In winter, doing carpentry in an unheated workshop is below average pleasure. But my hands are itchy. Therefore, I decided to implement a weekend project associated with more rough work - to install a tool panel next to the workbench.

Place for the future panel:

This problem can be solved with the help of perforated panels (made of tin or HDF) or economy panels (MDF with grooves along the entire length). On thematic forums, you can often find topics in which people brag about their workshops equipped with such panels. Looks really impressive.

But this option is not suitable for everyone. Despite the fact that the panels themselves are not cheap, you still need to buy hangers and hooks, the total cost of which will many times exceed the cost of the panel itself. In addition, the usability of hooks that do not have a rigid fixation raises questions. And it’s not clear how to fix some kind of home-made plywood suspension on such a panel?

I'll give you an example.
See the red gas wrench in the photo with a narrow hole in the handle? If, when removing, accidentally move it up a little, then the hook may come off the panel. Well, or the hook will need to be corrected. A trifle, of course, but you will have to distract time (even if only for a fraction of a second), attention and a second hand, which is likely to be busy. Of course, you can try to remove the gas key carefully so that it does not cling to anything, but doesn’t this hook require too much attention?
The same thing is likely to happen when trying to remove the red and blue handled pliers. Because the rubber grips will hook into the bracket like a Morse taper.
Although, of course, I could be wrong and my doubts are in vain.
Another detail - suspensions for just a pair of pliers and a pair of hammers will cost almost 500 rubles. As they say, count.

I am for simple and reliable solutions. Therefore, it was decided to use a sheet of ordinary 15 mm plywood as a panel. As suspensions and hooks, you can use ordinary self-tapping screws of various lengths at a price of two kopecks per kilogram, which will not go anywhere without your persistent desire. The same self-tapping screws can fix any homemade suspension. At the same time, the length of the part of the self-tapping screw sticking out of the panel can be precisely adjusted in place by screwing the self-tapping screw into the plywood even through and through. But for this, a gap must remain between the plywood and the wall.

The gap can be made using plastic washers for perforated panels. But it is more reliable to install the panel on a specially welded frame. This levels the unevenness of the wall, adds rigidity to the entire structure and allows you to set a gap of any size.
Of course, this method is also not free and not so glamorous, but it is much more practical.

I think the welding process is of little interest to anyone. The result is important. The frame is welded from my favorite fiftieth corner. All mounting holes are 8mm.
Align the frame on a sheet of plywood and mark the attachment points.

The holes in the plywood are a couple of millimeters wider than on the frame to level out minor inaccuracies.

I painted the frame with automotive paint from a can. Color - Snow Queen (with metallic). The instructions say that the paint must be applied at an ambient temperature of at least +15. However, there is no heating in the workshop and it was necessary to paint at -1. This did not affect the quality of the coverage. Most likely, the difference is only in the drying time.

The frame is attached to the wall with eight dowels 8x80. The fact is that the inter-garage wall, on which the panel is planned to be mounted, is only half a brick thick. As planned, a large number of attachment points should evenly distribute the load. In addition, some of the dowels were caught between the bricks, so their reliability is lower.

Now, looking at the finished result, I understand that it was possible to get by with half the dowels. But it's better to be overdressed than underdressed.

The plywood sheet is attached to the frame with thirteen 8x45 anchors.

Anchors are great for this task. To tighten a conventional nut with a bolt, you need access to both the nut and the bolt. But when the frame is already fixed to the wall, such access is not possible (especially when attaching plywood to the middle rail of the frame). But the anchor requires access from only one front side.

I can't even imagine what could go wrong. The only trouble that can theoretically happen with such a connection is if the nut and the edge of the hole in the corner bite through the anchor sleeve. But this is unlikely. Therefore, such a connection seems to me very reliable.

When the panel is ready, you can start placing the tool. First in line is a sledgehammer. Not having her own place, she constantly got in the way under her feet. At the same time, the prospect of its use in my workshop is vague. But you can't throw it away either. The tool! Therefore, I quickly welded a special bracket for it,

ennobled it all with spray paint

and placed in the farthest corner under the ceiling. Finally, I will stop tripping over it and, if necessary, it is always available.
A powerful frame and a large number of attachment points allow you not to think about the permissible load on the panel.

