Homemade Garage – Useful Ideas

A garage is more than just a place to park a car. It is also a workshop, and a place of rest, and an interest club. Therefore, the arrangement of the garage should be convenient and thoughtful. In a small area, you need to place a lot of things, and it should be convenient to use them. This will help homemade for the garage. What people do not do with their own hands. From an elementary shelf to a complex device. All this can be made independently. But you need to know how. A few ideas for modernizing the garage and a plan for their implementation in the article. 

Homemade for the garage: ideas for arrangement

Arranging a garage is a long process. You can’t do everything right away, you have to constantly modernize something, change, make something new. At the same time, they mainly use homemade products for the garage. It requires less money, and it’s even more fun – making the right thing out of the garbage is worth a lot.

Tire and wheel storage

Each car owner is faced with the problem of storing off-season “shoes” for the car. Where to stick the tires is a sore point. In general, how tires are stored depends on whether they are mounted on rims or not.

So tires with disks can be hung or stored lying down – in the form of a stack, stacking them one on top of the other. For hanging tires, you can use luggage straps, chains, a metal cable with a diameter of 4 mm or more in a polyethylene sheath. Fasten the belts to the ceiling, wall, to the beam located on top.

Another affordable way is to drive pins or hooks with a small bending radius into the wall. The distance between the hooks is slightly more than the diameter of the tires. The length of the pins must be such that they do not stick out of the tire. You can fill them almost under the ceiling so that the wheels fit.

Tires without rims can only be stored standing up. They make special shelves for them. They are usually welded from a profiled pipe. 20*20mm, maximum 30*30mm. You can also use a corner. It is inconvenient to weld a round pipe, but crossbars can be made from it – the tires fit and hold better in this case.

Shelf width – 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 = the side resembles a right triangle. Having an inverter welding machine, it will not be difficult to weld such a shelf.

Such shelves are usually hung on the wall. But the place must be chosen so that the light does not fall on the rubber – it deteriorates from this. Not the most difficult DIY for the garage, but very useful.

Workplace

Probably the largest number of homemade products for the garage is associated with workplace equipment and tool storage systems. Moreover, shelves and racks in the garage are 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:

• Full width of the far wall. If the garage is long enough and it is possible to “steal” about 1,5 meters. Dignity – everything is located compactly, at hand, does not interfere with walking along the car. The disadvantage of this solution is that you have to carry tools far if work is carried out on the street.
• Along one of the long walls. This arrangement is chosen if the garage is wide, but not long enough. It makes sense to place a table and a workbench to the left of the entrance – from the driver’s seat. But this is not critical. The disadvantage of such an arrangement of the workplace in the garage is that you have to move with some caution, but it is more convenient to bring in / take out tools on the street.
• Taking one of the corners. This is an intermediate option. Moreover, one of the sides can be made longer, the other – shorter.

A table or a workbench for a garage is made of boards, sheathed with plywood. Inexpensive, very reliable. If you have a welding machine and reconciliation skills, you can weld a frame from a corner or a profiled pipe. It is better to sheathe again with moisture-resistant plywood. This results in a smooth, abrasion-resistant surface. You can, of course, use laminated chipboard (LDSP), but the laminating layer is quickly damaged.

To prevent the place from “walking”, you can install shelves under the tabletop or make drawers. Boxes are more convenient, but making them is still a hassle. It is quite possible to make shelves and put boxes knocked out 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. Look for the ones with the handle on top. Further, everything is simple – one of the sidewalls is cut out and in the future this canister is used as a box.

It is not necessary to make a whole rack – it is still difficult to remember where, what is. But by the same principle, you can make boxes for shelves. By the way, you can stick inscriptions or pictures on the ends (identification is faster with pictures). Such homemade garage crafts bring satisfaction – creating a useful thing from garbage is a pleasant feeling.

Tool storage

The most difficult task is to organize the storage of tools in the garage. It is necessary to make sure that everything is in order, but, at the same time, is at hand and in plain sight. Moreover, closed boxes are suitable only for very organized people who always put the thing they have taken in its place. Otherwise, you will constantly rummage through the boxes, forgetting where everything is. There are several ideas for convenient storage of small items and tools. These are very simple homemade products for the garage.

An ordinary metal mesh will help to quickly solve the problem. A reinforcing mesh of 2 mm wire, a cage of 10 cm is suitable. Attach it to the wall, bite off some twigs, bend them, make hooks, crossbars, etc. out of them. You can buy special hooks that are attached to the net (available in stores selling commercial equipment), ordinary double-sided hooks that can be bought or made from wire are also suitable.

Screwdrivers are conveniently stored on a special shelf. Take a board, plywood, 10-15 mm thick. The board must be well sanded – so that there are no splinters. Then, in a plane, drill holes of different diameters in one or two rows. If the board is wide enough, you can make larger holes – for chisels or even for 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 material are inserted into the holes. Convenient, fast, everything.

There are also useful homemade products for the garage that allow you to organize the storage of hand tools. Pliers, pliers, wire cutters, etc. placement is problematic. Can be hung on a net. It is convenient to shoot, but not to hang. But there is a simple solution – attach a narrow board and put a tool on it. To make it fit comfortably, grind off 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. Cuts of various formats are made in the lower part, and the upper ones are used as ordinary shelves. The idea is that everything is in one place, quickly gets / installed in place. These homemade garage crafts will make your workplace comfortable. Keeping order will be easy.

Homemade carriers for the garage

Even with very good lighting in the garage itself or during the day on the street, visibility under the bottom of the car is very low. To illuminate the front of work, portable lamps are used – carrying. These are the simplest homemade for the garage. With them, you can start the epic of arranging and equipping the garage space.

