. Such homemade products require a little more equipment, since the circuit is still more complicated.
The garage is the holy of holies for any car enthusiast. Almost every man who is the proud owner of a garage spends perhaps more time in it than at home with his family. Car enthusiasts and craftsmen use these types of premises for work, repairing cars or other equipment, producing furniture or various useful things for the home, as well as just friendly get-togethers with friends. To make their garage as comfortable and functional as possible, men are ready to do anything. In this article we will give some interesting ideas on how to make it yourself and thereby simplify your leisure time in it.
First you need. In order to properly equip a garage and rationally use all of its rather small space, you can use the following garage homemade products:
- Racks or stands along the entire length of the wall;
- Shelves (closed or open type);
- Tables with cabinets;
- Oversized drawers or shelves for storing large items;
- Hooks and hooks for hanging items;
- Secret drawers or shelves;
- Lockable drawers;
- Metal frames for storing spare wheels and replacement tires;
- Steel mesh;
- Inspection pit for car repair;
- Cellar or basement for storing vegetables and canning.
Now let’s look at how to make some of the listed crafts in the garage with your own hands.
Shelves
Such convenient devices as shelves can, of course, be made from wooden boards and metal fasteners. Or you can use the life hacks of other car enthusiasts - make shelves for storing nails, screws, bolts and nuts from plastic bottles:
- If you need open holders for all sorts of small things, then you need to cut the base of a plastic jar or small bottle in half without touching the threads. Then the thread must be screwed into the cap of the container and the outer side of the cap must be glued or screwed to the wall so that the cut part of the bottle faces up. As a result, the remaining part of the container will serve as a kind of holder for various kinds of things.
- The same small parts and materials can also be stored in closed plastic containers. To do this, you just need to glue or screw their lids to the shelves below so that the jar is in a vertical position. When you need to take something from the container, you just need to unscrew it from the lid.
- Any household or building material can serve as a shelf in the garage. So, for example, a piece of sewer pipe or a cardboard cylinder mounted on a wall or under the ceiling can be used as an excellent place to store long items. And the halves of plastic plates screwed to the wall will serve as convenient pockets for grinder discs.
Shelving
In order to store tools, things and various accessories of the owner of the garage, it is advisable to equip it with a large and durable rack. This kind of homemade work in the garage can be done in several ways:
- The most reliable is a rack made of metal and wood. Steel rails provide a strong base and support for wooden shelves. Shelves made of steel will be even stronger and more durable.
- You can also make a shelving unit with your own hands for your garage entirely out of wood. For this you will need a medium and thick board (19cm). It is necessary to cut supports for the rack from the middle board, and to make shelves from the thick one. All parts of the structure must be secured with screws, and its surface must be opened with oil varnish.
- The most budget-friendly homemade products for a garage in the form of a rack can be made from 50x100 timber, 50x25 boards and plywood. The timber in this structure will act as legs, boards as transverse guides, and plywood as shelves.
Attention! You should not place tools and things whose total weight exceeds 500 kg on a DIY rack. This kind of useful homemade product for the garage is designed to withstand a weight of up to 200 kg.
Boxes
One of the “Kulibins” became the author of such an invention as boxes in the form of cut plastic canisters. If you carefully cut off the side wall of the canister and place it with the opposite side on a shelf, then such a container can easily turn into a drawer with a handle.
Frame for storing winter tires and wheels. Such a frame can be equipped with metal corners. The corners must be connected to each other using any rolled metal product. If you are planning a hanging frame for wheels, then you must first build two triangles from the corners, which will later be connected by two more corners. The connecting corners will act as wheel holders, so the distance between them should be such that the wheels do not fall into it, but only sag a little. If the idea was to make a standing rack for wheels, then a rectangular frame is simply made from the corners.
Other homemade products
Here are a few more homemade things that you can build in the garage with your own hands:
Let's hope that thanks to the photos, useful tips and instructions in the article, you will easily be able to build homemade products with your own hands for a garage or other utility room.