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Your NYC Move is Complete: Make the Ideal Workshop for All Your Projects
You’ve completed your NYC move and now you’re ready to get organized! If you are a handy man and love carpentry, woodworking, or general home improvement, then you most likely need a very organized and neat garage. Completing these types of tasks and projects will be a lot easier if all your tools and equipment have a place to call home.
Imagine having a workshop where you can locate every tool, board, jig, etc., without having to struggle finding it? Everything should be within easy reach no matter what project you are working on, whether it is machine lumbering, sanding, cutting, or assembling parts. If you are looking to create the ideal workshop from your garage for your carpentry, woodworking, or general home improvement, then check out these helpful tips from the professional moving experts, Shleppers.
Choose Storage That Fits Your Needs
Containers – Help keep similar items together and range in sizes from bins to tubs. Great for holding plumbing, electrical, and painting supplies.
Carts – Awesome for garage shops to make room for cars. Can be perfect storage for benchtop tools, table saw accessories, etc.
Cabinets – Ideal for storing portable power tools and hand tools. Base-cabinet tops can also be used as work surfaces.
Shelves – Inexpensive and easy-to-install storage option that is great for portable power tools, benchtop tools, jigs, and small containers.
Wall Racks – Perforated hardboard or wall racks are inexpensive and versatile storage alternatives for your garage tools and accessories. These are perfect for holding hand tools, power tool accessories, clamps, and more.
Organize Your Work Area
Now is the time to use this storage to divide the tools, equipment, etc. left over, into appropriate work areas.
The Workbench / Assembly Area (perfect for small-medium sized projects)
Position your workbench against a wall to open floor space for stationary tools. Utilize nearby walls to hang tools you use most often along with bins that hold screws and fasteners. Hang your favorite clamps near your workbench and add a shelf for remaining clamps, braces, glue, and clamping cauls.
TIP: Apply the 80/20 rule to your workshop…keep the 20% of tools & fasteners you use 80% of the time within arm’s reach.
Machining Area
Create a work triangle that allows you to move supplies quickly through the jointer, planer, and table saw. Place all machines on mobile bases close to the triangle to make the process easier. Next, locate places to store tool accessories. A cabinet saw with an extension table could be perfect for storing jigs, gauges, blades, and more underneath on shelves. Furthermore, you could store other accessories for a benchtop on shelves.
TIP: Place table saw, jointer, and planer within steps of each other to size and square parts quicker.
Sanding / Finishing Area
Store sanding and finishing supplies outside the immediate workshop area to open tool-storage space where you really need it. Store abrasive sheets in their sleeves and hang the packages on hooks or nails.
TIP: Make sure to leave enough room near the cabinet for a vacuum.
Remaining Storage
Divide remaining space into areas based on how frequently they are used. Store the items used most near or beneath your workbench, tools you use with medium frequency use close by, and tools you rarely use tucked away on shelves and in bins.
Rely on Local Moving Company, Shleppers
Follow these steps from New York movers, Shleppers Moving & Storage, to turn your new garage into the perfect workshop. For help with your next move, call us at 800-847-4537 or fill out a quote.