Reader Project: Handy Plywood Storage System
My garage is my workshop, and space is tight, specially for squeezing two vehicles in. I used to have plywood sheets and scraps stacked confronting the wall, and they e'er had a way of creeping outward, taking upward more flooring space, especially as more material got added to the pile, or information technology was sifted through. This outward creep made for fifty-fifty tighter parking space.
The Family Handyman reader Steve Christakis came up with this great storage idea to maximize the limited infinite in his garage.
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"My garage is my workshop, and space is tight, especially for squeezing two vehicles in. I used to have plywood sheets and scraps stacked against the wall, and they e'er had a way of creeping outward, taking upwardly more floor space, especially as more material got added to the pile. This outward pitter-patter made for even tighter parking infinite.
There'south nearly a four-in.-wide concrete ledge that runs forth the wall, a foot or so off the flooring. I built a unproblematic 2×four frame forth that ledge, lining upwardly with it, so that information technology finer extended that ledge outward to twice the width it was before. This was to form a sort of 'flooring' for stacking scraps on. I mounted a plywood sheet to the bottom of my new wood ledge using a couple hinges, and then that the sheet could swing out and in freely.
I mounted a couple 2x4s to the front the canvass, once more using hinges so that they could swing out freely. The plywood sheet at present forms a sort of 'wall' behind which scrap wood can be stored. When the sail is in its 'up' position, information technology neatly keeps all the woods in place, while simultaneously hiding it, making for a nicer, cleaner advent. The sheet can be swung outward, and the 2x4s too swing outward, forming 'legs' to hold the sheet in place. This forms a nice 5-shape behind the sail, assuasive you to fan the scraps out and easily sift through them to find what y'all're looking for. To hold the sheet in place, I came up with a elementary contraption made with wood and a hinge, and mounted to the wall, which folds down and prevents the sheet from falling outward. It folds up and out of place when you want to 'open' the sheet 'wall' up. Now, at that place is no more than outward creep, my garage looks neater and cleaner, and my parking space is preserved." — Steve
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