The panel area turned out to be a little more than a square meter - not a little, and there is some margin.

I installed the same toolbars in my country garage a few years ago. I used exactly the same anchors. The idea to weld a frame under the panel was born exactly there - this is due to the design of the walls. But the idea stuck.
All these years, the panels just do not get enough. In the country, I don’t use the tool so often, so something is forgotten. Sometimes it was easier to buy a new instrument than to find an old one in the rubble. Therefore, I have several building levels, several plumb lines, gas wrenches, axes and other things. In the economy, of course, everything is useful. But now I always know for sure and will not forget what tool I have, how much and where it is. The first few weeks you need to get used to the fact that each thing should have its own place. And when it becomes a habit, working in the workshop ceases to be a constant search for the right tool and stumbling over an unnecessary one.
In short, I recommend.

The whole job took a day and a half. It was possible to meet one, but without painting (I had to take a break for the paint to dry). In general, I am pleased with the result.

There is always not enough space in the garage box not only for storing unnecessary things, but also for the equipment that you are used to using on an ongoing basis. A do-it-yourself shield and tool stand in the garage will allow you to quickly organize the room and keep all the items in the right places. Let's take a closer look at each of the options.

Tool stand in the garage

A stand made of any material will be a convenient way to fix equipment on the wall in a garage box. The most important thing to understand is that heavy spare parts and tools cannot be placed on such a panel. But it is ideal for storing small items that you want to always have on hand. Moreover, any of the owners of garage boxes from improvised materials can make a stand for keys in the garage with their own hands.

Now all stand designs are divided into the following types:

• horizontal stands,
• vertical panels,
• inclined structures.

The most convenient garage owners are standard vertical stands. With their help, you can provide a tool on the wall in a personal garage directly above the workbench and workplace.

Dashboard in the garage

In order to build a panel for a tool, you do not need to have professional skills. This problem is easily solved by purchasing perforated panels (the material can be tin or HDF) or economy panels (an MDF frame with a groove along the entire perimeter of the product).

Since we are talking about the independent manufacture of tool mounting options in the garage, we will analyze the option of making a panel from an MDF sheet or plywood. Here, first of all, you need to measure the place above the workbench and determine the size of the product itself. Then lay out a piece of plywood on the floor and lay out on it everything that needs to be laid on the selected panel. The last step is to drill holes in the selected mounting points and secure the hardware with screws. As a result, professional panels with tools in the garage are made quickly and simply - all that remains is to place them on the wall in the room.

It's important to know! Often, hooks are installed on the toolboard panel in the garage without rigid fixation. For garage owners, this raises many questions, because it is difficult to fix any things on them. You can only use hooks on the wall for junk in the garage.

Do-it-yourself tool shield in the garage

Garage shield is another easy way to stow all the necessary equipment in the room. If you want to place only a few sets of keys or nozzles on the shield, then you will need to cut 2 sheets of plywood, which will become the frame of the structure. It is best to place the entire tool at a distance of 3-4 centimeters between each other so that it is easy to get all the carpentry equipment.

Having decided on the final size of the frame, you need to make auxiliary options for the holders. Their width should be no more than 5-7 centimeters. The next step is that the holders need to be marked according to the standard sizes of the tool handles. It remains only to cut out the corresponding cells and fix the holders horizontally to the frame.

This is where the most convenient and simple options for arranging tools in the garage end. Watch the video below on this topic.

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In the garage or workshop, many different tools and equipment are collected. If you do not think over the storage system, then finding the right item is not so easy. To put things in perfect order in the garage and save time spent looking for a particular tool, you need to collect all the necessary items in one convenient area. The wall mounting system is ideal for this. Thanks to this arrangement of tools in the room, it is decluttered, and the usable area is freed. All the necessary devices are placed in plain sight.

Top Best Tool Storage Ideas

Since the tools are long and short, large and small, different in shape, the ways of storing them differ. There are several methods for organizing tools. Below are the most convenient and popular of those that you can do with your own hands right on the wall.