In the simplest version, this is a cartridge attached to a wire; a small screen with a hook can be attached to it. This is such an uncomplicated thing. Light bulbs are used ordinary – incandescent or housekeeper under a standard cartridge. Everything is not bad, except that these bulbs beat very often, you need to look for how to hang them so that they shine in a specific place. In general, the design needs to be improved. There are several modification options.

Unbreakable lamp socket

This plastic bottle shade perfectly protects the fragile bulb of an energy-saving lamp. You can also use an LED lamp, but the incandescence will not work – it heats up too much. The design is ordinary – 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, a trifle remains:

• cut a window about 1/4 of the diameter of the bottle;
• cut the neck so that you can insert the lamp, but so that the screwed bulb presses it against the cartridge;
  

• assemble the design, try it out.

Everything is simple, but such a ceiling allows you to brightly illuminate exactly the right area, the rest of the space is flooded with even light that does not hurt your eyes.

Carrying out LED recessed downlight

The simplest and most common garage homemade products are portable lamps. Without them, it is inconvenient to work not only in a garage pit, but even just on a workbench. You need a flat recessed LED lamp that can be switched on at 220 V. These models are called “pills” because of their shape. You also need a cord with a plug, a piece of plastic window sill – to build in a lamp. A piece of window sill should be larger than the lamp. Choose your own dimensions. Further actions are:

• In the window sill, on one side, we cut out a circle with a diameter slightly smaller than the diameter of the lamp body.
• We remove the regular fixture of the lamp (it will be even thinner).
  

• We pass the wire through the cells of the window sill, bring it out into the hole made.
• We connect the lamp.
• Glue it to the base.
• We glue the sidewalls with strips cut off from the same window sill (you can not do it, but it’s more beautiful).
• We bend the bracket from a piece of tin, fasten it with self-tapping screws to the lamp.

Everything, homemade carrying 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, a couple of weights can be fixed inside the case (in its lower part).

Attach the carry cord to the ceiling

Conveniences are made up of little things, and very simple homemade products for the garage help in this. For example, you can remove the cable from a portable lamp that is always tangled under your feet. Carrying is usually done with a cheap cable. It is not the most flexible, does not fold well, its coils on the floor fall under your feet. In general, it is inconvenient to use. You can protect yourself and carrying – hang the cable from the ceiling. The solution is simple but very effective.

Looking for:

• Two anchors with a ring at the end.
• Cable tie.
• Clamp clamp.
• Metal cable. The length depends on the size of the garage – it is necessary from one wall to another.
• Steel/plastic rings or steel wire and a piece of pipe to make these rings.
• Carry with a long cable – its length is about twice the length of the garage.

The cable is pulled along the long side of the garage. It is more convenient – not far from the “working” wall, where a workbench or other equipment is located. Little work:

• On the ceiling on one side and on the other, at a distance of 30-50 cm from the corner, we drill a hole in the ceiling, screw in the anchor.
• On the one hand, we attach the cable to the screed.
  

• On the other hand, pulling the cable, tighten it with a clamp (it is easier for them to fix it from this side).
• We put rings on the cable – 4-6 pieces, depending on the length. If they are one-piece, they must be put on before the cable is fixed. If there are no ready-made rings, you can twist the wire around the pipe, cut the rings, then tighten them a little to make the wire “run in”.
  

• We pass the carrying cord through the rings.
• From the wire we bend the hook, which we attach to the cable. Attach a pencil to the cable, wrap the free end of the wire from the hook around it. Take out the pencil. Everything, the hook is fixed on the cable. It is convenient to hang excess wire on this hook.
  

Well, that’s all. You can use. With such a device, the carrier can be pulled to any end of the garage, while the cable does not get confused and does not cling. Convenient, takes little time.

Do-it-yourself garage compressor

A compressor is needed in any garage. And by the way, this is not the most difficult homemade for the garage. A low-power compressor for a garage for inflating tires and other small jobs can be done with your own hands from auxiliary materials. For example, from the compressor from the refrigerator. For this you will need:

• refrigerator compressor;
• a sealed container with thick walls (you can use a flask from a fire extinguisher, a small gas cylinder);
• safety valve 8 atm;
• manometer;
• fitting;
• oxygen hoses with couplings (choose the length based on the size of your spare parts);
• base for the compressor – a thick board, a piece of plywood will do.

In order not to pump any muck into the tires, it is also advisable to put a filter – to separate oils, dust and other contaminants. The diagram of a homemade compressor is shown in the photo.

The compressor must be equipped with a starting device. We plug it into the network, look into which tube air is sucked in, mark it. You can put a car filter on it – clean air will be pumped.

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. At the inlet we put a safety valve to it with the help of an oxygen hose we connect the compressor outlet.

We put another car oil filter on the outlet of the oil separator receiver – to remove the oil completely. We connect the filter to the pressure gauge, and from it comes a hose, which is connected to the bus through the appropriate adapter.

Assembly completed. But in order to carry this device comfortably, everything needs to be fixed in some way. You can weld the frame to size, attach wheels and a handle for easy transportation. One of the compressor options for pumping wheels is described in the video. There is no receiver, but the oil filter performs its functions. You can do it this way, but with a receiver, the design is more reliable.

Since the compressor in the refrigerator is small, it can take a long time to inflate the wheels. It can be made more powerful by installing two compressors that will run simultaneously. Accordingly, the pressure will build up twice as fast. But in such an installation, a more solid security group is required. Such homemade products require a little more equipment, since the circuit is still more complicated.