Vertical storage rack type

One of the varieties of vertical storage of tools is a system in the form of racks. On the racks, you should place the most necessary tools that can be placed in close proximity. Items that are required less often are removed to distant racks on the upper or lower shelves. Metal garage shelves - IF systems - are perfect for this.

According to the types of installation, racks can be:

• stationary and collapsible;
• rotating or mobile;
• hinged, retractable.

But even with a large selection of options, the proposals will not always satisfy the necessary requests of the owner of the garage. Therefore, it is recommended to combine purchased racks with holders and shelves made by oneself, or to design a wall-mounted storage system completely on your own.

Very convenient vertical home-made racks made of wood with slots for storing wrenches, screwdrivers. They can easily accommodate adapter sleeves for mounting tools with a tapered shank of different sizes or pliers.

A vertical rack in the form of a mobile stand is an excellent choice for placing improvised tools. It is recommended to make it from wood or plywood. Separate groups of tools are placed on hooks, magnets or shelves. Often special perforated panels are used for vertical storage systems.

Magnetic tape

The magnetic tape is simple and easy to use. Magnetic strips are taken to mount the tool and mounted on a wall storage system. A variety of tools can be attached to the tape: from small metal wrenches and screwdrivers to large items.

plastic containers

You can easily organize the storage of even the smallest items by assembling a system from small containers. They can store:

• small parts, drills for drills;
• nails, nuts and screws, self-tapping screws;
• buttons, clips and more.

The most affordable way is plastic bottles of various sizes or plastic containers, as well as small glass jars. The containers can be stacked on a vertical shelf system or attached directly to the wall to save space.

Plastic opaque canisters with a cut off top will also work. If desired, they can be signed or numbered.

Organizers

To store small parts and items, you can easily design an organizer with your own hands:

1. They take any box from an old unnecessary table and make many small partitions inside it from cardboard or plywood. Thanks to separate cells, all the small necessary parts will always be in their place, sorted by configuration.
2. If you make the organizer yourself, then you need to take a piece of polystyrene - this will be the bottom of the organizer, and for walls and partitions - PVC (glue to the bottom with glue), you can use transparent plastic or glass for the cover.
3. You can easily and quickly make a screwdriver organizer. It can be made according to the instructions, as in paragraph 1 or 2. Or you can drill holes of the required diameters in a block of wood or foam, then attach it to the wall and insert screwdrivers into the holes. All items will be visible and will not be lost.
4. Another version of the organizer is assembled from cans of various sizes. Tin cans are quickly and firmly attached to a vertical wall in any convenient position and are filled with either small parts or tools.

Garden Tool Rack

Garden tools always take up a lot of space, clutter up the aisles. This can be avoided by choosing one of the walls of the garage or workshop and converting it to store garden tools. It is recommended to use ordinary PVC pipes to create a storage system, make holders from them according to the size of garden tools and other things:

• shovels, buckets, rakes;
• bicycle
• skis and ski poles, sledges, skates.

There are very simple options for mounting tools in the garage:

1. Racks for garden tools. They are made from ordinary wooden pallets. It is leaned with the bottom against the wall and fixed with self-tapping screws, slats of any size are nailed to the sides.
2. Another simple way is the usual strong and reliable wooden or metal hooks all over the wall, where you can hang inventory, extension cords of different sizes. Stronger brackets and shelves can be used to store wheels, tires, an inflatable boat.

Storage of garden and work equipment and other things with the help of a wall system and racks is convenient and popular.

The technology of creating a wooden rack for tools in the garage with your own hands

Before you create a storage rack with your own hands, you need to decide on the total number of tools that need to be placed.

The tool must be placed on a vertical stand in a safe position.

Create a project

To make the wall system convenient, they draw up a drawing plan of the future design on paper, which takes into account all the requirements for the system:

• Calculate the height and width of the rack - it is better to use the entire wall from the bottom to the very top.
• The recommended depth of niches for the rack is up to 65 cm, and the width between the vertical supports of the shelves is up to 1 m.
• The required number of shelves is determined, including how many holder shelves with cuts for the tool will be.
• At the bottom, they make spacious floor shelves and racks for tires, wheels and for large carpentry tools.
• Mark out places for magnetic tapes, hooks, holders.
• They calculate how many organizers and containers are required, what sizes, and also determine their location.
• Sort tools and all small fasteners and parts for storage.

Required tool

For the manufacture of the rack prepare the tools:

• measuring tape, square, level;
• saw, grinder;
• fasteners;
• hammer, drill.

Material preparation

All the necessary material is being prepared to create the rack, according to the draft:

• Perforated panel can be used for the main holder panel.
• If the rack is made of wood, it is recommended to purchase oak or pine lumber without cracks or knots.
• Wooden boards up to 2.5 cm thick will be required for shelves.
• Shelves can be made from plywood and laminated.
• The vertical racks of the frame are made of timber 10 × 10 cm.
• Wooden boards are preliminarily recommended to be treated with anti-mold and fungus agents, painted.
• To assemble a metal frame, a rectangular profile and corners (up to 2 cm) are required.

Manufacturing of components

The order of manufacture of the rack and accessories is as follows:

1. According to the given dimensions, vertical racks of timber and boards or plywood are cut into shelves, and a perforated panel is prepared. Designate shelves.
2. For the manufacture of a metal frame, they cut blanks of the desired height with a grinder and mark the locations of the shelves. Assemble the frame with fasteners, corners. A primer is applied, then the parts are coated with anti-corrosion paint.
3. Shelves are assembled from boards. They are tightly pressed against each other and hammered together with nails or screws.
4. Board shelves are assembled by laying elements across the frame, so they can withstand a lot of weight. If the shelves are assembled by laying the boards along the frame, then there is a chance that they will sag under the weight of the tools.
5. The structure is assembled using self-tapping screws, nails and wood glue.
6. The joints of all parts are additionally reinforced with metal corners.
7. The entire structure is mounted to the wall and secured with metal brackets.
8. Separately, shelves with cuts, holders, magnetic tapes, racks, containers and organizers are manufactured in the required quantity.
9. You may need a small work table with a vise made of wooden boards. It can be attached to the wall system as a fixed or folding surface on metal or wooden holders.

Assembly

First, the rack frame is assembled, then wooden shelves are attached to it with self-tapping screws. The shelves of the rack are filled with pull-out baskets, organizers, containers and other holders. Hooks, magnets and magnetic tapes are attached to the perforated panel. Tools are placed on them. For convenient fixing of pliers, a fastener in the form of a crossbar is installed on the perforated panel. Containers are filled with small fasteners, tools. Garden tools, bicycles, tires and wheels, skis, skates and sleds are hung on holders or racks, or placed in containers.

Processing and painting of the finished product

The finished rack is once again treated for mold, the ends are painted over in several layers of paint. Containers and organizers can be painted in the same color as the rack itself.

Most often, a workshop or garage does not look the best because of clutter. But thanks to the creation of a wall-mounted system for storing tools in the form of racks, all the necessary necessary items, fasteners, inventory will be correctly sorted and placed. The room will take on a neat appearance, and all work can be done quickly and without delay.

Installing the tool rack

The perforated shield can be mounted on a metal workbench or fastened to the wall with self-tapping screws. Especially for this, its dimensions correspond to the length of single-pedestal and two-pedestal models without pedestal. The screen is attached to the table with special stands and brackets. It is possible to install one or two panels. The cutouts on the panel flanging are made in such a way that it can be hung horizontally and vertically, which helps to optimally fill the area, bypassing the existing communications and terrain.
Mounting the grid on the wall is quite simple. On the back side there are 4 curly cutouts. 4 screws are screwed in, and then the panel is hung on them like a wall clock. You can make markings before drilling with any thin, sharp nail or awl on the front side.

Mounting the tool on the shield

The pitch of the holes is 15mm. This allows you to fill the shield with the necessary tool as completely as possible. The distance between the hook attachment centers is 30mm. Diameter of openings of the punched screen - 5 mm. For screwdrivers, grips, and other small items, provided. Metal perforated panel Ferrum (Ferrum) is produced from high-strength steel with a thickness of 1.2 mm, which allows you to place heavy tools.
The perforated screen is painted with a polymer coating that is resistant to temperature changes and aggressive substances.

Perforation loads

If the metal perforations are mounted on brackets on a workbench, the distributed load is 100 kg.

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